Quotes from George Herbert

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

At dinner my man appeares.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]