Words matter. These are the best George Herbert Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
The offender never pardons.
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
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.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
The shortest answer is doing.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
