1,357 Quotes by George Herbert

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

A great ship asks deep water.

An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.

One stroke fells not an oke.

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]

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 may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.