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
cutting tongue steel
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
thread
The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
tongue quills
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
tables
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
needs body
The soule needs few things, the body many.
servant
The slothful is the servant of the counters.
men singing shops
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
men sight force
The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.
water cold cold-water
The scalded head feares cold water.
royal crowns headache
The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]
rich knows
The Rich knowes not who is his friend. [The rich knows not who is his friend.]
reason poor
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
woods able rage
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.
littles patient
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.