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
You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.
stones fleas
You cannot flea a stone.
knows
Yeeres know more then bookes.
fire discretion
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
half woods
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]
laughing
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
favour knows
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.
feet sea land
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
wine
Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.
wine cost
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
wine enemy firsts
Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]
wine
Wine ever paies for his loding.
woods weak
Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.
want doe ill
Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.