Quotes by George Herbert
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
The offender never pardons.
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
Better never begin than never make an end.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful heart.
Valor that parleys is near yielding.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
