George Herbert (1593 – 1633)
English poet and orator.
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
Hee that lookes not before finds himself behind.
The eye is bigger then the belly.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Weigh justly and sell dearely.
Goe not for every griefe to the physitian, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music.
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
One hand washeth another, and both the face.
By all means use sometimes to be alone.
He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
To a boyling pot flies come not.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
[ A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.]