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
fishing
It's not good fishing before the net.
bows fishes
It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
doe paine
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
horse hands walking
It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.
It's good tying the sack before it be full.
ill
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
ill
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
absurd armour
It's absurd to warme one in his armour.
wicked wicked-things
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
horse proud
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
stakes
It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.
fire bed dangerous
It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
mice
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
eggs hard
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]