George Herbert Quotes

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

"Living well is the best revenge."

"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."

"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."

"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."

"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."

"Life is half spent before we know what it is."

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"Good words are worth much, and cost little."

"None knows the weight of another's burden."

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread."

"One sword keeps another in the sheath."

"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."

"The shortest answer is doing."

"He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea."

"Many kiss the hand they wish cut off."

"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee."

"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

"There would be no great men if there were no little ones."

"The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken."

"Love and a cough cannot be hid."

"You must lose a fly to catch a trout."

"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."

"Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health."

"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."

"If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him."

"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one."