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By The Needle You Shall Draw The Thread, And By That Which Is Past, See How That Which Is To Come Will Be Drawne On.

-George Herbert

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By The Needle You

George Herbert

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By The Needle You Shall Draw The Thread, And By That Which Is Past, See How That Which Is To Come Will Be Drawne On.

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Speake Fitly, Or Be Silent Wisely.

Hee That Comes Of A Hen Must Scrape.

Death Keepes No Calender.

A Flatterers Throat Is An Open Sepulcher.

Spectacles Are Deaths Harquebuze. [spectacles Are Death's Arquebuse.]

Heresie May Be Easier Kept Out, Then Shooke Off.

In Every Countrey The Sun Rises In The Morning. [in Every Country The Sun Rises In The Morning.]

He Hath No Leisure Who Useth It Not.

By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone.

Good Land, Evill Way.

Night Is The Mother Of Counsels.

Express Yourself

He That Would Be Well, Needs Not Goe From His Owne House. [he That Would Be Well Needs Not Go From His Own House.]

You May Be On Land, Yet Not In A Garden.

A Wise Man Needes Not Blush For Changing His Purpose.

The Perswasion Of The Fortunate Swaies The Doubtfull.

Where Your Will Is Ready, Your Feet Are Light.

It Is Part Of A Poor Spirit To Undervalue Himself And Blush.

Gentility Is Nothing But Ancient Riches.

He That Hath No Good Trade, It Is To His Losse.

Lend Only What You Can Afford To Lose.

A Servant With This Clause Makes Drudgery Divine; Who Sweeps A Room As Forthy Laws Makes It And Th'action Fine.

An Oath That Is Not To Bee Made Is Not To Be Kept.

Life Is Half Spent Before We Know What It Is.

Hee That Hath Right, Feares; He That Hath Wrong, Hopes.

Who Is The Honest Man? He That Doth Still And Strongly Good Pursue To God, His Neighbor, And Himself Most True: Whom Neither Force Nor Fawning Can Unpin, Or Wrench From Giving All Their Due.

The Child Saies Nothing, But What It Heard By The Fire.

Lawyers Houses Are Built On The Heads Of Fooles.

He That Doth What He Should Not, Shall Feele What He Would Not. [he That Doth What He Should Not Shall Feel What He Would Not.]

God's Breath In Man Returning To His Birth, The Soul In Paraphrase, Heart In Pilgrimage.

Little Losses Amaze, Great Tame.

He That Lends, Gives.

It's An Ill Aire Where Wee Gaine Nothing.

Quick Believers Need Broad Shoulders.

The Frier Preached Against Stealing, And Had A Goose In His Sleeve.

If That Thy Fame With Ev'ry Toy Be Pos'd, 'tis A Thin Web, Which Poysonous Fancies Make; But The Great Souldier's Honour Was Compos'd Of Thicker Stuf, Which Would Endure A Shake. Wisdom Picks Friends; Civility Plays The Rest; A Toy Shunn'd Cleanly Passeth With The Best.

Everyone Puts His Fault On The Times.

Let Thy Mind Still Be Bent, Still Plotting, Where, And When, And How Thy Business May Be Done. Slackness Breeds Worms; But The Sure Traveller, Though He Alights Sometimes Still Goeth On.

Vertue Now Is In Herbs And Stones And Words Onely.

A Rugged Stone Growes Smooth From Hand To Hand.

Wine That Cost Nothing Is Digested Before It Be Drunke.

Pardon All But Thy Selfe. [pardon All But Thyself.]

Tis Easier To Build Two Chimneys, Then To Maintaine One.

Say No Ill Of The Yeere, Till It Be Past. [say No Ill Of The Year Till It Be Past.]

A Child Correct Behind And Not Before.

If Thou Do Ill, The Joy Fades, Not The Pains. If Well, The Pain Doth Fade, The Joy Remains.

He That Will Not Have Peace, God Gives Him Warre. [he That Will Not Have Peace, God Gives Him War.]

He That Is Angry At A Feast Is Rude.

He That Riseth First, Is First Drest.

The War Is Not Don So Long As My Enemy Lives. [the War Is Not Done So Long As My Enemy Lives.]

He Can Give Little To His Servant, That Lickes His Knife. [he Can Give Little To His Servant That Licks His Knife.]

Every Thing New Is Fine.

Get To Live; Then Live, And Use It; Else, It Is Not True That Thou Hast Gotten. Surely Use Alone Makes Money Not A Contemptible Stone.

Yeeres Know More Then Bookes.

Every Mile Is Two In Winter

When All Sinnes Grow Old, Coveteousnesse Is Young.

The Fatt Man Knoweth Not, What The Leane Thinketh.

He That Hath Not The Craft, Let Him Shut Up Shop.

He That Marries Late, Marries Ill.

There Are More Physitians In Health Then Drunkards.

Words Are Women, Deeds Are Men.

They That Are Booted Are Not Alwaies Ready.

