179 Quotes by Robert Herrick

Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.