History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. WELLS Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome...
JOHN LLOYD There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The ...
LUKE HARDING As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vin...
VIGGO MORTENSEN We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
SAM NUNN Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
H.G. WELLS E V E R Y T H I N G I S E N E R G Y '
~ ALBERT EINSTEIN
' I F E V E R Y T H I N...
SERGE BENHAYON You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!
EDDIE IZZARD George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
RICHARD DAWKINS I I I I I I t t t t t t i i i i i i s s s s s s u u u u u u n n n n n n f f f f f f o o o o o o r r ...
TODD COBURN It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already en...
G.H. HARDY Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influ...
JULIAN BARNES The Mitchell #4-H readings are lower than the more favorable readings from the two previously logged...
LAWRENCE FINN The War That Will End War.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension w...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself again...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your co...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world wi...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Go away...I'm alright.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and eng...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an ...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals si...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that i...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening ...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Go away, I'm all right!
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Looking through the telescope, one saw a circle of deep blue and the little round planet swimming in...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynch...
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Love is that liquor sweet and most divine Which my God...
GEORGE HERBERT Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a ...
ARTHUR MIDDLETON A true artist willingly removes their heart, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it...
H.G. MEWIS ...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and th...
DR HENRY GEORGE CHARLES CLARKE Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.
JOSEPH CUMMINS What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES [The trade center attack] is the mostly costly man-made catastrophe in U.S. history and possibly wor...
CAROLINE GORMAN George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on y...
DAN JENKINS A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it b...
H.G. MEWIS The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. —...
EREC STEBBINS He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
TED STRICKLAND The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran ag...
DANA PERINO They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
SPIRO T. AGNEW They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
SPIRO AGNEW Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLS Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLS Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLS What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLS The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have...
H. G. WELLS The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLS If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLS The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the d...
H. G. WELLS Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself again...
H. G. WELLS Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
H G WELLS 'Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".
H. G. WELLS Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
H. G. WELLS Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
H. G. WELLS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what ...
H. G. WELLS The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLS While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has ...
H. G. WELLS Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLS Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLS Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLS Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLS Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLS The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLS Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals si...
H. G. WELLS We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth centur...
H. G. WELLS Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they h...
H. G. WELLS Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLS The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in Ame...
H. G. WELLS The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
H. G. WELLS One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLS The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the...
H. G. WELLS A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension ...
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H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Advertising is legalized lying.
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H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals si...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that i...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening ...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Go away, I'm all right!
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Looking through the telescope, one saw a circle of deep blue and the little round planet swimming in...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLS Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLS Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLS What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLS The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have...
H. G. WELLS History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLS If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLS The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the d...
H. G. WELLS Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself again...
H. G. WELLS Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
H G WELLS 'Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".
H. G. WELLS Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
H. G. WELLS Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
H. G. WELLS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what ...
H. G. WELLS The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLS While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has ...
H. G. WELLS Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLS Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLS Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLS Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLS Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLS Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLS The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLS Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals si...
H. G. WELLS We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth centur...
H. G. WELLS Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they h...
H. G. WELLS Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLS The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in Ame...
H. G. WELLS The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
H. G. WELLS One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLS The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the...
H. G. WELLS A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension ...
H. G. WELLS No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. WELLS Go away... I'm alright.
H. G. WELLS Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WELLS The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLS The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
H. G. WELLS We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a m...
H. G. WELLS No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. WELLS Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLS I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLS It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLS Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLS Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS The shape of things to come.
H. G. WELLS There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and eng...
H. G. WELLS There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your co...
H. G. WELLS Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones the...
H. G. WELLS If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLS We were making the future, he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were makin...
H. G. WELLS The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.
H. G. WELLS I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocati...
H. G. WELLS And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he want...
H. G. WELLS You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
H. G. WELLS In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the ta...
H. G. WELLS In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening ...
H. G. WELLS Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
H. G. WELLS After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning an...
H. G. WELLS Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. WELLS The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
H. G. WELLS Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
H. G. WELLS Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a
sentimentality of flag-cheering with no con...
H.G. WELLS (HERBERT GEORGE WELLS) There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world.
Natural power harnessed in machines wi...
H.G. WELLS (HERBERT GEORGE WELLS) If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men
to produce presently, from the tre...
