“You cannot know wine by the barrell.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
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Famous George Herbert Quotes
“Half the world knows not how the other half lies.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Would you know what money is, go borrow some.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.”
“Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The life of spies is to know, not bee known.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The Rich knowes not who is his friend. [The rich knows not who is his friend.]”
“There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“They that know one another salute a farre off.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“Wee know not who lives or dies.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Yeeres know more then bookes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
Source: The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue
“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“None knows the weight of another's burden.”
Source: The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum
“He that knows nothing doubts nothing.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir