Love Quotes by George Herbert

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

— George Herbert

That is gold which is worth gold.

— George Herbert

Love makes one fitt for any work.

— George Herbert

Pleasing ware is half sold.

— George Herbert

He that respects not is not respected.

— George Herbert

The bird loves her nest.

— George Herbert

To bee beloved is above all bargaines.

— George Herbert

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

— George Herbert

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

— George Herbert

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

— George Herbert

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

— George Herbert

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

— George Herbert

The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

— George Herbert

He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.

— George Herbert

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

— George Herbert

Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

— George Herbert

The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What…

— George Herbert

“I will complain, yet praise; I will bewail, approve: And all my sowre-sweet dayes I will lament, and love.”

— George Herbert

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

— George Herbert

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

— George Herbert

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.

— George Herbert

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

— George Herbert

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

— George Herbert

Where there is peace, God is.

— George Herbert

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

— George Herbert

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

— George Herbert

Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.

— George Herbert

After so many deaths I live and write;

— George Herbert

A good digestion turneth all to health.

— George Herbert

Stay a little and news will find you.

— George Herbert

Good and quickly seldom meet.

— George Herbert

When war begins, then hell openeth.

— George Herbert

Destiny is always dark.

— George Herbert

A good heart cannot lye

— George Herbert

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

— George Herbert

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

— George Herbert

Love is not found in the market.

— George Herbert

Could have recovered greenness?

— George Herbert