George Herbert Quotes
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Living well is the best revenge.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
Never was a miser a brave soul.
Night is the mother of counsels.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Spend not on hopes.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
