WIST Quotations

Herbert, George -- (Attributed)

Dave — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:28:54 +0000

If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
(Attributed)

Often attributed to Herbert, but not found in his works. Elsewhere listed simply as a proverb.

Herbert, George -- (Attributed)

Dave — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:31:49 +0000

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
(Attributed)

Attributed to Herbert, but not found in his works. Bohn identifies this as proverbs in three Germanic languages:

Ein magerer Bergleich ist besser den ein setter Process. (German)
Een mager verdrag is betger dan een vet proces. (Dutch)
Bedre er et magert Forliig, end en fed Traette. (Danish)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 3 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:17:42 +0000

A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 3 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 13 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:24:29 +0000

The scalded dog feares cold water.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 13 (1640 ed.)

See Twain.

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 15 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:31:20 +0000

Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 15 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 18 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:55:26 +0000

When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 18 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 69 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 14:10:46 +0000

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 69 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 105 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:42:32 +0000

Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 105 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 120 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 24 May 2024 14:05:28 +0000

Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 120 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 136 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:37:03 +0000

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 136 (1640 ed.)

See Alfonso X, Bacon (1624), Howell (1659).

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 141 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:08:28 +0000

Love your neighbour, yet pull not downe your hedge.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 141 (1640 ed.)

See Matthew.

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 153 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:04:54 +0000

The mill cannot grind with the water that’s past.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 153 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 155 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:06:49 +0000

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 155 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 159 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:45:46 +0000

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 159 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 163 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:26:08 +0000

None is a foole alwaies, every one sometimes.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 163 (1640 ed.)

See Lincoln.

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 170 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 21 May 2010 04:28:29 +0000

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 170 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 187 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:00:22 +0000

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 187 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 196 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:13:47 +0000

Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 196 (1640 ed.)

Today usually phrased, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 232 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:06:44 +0000

Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 232 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 290 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:14:00 +0000

Goe not for every griefe to the Physitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 290 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 296 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:47:54 +0000

The best mirrour is an old friend.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 296 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 302 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:58:44 +0000

That is not good language which all understand not.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 302 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 306 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:22:50 +0000

All is not gold that glisters.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 306 (1640 ed.)

Usually modernized as "All that glitters is not gold."

Also recorded in James Howell, Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, "English Proverbs" (1659) [compiler], in three different places.

See Shakespeare, Tolkien.

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 309 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:07:43 +0000

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 309 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 314 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:22:04 +0000

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 314 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 337 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:22:07 +0000

When the Foxe preacheth, beware your geese.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 337 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 343 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:32:01 +0000

Hee that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 343 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 403 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:16:41 +0000

Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 403 (1640 ed.)

See also # 309.

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 499 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:44:30 +0000

For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 499 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 524 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:15:05 +0000

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 524 (1640 ed.)

Perhaps a variant of John Lyly (1579): "The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well."

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 527 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:49:20 +0000

A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 527 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 537 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:45:03 +0000

Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 537 (1640 ed.)

For more discussion of this and other closely related quotations: God helps those who help themselves - Wikipedia

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 580 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 22 May 2014 12:10:34 +0000

Good & quickly seldome meete.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 580 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 581 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:41:01 +0000

Folly growes without watering.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 581 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 591 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:36 +0000

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 591 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 655 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:45:34 +0000

Shew a good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill man doubles his fault.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 655 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 674 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:47:51 +0000

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 674 (1640 ed.)

See also Martin Luther.

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 747 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:44:08 +0000

God’s Mill grinds slow, but sure.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 747 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 748 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:35:07 +0000

Every one thinks his sacke heaviest.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 748 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 776 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:04:15 +0000

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.

[Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends.]

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 776 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 781 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:59:52 +0000

He that feares death lives not.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 781 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 784 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:15:05 +0000

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 784 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 7841 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:38:37 +0000

The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 7841 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 836 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:47:08 +0000

He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.

[He thinks not well, that thinks not again.]

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 836 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 838 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:51:42 +0000

The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 838 (1640 ed.)

See Howell (1659).

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 842 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:42:06 +0000

It’s good tying the sack before it be full.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 842 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 844 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:16:58 +0000

Poverty is no sinne.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 844 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 865 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:54:18 +0000

The Rich knowes not who is his friend.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 865 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 865 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:23:47 +0000

The Rich knowes not who is his friend.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 865 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 880 (1651 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:07:14 +0000

None knowes the weight of anothers burthen.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 880 (1651 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 939 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:23:33 +0000

Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 939 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 949 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:47:19 +0000

Every mile is two in winter.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 949 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 968 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:28:30 +0000

Manie things are lost for want of asking.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 968 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 969 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:13:55 +0000

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 969 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 975 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:55:55 +0000

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 975 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1008 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:37:57 +0000

Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1008 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1010 (1640 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:45:53 +0000

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1010 (1640 ed.)

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1141 (1651 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:20:10 +0000

When war begin, then hell openeth.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1141 (1651 ed.)

See Howell (1659).

Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1146 (1651 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:14:57 +0000

Wo be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1146 (1651 ed.)

See this Latin proverb.

Herbert, George -- The Temple, “The Church Porch,” l. 241 (1633)

Dave — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:05:52 +0000

Wit’s an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
The Temple, “The Church Porch,” l. 241 (1633)

Herbert, George -- The Temple, “The Church Porch,” l. 307 (1633)

Dave — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:16:34 +0000

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
The Temple, “The Church Porch,” l. 307 (1633)

Herbert, George -- The Temple, “The Church Porch,” ll. 25-26 (1633)

Dave — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:44:43 +0000

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
The Temple, “The Church Porch,” ll. 25-26 (1633)

Herbert, George -- The Temple, “The Church Porch,” ll. 77-78 (1633)

Dave — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:21:38 +0000

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
The Temple, “The Church Porch,” ll. 77-78 (1633)

Herbert, George -- Poem (1614), “The Church-Porch,” ll. 305-306, The Temple (1633)

Dave — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:10:30 +0000

A civil guest
Will no more talk all, than eat all, the feast.

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Poem (1614), “The Church-Porch,” ll. 305-306, The Temple (1633)

Benjamin Franklin quotes this poem (and, for a change, provides the attribution) in Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.):

Herbert, the poet, says,

—— a well bred guest,
Will no more talk all than eat all the feast.