Quote

The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.

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
Doth
Shut
Open
Else
Nothing

More quotes by George Herbert

Image
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
George Herbert
Image
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
George Herbert
Image
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
George Herbert
Image
Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
George Herbert
Image
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
George Herbert
Image
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
George Herbert
Image
To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).
George Herbert
Image
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert
Image
Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.
George Herbert
Image
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
George Herbert
Image
Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.
George Herbert
Image
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
George Herbert
Image
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
George Herbert
Image
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.
George Herbert
Image
He that believes all misseth he that believes nothing, hits not.
George Herbert
Image
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
George Herbert
Image
Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.
George Herbert
Image
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
George Herbert
Image
Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
George Herbert
Image
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.
George Herbert