An Idle youth, a needy Age.
George Herbert
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JUDE WANNISKI Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a ...
ARTHUR MIDDLETON If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynch...
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
ARISTOTLE Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs...
HILDA SOLIS Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Herbert has been an inspiration to us, ... It took courage for Herbert to do what he has done and to...
CARL JOHNSON Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
HOSEA BALLOU Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Love is that liquor sweet and most divine Which my God...
GEORGE HERBERT Age considers; youth ventures.
RAUPACH Youth has no age.
PABLO PICASSO Age considers; youth ventures.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez...
DAN JENKINS The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on y...
DAN JENKINS Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DANIEL DEFOE Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DANIEL DEFOE Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DORIS DAY How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
BENJAMIN HAYDON Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an un...
BRUCE CATTON Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay.
DANIEL DEFOE President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of...
TED CRUZ Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
ANDRE GIDE If youth knew; if age could.
SIGMUND FREUD Cherish youth, but trust old age.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB If youth knew; if age could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew
ROBERT BROWNING We'll never be as young as we are tonight.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It occured to me that we will never be young again.
ANTHONY SWOFFORD Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finel...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or y...
JOYCE CAROL OATES He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk e...
JOHN IRVING The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
OSCAR WILDE There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age ...
MILAN KUNDERA They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fear...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER What this would allow is a youth under age 17 accompanied by an adult would not need a license and n...
KYLE HUPFER Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the ener...
UNKNOWN Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an o...
PLATO He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opp...
PLATO To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
UNKNOWN Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
GEORGE AGE Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, impo...
STEPHEN SPENDER Our fMRI scanning reveals that middle age represents the transition between the patterns observed in...
DR CHERYL GRADY There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look
NELSON ROCKEFELLER George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not eve...
MARK TWAIN George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not ev...
MARK TWAIN If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
HENRI ESTIENNE Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO In youth we learn; in age we understand.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH In youth we learn; in age we understand.
MARIE EBNER VON ESCHENBACH If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In youth we learn; in age we understand.
MARIE E. ESCHENBACH If youth but knew; if age but could.
HENRI ESTIENNE In youth we learn; in age we understand.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBAC Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance
FRENCH PROVERB Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.
FAUSTO COPPI Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all...
RICHARD STEELE SR. Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all...
RICHARD STEELE, SR. Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
ANNE BRADSTREET Never run for an elevator. It looks needy.
TIMOTHY HURLEY Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J.K. ROWLING What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
ROBERT BROWNING Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J. K. ROWLING Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill
PROVERB Raoul: Age and treachery!
Neal: Youth and skill!
TAMORA PIERCE Mine's not an idle cause.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN There is an order
Of mortals on the earth, who do become
Old in their youth, and die ere middl...
UNKNOWN Noorus tähendab valmisolekut minna ja ära tuua kõik õnneks vajalik.
KATI MURUTAR Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
GARSON KANIN The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.
MURAD S. SHAH The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.
MURAD S. SHAH A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
MARY ALICE MESSENGER Seeing a person gracefully adorning old age garment,you've seen a person who has persisted from yout...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) An idle head is a boxe for the winde.
GEORGE HERBERT Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
ALFRED VIGNY Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
DAVID MAMET Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
UNKNOWN The defects of our youth sustain us in old age.
MARTY RUBIN
More George Herbert
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT To build castles in Spain.
GEORGE HERBERT A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.
[A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
GEORGE HERBERT Never was a miser a brave soul.
GEORGE HERBERT For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
GEORGE HERBERT In doing we learn.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky,
The dew shall weep th...
GEORGE HERBERT Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
GEORGE HERBERT A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
GEORGE HERBERT One sword keeps another in the sheath.
GEORGE HERBERT There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
GEORGE HERBERT The eyes have one language everywhere.
GEORGE HERBERT Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
GEORGE HERBERT He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
GEORGE HERBERT Be thrifty, but not covetous.
GEORGE HERBERT He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT One enemy is too much.
GEORGE HERBERT Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
GEORGE HERBERT One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
GEORGE HERBERT He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
GEORGE HERBERT All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
GEORGE HERBERT Living well is the best revenge.
GEORGE HERBERT Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
GEORGE HERBERT It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
GEORGE HERBERT He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
GEORGE HERBERT Night is the mother of counsels.
GEORGE 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 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 A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT The resolved mind hath no cares.
GEORGE HERBERT A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT Comparisons are odious.
GEORGE HERBERT No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a
Chappell hard by.
[No sooner is a Temp...
GEORGE HERBERT Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean.
[Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.]
GEORGE HERBERT Who did leave His Father's throne,
To assume thy flesh and bone?
Had He life, or had He none?
...
GEORGE HERBERT A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
[A feather in hand is better than a bird in t...
GEORGE HERBERT Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
GEORGE HERBERT Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
GEORGE HERBERT Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
GEORGE HERBERT Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.
[Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]
GEORGE HERBERT Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
GEORGE HERBERT A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
GEORGE HERBERT Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
[He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.]
GEORGE HERBERT Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
...
GEORGE HERBERT The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his
sleeve.
[The Friar preached against s...
GEORGE HERBERT Poverty is the mother of health.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
[Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away...
GEORGE HERBERT An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
GEORGE HERBERT Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
GEORGE HERBERT A little and good fills the trencher.
GEORGE HERBERT Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
GEORGE HERBERT A crooked log makes a strait fire
[A crooked log makes a straight fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
[Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
GEORGE HERBERT Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERT Art thou a magistrate? then be severe:
If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,
Redeem ...
GEORGE HERBERT The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
[The wolf must die in his own skin.]
GEORGE HERBERT You cannot know wine by the barrell.
[You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
GEORGE HERBERT A trade is better then service.
