1,357 Quotes by George Herbert

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

Good is god, but better carries it.

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.

To a great night, a great Lanthorne.

The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.