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
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.
dine
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
demand foolish
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
hens
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
house
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
hard
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
eye dust his-eyes
Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.