A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
– George Herbert
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
– George Herbert
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
– George Herbert
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
– George Herbert
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
– George Herbert
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
– George Herbert
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
– George Herbert
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
– George Herbert
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
– George Herbert
He that lives in hope danceth without musick.
– George Herbert
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
– George Herbert
HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose.
– George Herbert
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
– George Herbert
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
– George Herbert
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
– George Herbert
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
– George Herbert
Never was a miser a brave soul.
– George Herbert
Night is the mother of counsels.
– George Herbert
None knows the weight of another's burden.
– George Herbert
O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful heart.
– George Herbert
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
– George Herbert
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
– George Herbert
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
– George Herbert
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
– George Herbert
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
– George Herbert
Spend not on hopes.
– George Herbert
The eyes have one language everywhere.
– George Herbert
The resolved mind hath no cares.
– George Herbert
The shortest answer is doing.
– George Herbert
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
– George Herbert
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
– George Herbert
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
– George Herbert
Valor that parleys is near yielding.
– George Herbert
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
– George Herbert
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
– George Herbert
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
– George Herbert
Living well is the best revenge.
– George Herbert
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
– George Herbert
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
– George Herbert
The best mirror is an old friend.
– George Herbert
Every mile is two in winter.
– George Herbert
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
– George Herbert
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
– George Herbert
Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
– George Herbert
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.