If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.


Alan Patrick Herbert

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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
GEORGE HERBERT
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a w...
HERBERT SIMON
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
GEORGE HERBERT
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
HERBERT HOOVER
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in ...
HERBERT MARCUSE
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
GEORGE HERBERT
Night is the mother of counsels.
GEORGE HERBERT
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
AUBERON HERBERT
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despoti...
FRANK 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
Journalism is the entertainment business.
FRANK 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
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, ...
AUBERON HERBERT
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCER
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCER
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
HERBERT HOOVER
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments an...
HERBERT SPENCER
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
HERBERT HOOVER
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT
The resolved mind hath no cares.
GEORGE HERBERT
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
HERBERT SPENCER