The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Quote by George Herbert

Topics: George Herbert Quotes

Punishment is lame, but it comes

Punishment is lame, but it comes

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout

You must lose a fly to catch a trout

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most,...

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most,...

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Spend not on hopes.

Spend not on hopes.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Living well is the best revenge.

Living well is the best revenge.

The offender never pardons.

The offender never pardons.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he...

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he...

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no...

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no...

The eyes have one language everywhere.

The eyes have one language everywhere.