The 1240+ George Herbert Quotes

Play Not For Gain, But Sport. Who Plays For More Than He Can Lose With Pleasure, Stakes His Heart; Perhaps His Wife's Too, And Whom She Hath Bore.

The Drunkard Forfeits Man And Doth Divest All Wordly Right, Save What He Hath By Beast.

Quick Believers Need Broad Shoulders.

In Thy Discourse, If Thou Desire To Please; All Such Is Courteous, Useful, New, Or Wittie: Usefulness Comes By Labour, Wit Byease; Courtesie Grows In Court; News In The Citie.

He--the Country Parson--is Not Witty Or Learned Or Eloquent, But Holy.

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.

Who Shuts His Hand Has Lost His Gold, Who Opens It Hath It Twice Told.

The Jews Spend At Easter.

The Smith And His Penny Both Are Black.

The Wolf Must Die In His Own Skin.

Better A Barefoot Than None.

Man Is All Symmetry, Full Of Proportions, One Limb To Another.