Quote

Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

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
World
Carpenters
Crutches
Carpenter
Bone
Bones
Make
Would

More quotes by George Herbert

Image
Little losses amaze, great tame.
George Herbert
Image
Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.
George Herbert
Image
To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
George Herbert
Image
If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!
George Herbert
Image
He that sends a foole expects one.
George Herbert
Image
God oft hath a great share in a little house.
George Herbert
Image
Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee
George Herbert
Image
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
George Herbert
Image
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
George Herbert
Image
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
George Herbert
Image
Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
George Herbert
Image
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
Image
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
George Herbert
Image
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
George Herbert
Image
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
George Herbert
Image
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]
George Herbert
Image
There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.
George Herbert
Image
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
George Herbert
Image
Take the gentle path.
George Herbert
Image
Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.
George Herbert