Quote

A blustering night, a faire day. [A blustering night, a fair day.]

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
Fairs
Fair
Night
Blustering
Faire

More quotes by George Herbert

Image
Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.
George Herbert
Image
A child correct behind and not before.
George Herbert
Image
A pittifull mother makes a scald head.
George Herbert
Image
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
George Herbert
Image
A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.
George Herbert
Image
When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.
George Herbert
Image
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.
George Herbert
Image
Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.
George Herbert
Image
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.
George Herbert
Image
A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
George Herbert
Image
Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
George Herbert
Image
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
George Herbert
Image
The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).
George Herbert
Image
True praise rootes and spreedes.
George Herbert
Image
Sink not in spirit who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
George Herbert
Image
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
George Herbert
Image
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
George Herbert
Image
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
George Herbert
Image
Who hastens a glutton choakes him.
George Herbert
Image
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
George Herbert