George Herbert ( 10 of 1168 )
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
