Quotes from George Herbert

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

Health and mony goe farre. [Health and money go far.]

Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.