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
house ready
In a good house all is quickly ready.
ill vessel
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
sticks ill
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
ells inches ill
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
bees ease world
If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.
wells ifs
If you must flie, flie well.
ifs
If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.
might hares ifs
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
giving knaves ifs
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
hands doe ifs
If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.
wise fool go-hard
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]
shadow crooked ifs
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
dog giving bark
If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]
daughter mother ovens
If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.