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
dinner hunger pastime
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
humble heart humble-heart
Humble Hearts have humble desires.
profit fingers rings
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.
lying profit honour
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]
may easier
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.
school pride
Heresie is the school of pride.
thee gods-will
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
men old-man supper
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
whole
Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.
hands long may
Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.
bees wells
Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.
gentleman would-be let-him-go
Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.
mother wipe noses
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
foxes deceiving
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.