George Herbert (1593 – 1633)
English poet and orator.
Of all smells, bread ; of all tasts, salt.
[ An old dog barks not in vain.]
The hole calls the thiefe.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
Be not a baker if your head be of butter.
His bark is worse than his bite.
Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.
Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?
God heales, and the physitian hath the thankes.
Women laugh when they can and weepe when they will.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
[ There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.]
He that hath love in his brest hath spurres in his sides.
When a dog is a-drowning every one offers him drink.
[ Cruelty is more cruell if we defer the pain.]
When the tree is fallen all goe with their hatchet.
A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.