“A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
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“Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Flies are busiest about leane horses.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Gamsters and race-horses never last long.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Good horses make short miles.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]”
“A jade eates as much as a good horse.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...
“The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“To a greedy eating horse a short halter.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
Source: The works of George Herbert
“You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert