George Herbert Quotes

196. Hee that lookes not before finds himself behind.

404. One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

He makes flat war with God, and doth defy With his poor clod of earth the spacious sky.

138. Well may hee smell fire whose gowne burnes.

966. With customes wee live well, but lawes undoe us.

When once your foot enters the church, be bare.
God is more there, than thou: for thou art there
Only by his permission. Then beware,
And make thyself all reverence and fear.
Kneeling ne’er spoil’d silk stocking: quit thy state
All equal are within the church’s gate.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

891. Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.

[ Some had rather lose their friend then their jest. ]

[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]

Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?

345. He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.

499. Gluttony kills more then the sword.

Prosperity lets go the bridle.

Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner.