Quote

Better to be blinde, then to see ill.

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
Ill
Better

More quotes by George Herbert

Image
Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.
George Herbert
Image
Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?
George Herbert
Image
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
George Herbert
Image
The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.
George Herbert
Image
Love and businesse teach eloquence.
George Herbert
Image
Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.
George Herbert
Image
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
George Herbert
Image
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
George Herbert
Image
It's not good fishing before the net.
George Herbert
Image
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.
George Herbert
Image
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
George Herbert
Image
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]
George Herbert
Image
Advise none to marry or go to war.
George Herbert
Image
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
George Herbert
Image
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
George Herbert
Image
I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.
George Herbert
Image
Short boughs, long vintage.
George Herbert
Image
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
George Herbert
Image
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
George Herbert
Image
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
George Herbert