1,357 Quotes by George Herbert

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Be useful where thou livest.

Rise, heart; Thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise / Without delays, / Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise / With him mayst rise; / That, as His death calcined thee to dust, / His life make thee gold, and, much more, just.

Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

He that is surprised with the first frost feels it all the winter after.

The Fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe.

The mouse that hath but one hole is taken quickly.

He who can not forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

No man can lose what he never had.