"Tears are the noble language of eyes, and……" — Robert Herrick
"Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute."
—
Robert Herrick
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
78 Quotes by Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick has 78 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
-
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
-
Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers…
-
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
-
Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift…
-
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
-
Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips…
-
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
-
I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
-
My soul I'll pour into thee.
-
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
-
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
See all 78 quotes by Robert Herrick »
More Destitute Quotes
This quote is filed under Destitute Quotes,
one of 79 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
— Ambrose Bierce
-
I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
— Charlie Chaplin
-
It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty…
— Peter du Moulin
-
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
-
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the…
— Charles Dickens
-
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to…
— Thomas Berry
-
I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not…
— Thomas Paine
-
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing…
— Samuel Chadwick
-
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down…
— Thomas Berry
-
I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then…
— Mother Teresa
-
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived…
— Ambrose Bierce
See all 79 Destitute Quotes »