George Herbert quotes and words of wisdom

"There would be no great ones if there were no little ones."
Found in the topic War.

"The best smell is bread; the best savor, salt; the best love, that of children."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire."
Found in the topic Argument.

"The shortest answer is doing."
Found in the topic Action.

"He that knows nothing doubts nothing."
Found in the topic If.

"He that lives in hope dances without music."
Found in the topic Hope.

"Love and a cough cannot be hid."
Found in the topic Love.

"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."
Found in the topic Complacency.

"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."
Found in the topic Gains.

"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."
Found in the topic Good.

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie."
Found in the topic Spring.

"He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise."
Found in the topic Age.

"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge."
Found in the topic Neighbor.

"For want of a nail, the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost; and for want of a horse the rider is lost."
Found in the topic Loquacity.

"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Patience."
Found in the topic Patience.

"Storms make oaks take deeper root."
Found in the topic Tree.

"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one."
Found in the topic Buy.

"When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill."
Found in the topic Opportunity.

"His bark is worse than his bite."
Found in the topic Dog.

"None knows the weight of another"s burden."
Found in the topic Burden.

Interesting Quotes

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint-Exupery - French writer (1900 - 1944)