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DAVID G. WELLS One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT To build castles in Spain.
GEORGE HERBERT A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.
[A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
GEORGE HERBERT Never was a miser a brave soul.
GEORGE HERBERT For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
GEORGE HERBERT In doing we learn.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky,
The dew shall weep th...
GEORGE HERBERT Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
GEORGE HERBERT A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
GEORGE HERBERT One sword keeps another in the sheath.
GEORGE HERBERT There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
GEORGE HERBERT The eyes have one language everywhere.
GEORGE HERBERT Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
GEORGE HERBERT He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
GEORGE HERBERT Be thrifty, but not covetous.
GEORGE HERBERT He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT One enemy is too much.
GEORGE HERBERT Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
GEORGE HERBERT One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
GEORGE HERBERT He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
GEORGE HERBERT All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
GEORGE HERBERT Living well is the best revenge.
GEORGE HERBERT Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
GEORGE HERBERT It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
GEORGE HERBERT He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
GEORGE HERBERT Night is the mother of counsels.
GEORGE HERBERT Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good dige...
GEORGE HERBERT A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
GEORGE HERBERT Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver ...
GEORGE HERBERT Spend not on hopes.
GEORGE HERBERT Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
GEORGE HERBERT A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT The resolved mind hath no cares.
GEORGE HERBERT A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT Comparisons are odious.
GEORGE HERBERT No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a
Chappell hard by.
[No sooner is a Temp...
GEORGE HERBERT Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean.
[Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.]
GEORGE HERBERT Who did leave His Father's throne,
To assume thy flesh and bone?
Had He life, or had He none?
...
GEORGE HERBERT A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
[A feather in hand is better than a bird in t...
GEORGE HERBERT Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
GEORGE HERBERT Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
GEORGE HERBERT Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
GEORGE HERBERT Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.
[Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]
GEORGE HERBERT Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
GEORGE HERBERT A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
GEORGE HERBERT Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
[He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.]
GEORGE HERBERT Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
...
GEORGE HERBERT The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his
sleeve.
[The Friar preached against s...
GEORGE HERBERT Poverty is the mother of health.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
[Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away...
GEORGE HERBERT An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
GEORGE HERBERT Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
GEORGE HERBERT A little and good fills the trencher.
GEORGE HERBERT Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
GEORGE HERBERT A crooked log makes a strait fire
[A crooked log makes a straight fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
[Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
GEORGE HERBERT Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERT Art thou a magistrate? then be severe:
If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,
Redeem ...
GEORGE HERBERT The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
[The wolf must die in his own skin.]
GEORGE HERBERT You cannot know wine by the barrell.
[You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
GEORGE HERBERT A trade is better then service.
GEORGE HERBERT A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
GEORGE HERBERT February makes a bridge and March breakes it.
[February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
GEORGE HERBERT Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou ...
GEORGE HERBERT For all may have,
If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
GEORGE HERBERT Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
GEORGE HERBERT When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
God is more there than thou: for thou art there
...
GEORGE HERBERT Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
GEORGE HERBERT A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman,
seldome end well.
[A morning sun ...
GEORGE HERBERT Stay a little and news will find you.
GEORGE HERBERT Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song,
And spread thy golden wings in me;
Hatching my tender heart ...
GEORGE HERBERT Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse at th...
GEORGE HERBERT Better never begin than never make an end.
GEORGE HERBERT By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in...
GEORGE HERBERT In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
GEORGE HERBERT Better a bare foote then none.
[Better a barefoot than none.]
GEORGE HERBERT Woe be to him that reads but one book.
GEORGE HERBERT Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
GEORGE HERBERT Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whate...
GEORGE HERBERT Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
GEORGE HERBERT None knows the weight of another's burden.
GEORGE HERBERT War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
GEORGE HERBERT Love and a cough cannot be hid.
GEORGE HERBERT Life is half spent before we know what it is.
GEORGE HERBERT The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
GEORGE HERBERT Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
GEORGE HERBERT The offender never pardons.
GEORGE HERBERT Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
GEORGE HERBERT The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
GEORGE HERBERT He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever re...
GEORGE HERBERT If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
GEORGE HERBERT A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
GEORGE HERBERT Good words are worth much, and cost little.
GEORGE HERBERT There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT