Men Quotes by George Herbert · Page 2

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

— George Herbert

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

— George Herbert

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

— George Herbert

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

— George Herbert

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

— George Herbert

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

— George Herbert

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from…

— George Herbert

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and…

— George Herbert

The cholerick man never wants woe.

— George Herbert

No naked man is sought after to be rifled.

— George Herbert

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

— George Herbert

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

— George Herbert

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

— George Herbert

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

— George Herbert

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

— George Herbert

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

— 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

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

— George Herbert

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]

— George Herbert

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

— George Herbert

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot…

— George Herbert

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

— George Herbert

Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]

— George Herbert

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh;…

— George Herbert

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd…

— George Herbert

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a…

— George Herbert

Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy…

— George Herbert

Man is all symmetry Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides; Each part may call…

— George Herbert

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground…

— George Herbert

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom…

— George Herbert

The life of man is a winter way.

— George Herbert

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

— George Herbert

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

— George Herbert

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

— George Herbert

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

— George Herbert

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

— George Herbert

There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

— George Herbert

Words are women, deeds are men.

— George Herbert

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

— George Herbert