Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
George Herbert
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
Cleric
Poet
Politician
Priest
Writer
Montgomery
Powys
Laugh
Married
Laughing
Heart
Men
Shew
Till
Teeth
Hearts
More quotes by George Herbert
It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.
George Herbert
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.]
George Herbert
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.
George Herbert
Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.
George Herbert
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
George Herbert
Many friends in generall, one in speciall.
George Herbert
Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.
George Herbert
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
George Herbert
In every country dogges bite.
George Herbert
He that studies his content, wants it.
George Herbert
To bee beloved is above all bargaines.
George Herbert
Take the gentle path.
George Herbert
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven for everyone has need to be forgiven.
George Herbert
Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.
George Herbert
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
George Herbert
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
George Herbert
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
George Herbert
The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).
George Herbert
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
George Herbert
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.
George Herbert
