Top 500 George Herbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Building is a sweet impoverishing.”

— George Herbert

452. “To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.”

— George Herbert

453. “There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.”

— George Herbert

454. “Covetousnesse breaks the bag.”

— George Herbert

455. “Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.”

— George Herbert

456. “Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.”

— George Herbert

457. “The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.”

— George Herbert

458. “We must love, as looking one day to hate.”

— George Herbert

459. “When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.”

— George Herbert

460. “Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.”

— George Herbert

461. “They that know one another salute a farre off.”

— George Herbert

462. “That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.”

— George Herbert

463. “When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.”

— George Herbert

464. “He that contemplates hath a day without night.”

— George Herbert

465. “A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.”

— George Herbert

466. “Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.”

— George Herbert

467. “A hatt is not made for one shower.”

— George Herbert

468. “Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.”

— George Herbert

469. “The goate must browse where she is tyed.”

— George Herbert

470. “Who gives to all, denies all.”

— George Herbert

471. “To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.”

— George Herbert

472. “Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.”

— George Herbert

473. “Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.”

— George Herbert

474. “Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.”

— George Herbert

475. “To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.”

— George Herbert

476. “Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.”

— George Herbert

477. “He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.”

— George Herbert

478. “All are presumed good till they are found at fault.”

— George Herbert

479. “Never had ill workeman good tooles.”

— George Herbert

480. “Feare nothing but sinne.”

— George Herbert

481. “A dead Bee maketh no Hony.”

— George Herbert

482. “When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.”

— George Herbert

483. “The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.”

— George Herbert

484. “Nothing secure unlesse suspected.”

— George Herbert

485. “Weening is not measure.”

— George Herbert

486. “Working and making a fire doth discretion require.”

— George Herbert

487. “Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.”

— George Herbert

488. “We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.”

— George Herbert

489. “Reason and speech we onely bring.”

— George Herbert

490. “The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn’d.”

— George Herbert

491. “O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin’d With his desires!”

— George Herbert

492. “One mouth doth nothing without another.”

— George Herbert

493. “Craft against craft makes no living.”

— George Herbert

494. “That’s the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.”

— George Herbert

495. “The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.”

— George Herbert

496. “Conversation makes one what he is.”

— George Herbert

497. “Hee stands not surely, that never slips.”

— George Herbert

498. “Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.”

— George Herbert

499. “Great strokes make not sweete musick.”

— George Herbert

500. “Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.”

— George Herbert