Ill Quotes by George Herbert

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

— George Herbert

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

— George Herbert

To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.

— George Herbert

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

— George Herbert

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

— George Herbert

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

— George Herbert

Never had ill workeman good tooles.

— George Herbert

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

— George Herbert

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

— George Herbert

An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

— George Herbert

The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.

— George Herbert

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

— George Herbert

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

— George Herbert

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

— George Herbert

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

— George Herbert

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is…

— George Herbert

Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

— George Herbert

Two ill meales make the third a glutton.

— George Herbert

Every ill man hath his ill day.

— George Herbert

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

— George Herbert

Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]

— George Herbert

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

— George Herbert

It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

— George Herbert

He that makes his bed ill, lies there.

— George Herbert

Fine words dresse ill deedes.

— George Herbert

Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.

— George Herbert

Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.

— George Herbert

The way is an ill neighbour.

— George Herbert

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

— George Herbert

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

— George Herbert

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

— George Herbert

Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.

— George Herbert

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

— George Herbert

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

— George Herbert

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

— George Herbert

In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.

— George Herbert

It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]

— George Herbert

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

— George Herbert

He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

— George Herbert

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than…

— George Herbert