Quotes
Quotes - Herbert
To build castles in Spain.
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; But if thou want it, buy it not too deare Many affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.
He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly That feeds on dung is colored thereby.
Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd, Redeem truth from his jaws: if a soldier, Chase brave employments with a naked sword Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
In doing we learn.
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
Stay a little and news will find you.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
