Top 500 George Herbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

454. “To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

461. “He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.”

— George Herbert

462. “Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

464. “Let none say, I will not drinke water.”

— George Herbert

465. “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

466. “To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

473. “Who gives to all, denies all.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

475. “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

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

— George Herbert

477. “Nothing secure unlesse suspected.”

— George Herbert

478. “Weening is not measure.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

483. “Reason and speech we onely bring.”

— George Herbert

484. “One sword keeps another in the sheath.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

486. “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

487. “One mouth doth nothing without another.”

— George Herbert

488. “Craft against craft makes no living.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

492. “Never had ill workeman good tooles.”

— George Herbert

493. “Feare nothing but sinne.”

— George Herbert

494. “A dead Bee maketh no Hony.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

496. “Great strokes make not sweete musick.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

499. “The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.”

— George Herbert

500. “Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.”

— George Herbert