George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
law rooms action
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
husband wife gentleness
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.]
sports heart gambling
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.
snow footprint evidence
If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints.
men beast forfeit
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.
needs shoulders broads
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
desire news courtesy
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
country witty holy
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.
numbers good-company company
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.
abundance enough stewards
If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.
shoes knows
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
honesty eggs stealing
He that steals an egg will steal an ox.
hands gold lost
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
easter jew
The Jews spend at Easter.