Top 500 George Herbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

303. “Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.”

— George Herbert

304. “A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.”

— George Herbert

305. “It is a great victory that comes without blood.”

— George Herbert

306. “Could have recovered greenness?”

— George Herbert

307. “Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.”

— George Herbert

308. “You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.”

— George Herbert

309. “God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.”

— George Herbert

310. “None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.”

— George Herbert

311. “Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.”

— George Herbert

312. “Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.”

— George Herbert

313. “You may be on land, yet not in a garden.”

— George Herbert

314. “Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

316. “Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.”

— George Herbert

317. “Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.”

— George Herbert

318. “A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.”

— George Herbert

319. “Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?”

— George Herbert

320. “An idle head is a boxe for the winde.”

— George Herbert

321. “When God will, no winde but brings raine.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

323. “Send not a Catt for Lard.”

— George Herbert

324. “Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.”

— George Herbert

325. “Hast comes not alone.”

— George Herbert

326. “When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, ‘Let us,‘said he,‘pour on him all we can: Let the world’s riches, which disperse’ d lie, Contract into a span’.”

— George Herbert

327. “A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.”

— George Herbert

328. “Dogs are fine in the field.”

— George Herbert

329. “God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.”

— George Herbert

330. “There is no body will go to hell for company.”

— George Herbert

331. “True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.”

— George Herbert

332. “There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.”

— George Herbert

333. “Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.”

— George Herbert

334. “The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

336. “All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.”

— George Herbert

337. “He that sowes trusts in God.”

— George Herbert

338. “The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.”

— George Herbert

339. “By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.”

— George Herbert

340. “Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.”

— George Herbert

341. “The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.”

— George Herbert

342. “Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.”

— George Herbert

343. “Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.”

— George Herbert

344. “Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.”

— George Herbert

345. “The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.”

— George Herbert

346. “The first and last frosts are the worst.”

— George Herbert

347. “Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?”

— George Herbert

348. “No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.”

— George Herbert

349. “An old cat sports not with her prey.”

— George Herbert

350. “The tongue talkes at the heads cost.”

— George Herbert