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
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.
cows sells
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
gold
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
fall heaven faces
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
stones bruises fingers
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
saint blame peter
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
doe cures
Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.
accounts knows
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
likes bread
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
horse water wife
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.