Quote

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

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
Mill
Mills
Wind
Cannot
Make

More quotes by George Herbert

Image
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
George Herbert
Image
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.
George Herbert
Image
Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.
George Herbert
Image
The morning Sunne never lasts a day.
George Herbert
Image
A child correct behind and not before.
George Herbert
Image
Promising is the eve of giving.
George Herbert
Image
Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.
George Herbert
Image
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
George Herbert
Image
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.
George Herbert
Image
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
George Herbert
Image
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
George Herbert
Image
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
George Herbert
Image
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
George Herbert
Image
Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.
George Herbert
Image
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
George Herbert
Image
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
George Herbert
Image
The house shows the owner.
George Herbert
Image
It's good tying the sack before it be full.
George Herbert
Image
None is offended but by himselfe.
George Herbert
Image
God sends a curst cow short horns.
George Herbert