Quotes from George Herbert

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

A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

Night is the mother of counsels.

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

Pleasing ware is half sold.

One flower makes no garland.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Night is the mother of Councels.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

Three women make a market.

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

Words are women, deeds are men.

Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.