George Herbert famous quotes

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
-- George Herbert

#Love #Heart #Easy

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
-- George Herbert

#Prayer #Night #Keys

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!
-- George Herbert

#Thanksgiving #Gratitude #Grateful

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
-- George Herbert

#Relationship #Forgiveness #Faith

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
-- George Herbert

#Roots #Challenges #Storm

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
-- George Herbert

#Relationship #Daughter #Fathers Day

Where there is peace, God is.
-- George Herbert

#Life

The best mirror is an old friend.
-- George Herbert

#Mirrors #Old Friends

Good words are worth much, and cost little.
-- George Herbert

#Encouragement #Positivity #Cheerful

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
-- George Herbert

#Life #Bad Ass #Reality

The eyes have one language everywhere.
-- George Herbert

#Eye #Vision #Language

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

#Beauty #Wise #Wisdom

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
-- George Herbert

#Inspirational #Sports #Confidence

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
-- George Herbert

#War #Art Of War #Thieves

Storms make oaks take deeper root.
-- George Herbert

#Roots #Storm #Deeper

Woe be to him that reads but one book.
-- George Herbert

#Book #Reading #Statistics

Every mile is two in winter
-- George Herbert

#Life #Winter #Two

The offender never pardons.
-- George Herbert

#Forgiveness #Pardon

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
-- George Herbert

#Mother #Good Mother

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
-- George Herbert

#Worry #Debt #Pay

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

#Mistake #Digestion #Language

God sees hearts as we see faces.
-- George Herbert

#Disappointment #Heart #Faces

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
-- George Herbert

#Fathers Day #Son #Enough

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
-- George Herbert

#Memories #Men #Rocks

Many things are lost for want of asking.
-- George Herbert

#Asking #Want #Losing

By all means use sometimes to be alone.
-- George Herbert

#Mean #Solitude #Use

Death used to be an executioner, but the resurrection of Christ makes him nothing but a gardener. When he tries to bury you, he's really planting you, and you're going to come up better than before.
-- George Herbert

#Trying #Resurrection #Christ

Help thyself, and God will help thee.
-- George Herbert

#Helping #Thee #Gods Will

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
-- George Herbert

#Compromise #Fats

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
-- George Herbert

#Atheist #Atheism #Devil

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
-- George Herbert

#Feet #Deception #Physicians

Love and a cough cannot be hid.
-- George Herbert

#Love #Valentines Day #Funny Valentines Day

Night is the mother of counsels.
-- George Herbert

#Mother #Night #Express Yourself

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
-- George Herbert

#Literature #Force #Gentle

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
-- George Herbert

#Sweet #Spring #Lying

The shortest answer is doing.
-- George Herbert

#Life #Answers #Action

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
-- George Herbert

#Inspiration #Greatness #Cynical

Every path hath a puddle.
-- George Herbert

#Adversity #Puddles #Path

Time is the rider that breaks youth.
-- George Herbert

#Time #Youth #Break

All things require skill but an appetite.
-- George Herbert

#Food #Skills #Appetite

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
-- George Herbert

#Good Life #Happy Life #Life Is

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
-- George Herbert

#May #Lists #Peppers

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

#Wine #Friendship Love #Taste

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
-- George Herbert

#Surprise

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
-- George Herbert

#Wise #Men #Care

Take the gentle path.
-- George Herbert

#Healing #Path #Gentle

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
-- George Herbert

#Medical

A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.
-- George Herbert

#Health #Feet #Long