Quote

A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.

George Herbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
Cleric
Poet
Politician
Priest
Writer
Montgomery
Powys
Scepter
Another
Thing

More quotes by George Herbert

Image
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]
George Herbert
Image
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.
George Herbert
Image
I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]
George Herbert
Image
There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
George Herbert
Image
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
George Herbert
Image
In time comes he whom God sends.
George Herbert
Image
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
George Herbert
Image
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]
George Herbert
Image
God sends a curst cow short horns.
George Herbert
Image
To a boiling pot flies come not.
George Herbert
Image
Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
George Herbert
Image
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.
George Herbert
Image
He that lends, gives.
George Herbert
Image
Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.
George Herbert
Image
Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.
George Herbert
Image
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
George Herbert
Image
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
George Herbert
Image
Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.
George Herbert
Image
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
George Herbert
Image
He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]
George Herbert