Top 500 George Herbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.”

— George Herbert

252. “Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.”

— George Herbert

253. “A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.”

— George Herbert

254. “Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.”

— George Herbert

255. “Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.”

— George Herbert

256. “One slumber finds another.”

— George Herbert

257. “On a good bargain think twice.”

— George Herbert

258. “Be useful where thou livest.”

— George Herbert

259. “He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.”

— George Herbert

260. “Jest not with the eye or with Religion.”

— George Herbert

261. “All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.”

— George Herbert

262. “A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th’action fine.”

— George Herbert

263. “Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.”

— George Herbert

264. “He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.”

— George Herbert

265. “A full belly neither fights nor flies well.”

— George Herbert

266. “Water a farre off quencheth not fire.”

— George Herbert

267. “By all means use sometimes to be alone.”

— George Herbert

268. “Better a snotty child, then his nose wip’d off.”

— George Herbert

269. “Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.”

— George Herbert

270. “To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.”

— George Herbert

271. “Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.”

— George Herbert

272. “Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.”

— George Herbert

273. “Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.”

— George Herbert

274. “A little and good fills the trencher.”

— George Herbert

275. “Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.”

— George Herbert

276. “Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.”

— George Herbert

277. “He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.”

— George Herbert

278. “Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.”

— George Herbert

279. “My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.”

— George Herbert

280. “The bird loves her nest.”

— George Herbert

281. “Let thy mind’s sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.”

— George Herbert

282. “The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman’s name.”

— George Herbert

283. “Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.”

— George Herbert

284. “Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.”

— George Herbert

285. “Good is the mora that makes all sure.”

— George Herbert

286. “The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.”

— George Herbert

287. “Forbeare not sowing because of birds.”

— George Herbert

288. “It’s not good fishing before the net.”

— George Herbert

289. “A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.”

— George Herbert

290. “Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.”

— George Herbert

291. “Water trotted is as good as oates.”

— George Herbert

292. “The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.”

— George Herbert

293. “Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.”

— George Herbert

294. “Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.”

— George Herbert

295. “Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing.”

— George Herbert

296. “A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.”

— George Herbert

297. “A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.”

— George Herbert

298. “An upbraided morsell never choaked any.”

— George Herbert

299. “When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.”

— George Herbert

300. “A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.”

— George Herbert