Top 500 George Herbert Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Living well is the best revenge.”

— George Herbert

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2. “He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”

— George Herbert

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3. “Where there is peace, God is.”

— George Herbert

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4. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

— George Herbert

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5. “Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.”

— George Herbert

6. “Love and a cough cannot be hid.”

— George Herbert

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7. “Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.”

— George Herbert

8. “Good words are worth much, and cost little.”

— George Herbert

9. “A bad workman quarrels with his tools.”

— George Herbert

10. “Step by step the ladder is ascended.”

— George Herbert

11. “Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.”

— George Herbert

12. “God’s mill grinds slow, but sure.”

— George Herbert

13. “The best mirror is an old friend.”

— George Herbert

14. “Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.”

— George Herbert

15. “God sees hearts as we see faces.”

— George Herbert

16. “Show me a liar, and I’ll show you a thief.”

— George Herbert

17. “A great ship asks deep water.”

— George Herbert

18. “One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth three after.”

— George Herbert

19. “Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.”

— George Herbert

20. “Sometimes the best gain is to lose.”

— George Herbert

21. “In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.”

— George Herbert

22. “Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.”

— George Herbert

23. “Lend only what you can afford to lose.”

— George Herbert

24. “Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.”

— George Herbert

25. “None knows the weight of another’s burden.”

— George Herbert

26. “Be thrifty, but not covetous.”

— George Herbert

27. “There’s no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.”

— George Herbert

28. “Death keeps no calendar.”

— George Herbert

29. “The Law is not the same at morning and at night.”

— George Herbert

30. “When war begins, then hell openeth.”

— George Herbert

31. “He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.”

— George Herbert

32. “Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”

— George Herbert

33. “If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.”

— George Herbert

34. “Three women make a market.”

— George Herbert

35. “Do well and right and let the world sink.”

— George Herbert

36. “He that steals an egg will steal an ox.”

— George Herbert

37. “The eyes have one language everywhere.”

— George Herbert

38. “Little wealth, little care.”

— George Herbert

39. “Good service is a great inchantment.”

— George Herbert

40. “Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee.”

— George Herbert

41. “The shortest answer is doing.”

— George Herbert

42. “Where your will is ready, your feet are light.”

— George Herbert

43. “Hope is the poor man’s bread.”

— George Herbert

44. “Time is the rider that breaks youth.”

— George Herbert

45. “A good digestion turneth all to health.”

— George Herbert

46. “Thursday come, and the week’s gone.”

— George Herbert

47. “All truths are not to be told.”

— George Herbert

48. “The life of spies is to know, not bee known.”

— George Herbert

49. “War makes thieves and peace hangs them.”

— George Herbert

50. “An Idle youth, a needy Age.”

— George Herbert