GEORGE HERBERT A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
GEORGE HERBERT February makes a bridge and March breakes it.
[February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
GEORGE HERBERT Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou ...
GEORGE HERBERT For all may have,
If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
GEORGE HERBERT Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
GEORGE HERBERT When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
God is more there than thou: for thou art there
...
GEORGE HERBERT Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
[Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
GEORGE HERBERT A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman,
seldome end well.
[A morning sun ...
GEORGE HERBERT Stay a little and news will find you.
GEORGE HERBERT Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song,
And spread thy golden wings in me;
Hatching my tender heart ...
GEORGE HERBERT Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse at th...
GEORGE HERBERT Better never begin than never make an end.
GEORGE HERBERT By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in...
GEORGE HERBERT In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
GEORGE HERBERT Better a bare foote then none.
[Better a barefoot than none.]
GEORGE HERBERT Woe be to him that reads but one book.
GEORGE HERBERT Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
GEORGE HERBERT Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whate...
GEORGE HERBERT Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
GEORGE HERBERT None knows the weight of another's burden.
GEORGE HERBERT War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
GEORGE HERBERT Love and a cough cannot be hid.
GEORGE HERBERT Life is half spent before we know what it is.
GEORGE HERBERT The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
GEORGE HERBERT Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
GEORGE HERBERT The offender never pardons.
GEORGE HERBERT Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
GEORGE HERBERT The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
GEORGE HERBERT He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever re...
GEORGE HERBERT If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
GEORGE HERBERT A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
GEORGE HERBERT Good words are worth much, and cost little.
GEORGE HERBERT There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse;
This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.
GEORGE HERBERT Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
GEORGE HERBERT That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
GEORGE HERBERT The Sundaies of man's life,
Thredded together on time's string,
Make bracelets to adorn the wi...
GEORGE HERBERT Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.
GEORGE HERBERT To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure.
[To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by me...
GEORGE HERBERT Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God...
GEORGE HERBERT Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
GEORGE HERBERT Every mile is two in winter.
GEORGE HERBERT Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance,
Ma...
GEORGE HERBERT Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde,
Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure
...
GEORGE HERBERT He that is drunken . . .
Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill
Did with his liquor slide int...
GEORGE HERBERT That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust
That measures all our time; which also shall
...
GEORGE HERBERT To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
GEORGE HERBERT To a boyling pot flies comes not.
[To a boiling pot flies come not.]
GEORGE HERBERT Time is the rider that breaks youth.
GEORGE HERBERT He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be hands...
GEORGE HERBERT Half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
GEORGE HERBERT The best mirror is an old friend.
GEORGE HERBERT You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
GEORGE HERBERT Storms make oaks take deeper root.
GEORGE HERBERT Hope is the poor man's bread.
GEORGE HERBERT Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst t...
GEORGE HERBERT None knows the weight of another's burden.
GEORGE HERBERT The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
GEORGE HERBERT A great ship askes deepe waters.
[A great ship asks deep waters.]
GEORGE HERBERT The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
GEORGE HERBERT When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
Pick o...
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie,
My musick shows...
GEORGE HERBERT Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee; but before
...
GEORGE HERBERT Valour that parleys is near yielding.
GEORGE HERBERT Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
GEORGE HERBERT Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
GEORGE HERBERT The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
GEORGE HERBERT A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
[A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
GEORGE HERBERT You must loose a flie to catch a trout.
[You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]
GEORGE HERBERT Better the feet slip then the tongue.
[Better the feet slip than the tongue.]
GEORGE HERBERT A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt
GEORGE HERBERT Living well is the best revenge
GEORGE HERBERT The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
GEORGE HERBERT The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.
GEORGE HERBERT The cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERT The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
GEORGE HERBERT The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
GEORGE HERBERT The chiefe boxe of health is time.
GEORGE HERBERT The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.
GEORGE HERBERT The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
GEORGE HERBERT The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
GEORGE HERBERT The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
GEORGE HERBERT The body is sooner drest then the soule.
GEORGE HERBERT The body is more drest then the soule.
GEORGE HERBERT The blind eate many a flie.
GEORGE HERBERT The bit that one eates, no friend makes.
GEORGE HERBERT The bird loves her nest.
GEORGE HERBERT The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
GEORGE HERBERT The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
GEORGE HERBERT The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT The best mirrour is an old friend.
GEORGE HERBERT The best bred have the best portion.
GEORGE HERBERT The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
GEORGE HERBERT The beades in the Hand, and the Divell in Capuch (or cape of the
cloak).
GEORGE HERBERT The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten.
GEORGE HERBERT The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.
GEORGE HERBERT The back-doore robs the house.
GEORGE HERBERT The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.
GEORGE HERBERT The absent partie is still faultie.
GEORGE HERBERT That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
GEORGE HERBERT That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
GEORGE HERBERT That which two will, takes effect.
GEORGE HERBERT That which sufficeth is not little.
GEORGE HERBERT That is not good language which all understand not.
GEORGE HERBERT Talking payes no toll.
GEORGE HERBERT Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on
all sides.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled
Enemy.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the
people.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred
woman.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
GEORGE HERBERT Suffer and expect.
GEORGE HERBERT Such a Saint, such an offering.
GEORGE HERBERT Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
GEORGE HERBERT The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
GEORGE HERBERT The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether
escaped.
GEORGE HERBERT The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT The hole calls the thiefe.
GEORGE HERBERT The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.
GEORGE HERBERT The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
GEORGE HERBERT The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
GEORGE HERBERT The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
GEORGE HERBERT The greatest step is that out of doores.
[The greatest step is that out of doors.]
GEORGE HERBERT The great would have none great and the little all little.
GEORGE HERBERT The great put the little on the hooke.
GEORGE HERBERT