18 Quotes By George Herbert


Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert on best

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert on friendship

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 on health

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert on humor

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert on knowledge

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert on learning

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert on legal

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
George Herbert on legal

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert on life

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

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert on peace

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 on time

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert on truth

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert on war

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 on work

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert on fathers day

Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar
George Herbert on ability

Valor that parleys is near yielding.
George Herbert on valor