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
garden vines
Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.
masters
Hee that is a master must serve (another).
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.
son fats
Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.
bundles transport
Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.
children wife want
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
foxes girdles mates
Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
plant barefoot
Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.
giving bones thee
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
debt rich
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.
hard ripe
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
ought
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.