Top 500 George Herbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— George Herbert

103. “Love is not found in the market.”

— George Herbert

104. “I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.”

— George Herbert

105. “Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.”

— George Herbert

106. “To a good spender God is the Treasurer.”

— George Herbert

107. “The life of man is a winter way.”

— George Herbert

108. “You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.”

— George Herbert

109. “The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.”

— George Herbert

110. “A gift much expected is paid, not given.”

— George Herbert

111. “The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.”

— George Herbert

112. “Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.”

— George Herbert

113. “God sends cold according to clothes.”

— George Herbert

114. “The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?”

— George Herbert

115. “By doing nothing we learne to do ill.”

— George Herbert

116. “Never was a miser a brave soul.”

— George Herbert

117. “A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the further of the two.”

— George Herbert

118. “Never was strumpet faire.”

— George Herbert

119. “Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.”

— George Herbert

120. “For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.”

— George Herbert

121. “If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.”

— George Herbert

122. “Better never begin than never make an end.”

— George Herbert

123. “Give loosers leave to talke.”

— George Herbert

124. “Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.”

— George Herbert

125. “You cannot flea a stone.”

— George Herbert

126. “The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.”

— George Herbert

127. “The way is an ill neighbour.”

— George Herbert

128. “Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.”

— George Herbert

129. “Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.”

— George Herbert

130. “In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”

— George Herbert

131. “He hath no leisure who useth it not.”

— George Herbert

132. “The House shewes the owner.”

— George Herbert

133. “Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.”

— George Herbert

134. “Castles are Forrests of stones.”

— George Herbert

135. “He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.”

— George Herbert

136. “Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.”

— George Herbert

137. “In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before.”

— George Herbert

138. “A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.”

— George Herbert

139. “To bee beloved is above all bargaines.”

— George Herbert

140. “Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.”

— George Herbert

141. “Talking payes no toll.”

— George Herbert

142. “Prosperity lets goe the bridle.”

— George Herbert

143. “The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.”

— George Herbert

144. “A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.”

— George Herbert

145. “Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame, Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor. It is most just to throw that on the ground, Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.”

— George Herbert

146. “Quick believers need broad shoulders.”

— George Herbert

147. “Let all live as they would die.”

— George Herbert

148. “Many things are lost for want of asking.”

— George Herbert

149. “Short boughs, long vintage.”

— George Herbert

150. “Help thyself, and God will help thee.”

— George Herbert