That From Small Fires Comes Oft No Small Mishap.

If Thou Thy Selfe Canst Doe It, Attend No Others Helpe Or Hand.

A Wise Man Cares Not For What He Cannot Have.

He That Tells A Secret Is Anothers Servant. [he That Tells A Secret Is Another's Servant.]

Prettiness Dies First.

A Piece Of A Churchyard Fits Everybody.

Water Trotted Is As Good As Oates.

The Sundaies Of Man's Life, Thredded Together On Time's String, Make Bracelets To Adorn The Wife Of The Eternal, Glorious King. On Sunday Heaven's Gates Stand Ope; Blessings Are Plentiful And Rife. More Plentiful Than Hope.

He That Sends A Foole Expects One.

Good Horses Make Short Miles.

Either Wealth Is Much Increased, Or Moderation Is Much Decayed.

God Strikes Not With Both Hands, For To The Sea He Made Heavens, And To Rivers Foords.

A Master Of Straw Eates A Servant Of Steele.

Craft Against Craft Makes No Living.

Citties Are Taken By The Eares.

Keep Not Ill Men Company, Lest You Increase The Number.

Who Hath A Wolfe For His Mate, Needes A Dog For His Man.

Amongst Good Men Two Men Suffice.

The Eye Will Have His Part.

Truth And Oyle Are Ever Above. [truth And Oil Are Ever Above.]

Some Men Plant An Opinion They Seem To Erradicate.

Critics Are Like Brushers Of Noblemen's Clothes.

Knowledge Is But Folly Unless It Is Guided By Grace.

Grasp Not At Much, For Fear Thou Losest All.

Hee That Will Deceive The Fox, Must Rise Betimes.

The Most Effective Mirror Is Definitely An Previous Good Friend.

Sleepe Without Supping, And Wake Without Owing.

There Is No Man, Though Never So Little, But Sometimes He Can Hurt.

God Is At The End, When We Thinke He Is Furthest Off It.

He That Hopes Not For Good, Feares Not Evill.

Honour Without Profit Is A Ring On The Finger.

The Great Would Have None Great And The Little All Little.

Women Laugh When They Can, And Weepe When They Will.

An Old Dog Barks Not In Vain.

Anothers Bread Costs Deare.

Where There Is No Honour, There Is No Griefe.

He That Gives All Before Hee Dies Provides To Suffer.

Knowledge Is Folly Unless Grace Guide It.

One Sound Blow Will Serve To Undo Us All.

Hee That Gives Thee A Bone, Would Not Have Thee Die.

One Eye Of The Masters Sees More, Then Ten Of The Servants. [one Eye Of The Master Sees More Than Ten Of The Servants']

Better Be A Foole Then A Knave. [better Be A Fool Than A Knave.]

Call Me Not An Olive, Till Thou See Me Gathered.

The Wolfe Eats Oft Of The Sheep That Have Been Warn'd.

Wealth Is The Conjurer's Devil, Whom, When He Thinks He Hath, The Devil Hath Him.

He Quits His Place Well, That Leaves His Friend There.

He That Trusts In A Lie, Shall Perish In Truth.

Good Service Is A Great Inchantment.

There Needs A Long Time To Know The Worlds Pulse.

Patience, Time And Money Accommodate All Things.

The Foole Askes Much, But Hee Is More Foole That Grants It.

To Gaine Teacheth How To Spend. [to Gain Teacheth How To Spend.]

Pursue Not A Victory Too Far. He Hath Conquered Well That Hath Made His Enemy Fly; Thou Mayest Beat Him To A Desperate Resistance, Which May Ruin Thee.

You Cannot Make A Windmill Go With A Pair Of Bellows.

Hee Lookes Not Well To Himselfe That Lookes Not Ever.

Although The Sun Shine, Leave Not Thy Cloake At Home.

All Our Pompe The Earth Covers.

Good Is God, But Better Carries It.

When Age Is Jocond It Makes Sport For Death. [when Age Is Jocund, It Makes Sport For Death.]

Sometimes The Best Gain Is To Lose.

An Ill Deed Cannot Bring Honor.

Fooles Bite One Another, But Wise-men Agree Together.

Every One Fastens Where There Is Gaine.

Man Is All Symmetry Full Of Proportions, One Limb To Another, And All To All The World Besides; Each Part May Call The Farthest, Brother; For Head With Foot Hath Private Amity And Both With Moons And Tides.

If The Braine Sowes Not Corne, It Plants Thistles.

I Had Rather Aske Of My Sire Browne Bread, Then Borrow Of My Neighbour White.

Long Jesting Was Never Good.

He That Hath Time And Looks For Better Time, Time Comes That He Repents Himself Of Time.

Before You Make A Friend, Eate A Bushell Of Salt With Him.

More Have Repented Speech Then Silence. [more Have Repented Speech Than Silence.]

Happie Is Hee That Chastens Himselfe.

No Hair So Small But Hath His Shadow.

