George Herbert Quotes:
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
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
George Herbert
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
George Herbert
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
George Herbert
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
George Herbert
Better never begin than never make an end.
George Herbert
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
George Herbert
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
George Herbert
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
George Herbert
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
The offender never pardons.
George Herbert
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
George Herbert
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
George Herbert
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
George Herbert
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert
He that no leisure who uset it not.
George Herbert
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George Herbert
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
George Herbert
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert