1,357 Quotes by George Herbert

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.

The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.

All keyes hang not on one girdle.

Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

Health without money is halfe an ague.

That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.

He that studies his content, wants it.