Famous George Herbert Quotations

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"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."
by George Herbert
"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"The best mirror is an old friend."
by George Herbert
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
by George Herbert Allen
"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Every mile is two in winter."
by George Herbert
"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."
by George Herbert
"He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with."
by George Herbert Walker
"He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself."
by George Herbert
"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."
by George Herbert
"Hope is the poor man's bread."
by George Herbert
"I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Living well is the best revenge."
by George Herbert
"Love and a cough cannot be hid."
by George Herbert
"My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES!"
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."
by George Herbert
"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."
by George Herbert
"Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own."
by Herbert George Wells
"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"There would be no great men if there were no little ones."
by George Herbert
"Woe be to him that reads but one book."
by George Herbert
"You must lose a fly to catch a trout."
by George Herbert
"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee."
by George Herbert
"Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt."
by George Herbert
"Communism didn't fall. It was pushed."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia."
by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
"Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done."
by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."
by George Herbert
"He that knows nothing doubts nothing."
by George Herbert
"Be thrifty, but not covetous."
by George Herbert
"One enemy is too much."
by George Herbert
"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning."
by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
by George Herbert
"A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body."
by George Herbert
"Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health."
by George Herbert
"The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought."
by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."
by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."
by George Herbert
"Spend not on hopes."
by George Herbert
"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."
by George Herbert
"All are presumed good till they are found at fault."
by George Herbert
"Go away...I'm alright."
by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
"I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything."
by George Herbert Palmer
"Never was a miser a brave soul."
by George Herbert
"Night is the mother of counsels."
by George Herbert
"He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly."
by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."
by George Herbert
"A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone."
by George Herbert
"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind."
by George Herbert
"Time is the rider that breaks youth."
by George Herbert
"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."
by H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
"At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth Of thieves and murderers: there I him espied..."
by George Herbert
"But since our Saviours death did put some bloud Into thy face;..."
by George Herbert
"Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing, Nothing but bones,..."
by George Herbert
"Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,..."
by George Herbert
"Holinesse on the head, Light and perfections on the breast,..."
by George Herbert
"Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters..."
by George Herbert
"life is straight, Straight as a line, and ever tends to Thee,"
by George Herbert
"Life is a businesse, not good cheer; Ever in warres...."
by George Herbert
"Sometimes Death, puffing at the doore, Blows all the dust about the floore:..."
by George Herbert
"that repose And peace, which everywhere With so much earnestness you do pursue, Is only there."
by George Herbert
"These are thy wonders, Lord of power, Killing and quickning, bringing down to hell..."
by George Herbert
"Whether I flie with angels, fall with dust, Thy hands made both, and I am there:..."
by George Herbert


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