Quotes from George Herbert

Money wants no followers.

The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?

Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

Gluttony kills more then the sword.

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

Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

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

Destiny is always dark.

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, — a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.