1,357 Quotes by George Herbert

It is better to have wings then hornes.

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.

Feare nothing but sinne.

Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.