Men Quotes by George Herbert · Page 2

Words are women, deeds are men.

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

— George Herbert

Every ill man hath his ill day.

— George Herbert

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

— George Herbert

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

— George Herbert

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a…

— George Herbert

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing…

— George Herbert

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare…

— 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 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

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

— George Herbert

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

— George Herbert

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

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

— George Herbert

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

— George Herbert