Top 70 Robert Herrick Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.”

— Robert Herrick

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2. “Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may...”

— Robert Herrick

3. “Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.”

— Robert Herrick

4. “A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.”

— Robert Herrick

5. “Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.”

— Robert Herrick

6. “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.”

— Robert Herrick

7. “Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.”

— Robert Herrick

8. “It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”

— Robert Herrick

9. “Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.”

— Robert Herrick

10. “Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It’s not the fight that crowns us, but the end.”

— Robert Herrick

11. “So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let’s go a Maying.”

— Robert Herrick

12. “Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.”

— Robert Herrick

13. “Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.”

— Robert Herrick

14. “But ne’er the rose without the thorn.”

— Robert Herrick

15. “Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

— Robert Herrick

16. “He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.”

— Robert Herrick

17. “Let’s live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.”

— Robert Herrick

18. “Necessity makes dastards valiant men.”

— Robert Herrick

19. “Whatever comes, let’s be content withal; Among God’s blessings there is not one small.”

— Robert Herrick

20. “Fain would I kiss my Julia’s dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.”

— Robert Herrick

21. “Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.”

— Robert Herrick

22. “Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.”

— Robert Herrick

23. “A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.”

— Robert Herrick

24. “Tears are the noble language of the eye.”

— Robert Herrick

25. “Who covets more is evermore a slave.”

— Robert Herrick

26. “In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.”

— Robert Herrick

27. “O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine.”

— Robert Herrick

28. “In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.”

— Robert Herrick

29. “Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table’s merriment.”

— Robert Herrick

30. “Roses at first were white, Till thy co’d not agree, Whether my Sapho’s breast, Or they more white sho’d be.”

— Robert Herrick

31. “The body is the soul’s poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.”

— Robert Herrick

32. “Know when to speak – for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.”

— Robert Herrick

33. “None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.”

— Robert Herrick

34. “Thou art my life, my love, my heart, the very eyes of me, And hast command of every part to live and die for thee.”

— Robert Herrick

35. “Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.”

— Robert Herrick

36. “What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.”

— Robert Herrick

37. “The person lives twice who lives the first life well.”

— Robert Herrick

38. “Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.”

— Robert Herrick

39. “Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”

— Robert Herrick

40. “Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.”

— Robert Herrick

41. “Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.”

— Robert Herrick

42. “In vain our labours are, whatsoe’er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.”

— Robert Herrick

43. “Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.”

— Robert Herrick

44. “The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer’s willingnesse.”

— Robert Herrick

45. “My soul I’ll pour into thee.”

— Robert Herrick

46. “It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.”

— Robert Herrick

47. “Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o’ercome When no force else can get the masterdom.”

— Robert Herrick

48. “What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown’d, where late they danc’d before.”

— Robert Herrick

49. “Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.”

— Robert Herrick

50. “Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.”

— Robert Herrick