George Herbert Quotes

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George Herbert

Profession : Poet

Birth : April 3, 1593

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.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

George Herbert

None knows the weight of another's burden.

George Herbert

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

George Herbert

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

George Herbert