George Herbert (1593 – 1633)
English poet and orator.
Light burthens long borne growe heavie.
To a crazy ship all windes are contrary.
Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.
Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.
Be useful where thou livest.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
The great would have none great, and the little all little.
When God will punish, He will first take away the understanding.
Trust not one night's ice.
One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
Words are women, deedes are men.
Never had ill workman good tooles.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
Would you know what mony is, go borrow some.
Marry your sonne when you will, your daughter when you can.
[ The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.]
One stroke fells not an oke.