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
law
Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.
long dying praying
Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]
laughing wealth
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
burden
Knowledge is no burden.
men numbers increase
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
justice house please
Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. [Justice pleases few in their own house.]
eye jest
Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
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.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
ill
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.