Top 500 George Herbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

357. “Armour is light at table.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

359. “A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.”

— George Herbert

360. “Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.”

— George Herbert

361. “Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

363. “A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.”

— George Herbert

364. “Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

366. “Every one is witty for his owne purpose.”

— George Herbert

367. “At dinner my man appeares.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

369. “Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.”

— George Herbert

370. “Good words quench more then a bucket of water.”

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

373. “A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.”

— George Herbert

374. “Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.”

— George Herbert

375. “Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.”

— George Herbert

376. “Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.”

— George Herbert

377. “Love makes one fitt for any work.”

— George Herbert

378. “The eye will have his part.”

— George Herbert

379. “Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.”

— George Herbert

380. “Some evils are cured by contempt.”

— George Herbert

381. “Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!”

— George Herbert

382. “Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.”

— George Herbert

383. “Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.”

— George Herbert

384. “Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.”

— George Herbert

385. “The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.”

— George Herbert

386. “We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.”

— George Herbert

387. “The great would have none great and the little all little.”

— George Herbert

388. “The smith and his penny both are black.”

— George Herbert

389. “When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.”

— George Herbert

390. “Would you know what money is, go borrow some.”

— George Herbert

391. “If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.”

— George Herbert

392. “There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.”

— George Herbert

393. “A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.”

— George Herbert

394. “Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.”

— George Herbert

395. “Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.”

— George Herbert

396. “He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.”

— George Herbert

397. “Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.”

— George Herbert

398. “Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.”

— George Herbert

399. “Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.”

— George Herbert

400. “The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.”

— George Herbert