Top 500 George Herbert Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Good is god, but better carries it.”

— George Herbert

52. “The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.”

— George Herbert

53. “A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.”

— George Herbert

54. “The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.”

— George Herbert

55. “Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.”

— George Herbert

56. “To him that will, waies are not wanting.”

— George Herbert

57. “Good land, evill way.”

— George Herbert

58. “The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.”

— George Herbert

59. “Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.”

— George Herbert

60. “A snow year, a rich year.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

62. “If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.”

— George Herbert

63. “The resolved mind hath no cares.”

— George Herbert

64. “When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.”

— George Herbert

65. “Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.”

— George Herbert

66. “Wealth is the Conjurer’s Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.”

— George Herbert

67. “Drought never brought dearth.”

— George Herbert

68. “Let anger’s fire be slow to burn.”

— George Herbert

69. “God provides for him that trusteth.”

— George Herbert

70. “Everyone is a master and servant.”

— George Herbert

71. “The chicken is the country’s, but the city eats it.”

— George Herbert

72. “When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.”

— George Herbert

73. “To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.”

— George Herbert

74. “Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.”

— George Herbert

75. “Love makes a good eye squint.”

— George Herbert

76. “Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.”

— George Herbert

77. “A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.”

— George Herbert

78. “Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.”

— George Herbert

79. “A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.”

— George Herbert

80. “Words are women, deeds are men.”

— George Herbert

81. “Love makes all hard hearts gentle.”

— George Herbert

82. “Words and feathers the wind carries away.”

— George Herbert

83. “He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.”

— George Herbert

84. “Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.”

— George Herbert

85. “The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.”

— George Herbert

86. “Beauty draws more than oxen.”

— George Herbert

87. “The wind in ones face makes one wise.”

— George Herbert

88. “You must lose a fly to catch a trout.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

90. “Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.”

— George Herbert

91. “Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.”

— George Herbert

92. “It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.”

— George Herbert

93. “Man Proposeth, God disposeth.”

— George Herbert

94. “An old friend is a new house.”

— George Herbert

95. “A penny spar’d is twice got.”

— George Herbert

96. “Who would have thought my shrivel’d heart could have recovered greenness?”

— George Herbert

97. “Patience, time and money accommodate all things.”

— George Herbert

98. “Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.”

— George Herbert

99. “Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.”

— George Herbert

100. “Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.”

— George Herbert