Thursday, April 30, 2009

George Herbert

1. “Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.”
2. “Life is half spent before we know what it is.”
3. "Living well is the best revenge."
4. “Look not on pleasures as they come, but go.
Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span
Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe.
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains;
If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”
5. “Man is all symmetrie,
Full of proportions, one limbe to another,
And all to all the world besides:
Each part may call the farthest, brother:
For head with foot hath privite amitie,
And both with moons and tides.”
6. ”Storms make oaks take deeper root.”
7. “The eyes have one language every where.”
8. “War makes thieves and peace hangs them.”
9. “Words and feathers the wind carries away.”