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
fire kindles great-ones
Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.
witness spanish-proverb
Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]
feathers
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
water
Let none say, I will not drinke water.
lying men looks
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
earnest
Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
house lawyer built
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
law
Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.
long dying praying
Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]
laughing wealth
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
burden
Knowledge is no burden.
men numbers increase
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
justice house please
Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. [Justice pleases few in their own house.]
eye jest
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.