George Herbert Quotes

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Every mile is two in winter

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

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

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,For thou must die.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

Better never begin than never make an end.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.