Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.
George Herbert
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I'm not afraid of bees....AH! BEE!!!
BLINK 182 What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
MARCUS AURELIUS To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the b...
SUZY KASSEM If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.
GEORGE HERBERT The bee is domesticated but not tamed.
WILLIAM LONGGOOD Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.
GEORGE HERBERT You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.
FANNIE FLAGG The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be...
ROBIN GIBB There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a ...
KEVIN KELLY And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank y...
KRISTIN CASHORE You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.
ROBIN GIBB A bee gathers from the same type of sources a bug does. But a bee works the inner transformation wit...
JONATHAN CHEN Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.
GEORGE HERBERT The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERT When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
GEORGE HERBERT An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
GEORGE HERBERT The Bee Gees no longer exist.
BARRY GIBB Buff: What are you doing now?
Bee-Bee: I don't know. You mean like now? Like right now? W...
ERIC BOGOSIAN The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.
ROB HUEBEL We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle m...
MICHAEL MORPURGO He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee li...
CHARLES DICKENS I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myse...
CHRIS CLEAVE It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted...
MARY O'CONNOR You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.
ALBERT H. FITZ That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
MARCUS AURELIUS The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not going to run for governor. You kno...
JAY LENO I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
BRITT DANIEL Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
BARRY GIBB Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
KARA DIOGUARDI I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a...
ROBIN GIBB As busie as a Bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) One bee makes no swarm.
FRENCH PROVERB If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocrac...
EMILY DICKINSON He's been in the spelling bee for four years. Patrick winning is not a surprise for me.
DON CROSS Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR The Pedigree of Honey/ Does not concern the Bee --/ A Clover, any time, to him,/ Is Aristocracy --
EMILY DICKINSON To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone...
EMILY DICKINSON How do you like me now bee-otch?" She grinned, wickedly.
QUINN LOFTIS Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it g...
MARY KAY ASH A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
GEORGE HERBERT The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for other...
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.
GEORGE HERBERT To bee beloved is above all bargaines.
GEORGE HERBERT Honey is sweet! but the bee stings
PROVERB Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Every saint has a bee in his halo
ELBERT HUBBARD Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
T...
EMILY DICKINSON Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it...
MARY KAY ASH Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
SRIKUMAR RAO Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT He that will be served must bee patient.
GEORGE HERBERT Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.
GEORGE HERBERT The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE Every saint has a bee in his halo.
ELBERT HUBBARD Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MOHAMMED ALI Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.
PHILIP PULLMAN In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bi...
FLORENCE KING I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caug...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD It takes a bee to get the honey out
ARTHUR GUITERMAN The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
GEORGE HERBERT Death, where is your STING? I chose to BEE.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive i...
CLAY SHIRKY You are in love when you feel and see.
Mind is dancing on a flower like a bee.
DEBASISH MRIDHA In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you
bee drowned.
GEORGE HERBERT Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. ...
JOHN OLIVER I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
EMILIA FOX Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
BARRY GIBB If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle
SAMUEL JOHNSON Rouse thyself! do not be idle!
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Be not solitary, be not idle
ROBERT BURTON I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their a...
NOEL GALLAGHER Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey,
and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY . . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .
MARTHA WASHINGTON And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss
for the fly that is in the uttermos...
BIBLE I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
RACHAEL HARRIS The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
MICHAEL JACKSON Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.
BINDI IRWIN Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
GEORGE HERBERT Love, in my bosom, like a bee, / Doth suck his sweet.
THOMAS LODGE Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball.
HARRY CARAY The joy of the bee tribes infuses my life with sweetness.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
ANN BRASHARES There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people ...
ANN BRASHARES
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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