Had You The World On Your Chesse-bord, You Could Not Fill All To Your Mind.

Ill Natures, The More You Aske Them, The More They Stick.

The Rage Of A Wild Boar Is Able To Spoil More Then One Wood.

To A Good Spender God Is The Treasurer.

Between The Businesse Of Life And The Day Of Death, A Space Ought To Be Interposed.

Every One Is Witty For His Owne Purpose.

That Is Not Good Language Which All Understand Not.

Money Wants No Followers.

Thornes Whiten Yet Doe Nothing.

Were There No Fooles, Badd Ware Would Not Passe.

A Fat House-keeper Makes Leane Executors. [a Fat Housekeeper Makes Lean Executors.]

A Long Tongue Is A Signe Of A Short Hand. [a Long Tongue Is A Sign Of A Short Hand.]

The Death Of Wolves Is The Safety Of The Sheep.

Warre Is Deaths Feast.

He That Sings On Friday, Will Weepe On Sunday.

Thinke Of Ease, But Worke On.

Ill Comes In By Ells, And Goes Out By Inches.

A Man Is Known To Be Mortal By Two Things, Sleep And Lust.

When It Thunders, The Theefe Becomes Honest. [when It Thunders, The Thief Becomes Honest.]

To A Crazy Ship, All Winds Are Contrary.

Nothing Dries Sooner Then A Teare.

Be Useful Where Thou Livest.

Wisedome Hath One Foot On Land, And Another On Sea.

In Sports And Journeys Men Are Knowne. [in Sports And Journeys Men Are Known.]

Give A Clown Your Finger, And He Will Take Your Hand.

In Solitude, Be A Multitude To Thyself.

Throw Away Thy Rod, Throw Away Thy Wrath; O My God, Take The Gentle Path.

For A Morning Raine Leave Not Your Journey. [for A Morning Rain Leave Not Your Journey.]

To The Counsel Of Fools A Wooden Bell.

Hee Stands Not Surely, That Never Slips.

Giving Much To The Poore, Doth Inrich A Mans Store. [giving Much To The Poor Doth Increase A Man's Store.]

The Book Of Books, The Storehouse And Magazine Of Life And Comfort, The Holy Scriptures.

Hee Will Spend A Whole Yeares Rent At One Meales Meate.

Gamsters And Race-horses Never Last Long.

Exalted Manna, Gladness Of The Best, Heaven In Ordinary, Man Well Drest.

Wouldst Thou Both Eat Thy Cake And Have It?

The Dog That Licks Ashes, Trust Not With Meale. [the Dog That Licks Ashes Trust Not With Meal.]

He That Contemplates Hath A Day Without Night.

Calmness Is Great Advantage; He That Lets Another Chafe, May Warm Him At His Fire.

I Had Rather Ride On An Ass That Carries Me Than A Horse That Throws Me.

The Best Of The Sport Is To Doe The Deede, And Say Nothing.

He That Deales In The World Needes Foure Seeves.

An Ill Wound Is Cured, Not An Ill Name.

Hee That Learnes A Trade Hath A Purchase Made.

He Is Onely Bright That Shines By Himselfe.

But Who Does Hawk At Eagles With A Dove?

Laugh Not Too Much; The Witty Man Laughs Least: For Wit Is News Only To Ignorance. Lesse At Thine Own Things Laugh; Lest In The Jest Thy Person Share, And The Conceit Advance.

All The Armes Of England Will Not Arme Feare.

When Thou Dost Tell Another's Jest, Therein Omit The Oaths, Which True Wit Cannot Need; Pick Out Of Tales The Mirth, But Not The Sin.

He That Hath Children, All His Morsels Are Not His Owne.

He That Commits A Fault, Thinkes Every One Speakes Of It. [he That Commits A Fault Thinks Everyone Speaks Of It.]

A Sleepy Master Makes His Servant A Lowt.

Not Only Ought Fortune To Be Pictured On A Wheel, But Every Thing Else In This World.

From A Chollerick Man Withdraw A Little; From Him That Saies Nothing, For Ever. [from A Choleric Man Withdraw A Little; From Him That Says Nothing, For Ever.]

Great Paines Quickly Find Ease.

We Live In An Age That Hath More Need Of Good Example Than Precepts.

Faire Is Not Faire, But That Which Pleaseth.

Greene Wood Makes A Hott Fire.

The Dark Grave, Which Knows All Secrets, Can Alone Reclaim The Fatal Doubt Once Cast On A Woman's Name.

If You Loose Your Time, You Cannot Get Mony Nor Gaine.

Only A Sweet And Virtuous Soul, Like Seasoned Timber, Never Gives.

He That Is Surprized With The First Frost Feeles It All The Winter After.

All Feete Tread Not In One Shoe.

The Thought Hath Good Leggs, And The Quill A Good Tongue.

Health Without Money Is Halfe An Ague.

Hee That Keepes His Owne Makes Warre.

Every Day Brings His Bread With It.

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