Quote

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.

Robert Herrick

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Hundred
Funny
Give
Score
Giving
Kiss
Add
Twenty
Twenties
Kissing

More quotes by Robert Herrick

Image
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
Robert Herrick
Image
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
Robert Herrick
Image
Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
Robert Herrick
Image
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Robert Herrick
Image
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Herrick
Image
The person lives twice who lives the first life well
Robert Herrick
Image
Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
Robert Herrick
Image
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
Robert Herrick
Image
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Robert Herrick
Image
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
Robert Herrick
Image
T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
Robert Herrick
Image
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
Robert Herrick
Image
Give house-room to the best 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
Robert Herrick
Image
Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
Robert Herrick
Image
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Robert Herrick
Image
But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
Robert Herrick
Image
Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift 'T is haste Makes waste Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.
Robert Herrick
Image
Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
Image
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
Robert Herrick
Image
A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
Robert Herrick