Herbert Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Herbert Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.— George Herbert
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.— George Herbert
[Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]
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I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.— George Herbert
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.— George Herbert
Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.— Herbert Marcuse
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.— Frank Herbert
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.
Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.— George Herbert
Love is not found in the market.— George Herbert
He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.— George Herbert
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.— Herbert A. Simon
I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.— Zbigniew Herbert
Poritrin nobles professed to follow gentle, bucolic Navachristianity, but their core beliefs did not extend to their daily lives. They had their festivals, and embraced religious trappings, but the Poritrin upper classes did little to demonstrate their true faith.— Brian Herbert
But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth. -Dr.Yueh— Frank Herbert
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.— George Herbert
[Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.— George Herbert
It is better to have wings then hornes.— George Herbert
Trends that can't continue, won't.— Herbert Stein
A pittifull mother makes a scald head.— George Herbert
Congress has never since effectively asserted itself to stop a president with a bead on war. It was true of George Herbert Walker Bush. It was true of Bill Clinton. And by September 11, 2001, even if there had been real resistance to Vice President Cheney and President George W. Bush starting the next war (or two), there were no institutional barriers strong enough to have realistically stopped them. By 9/11, the war-making authority in the United States had become, for all intents and purposes, uncontested and unilateral: one man's decision to make. It wasn't supposed to be like this.— Rachel Maddow
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.— Helen Oyeyemi
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.— George Herbert
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.— Herbert Spencer
... one doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.— Frank Herbert
Pardon all but thy selfe.— George Herbert
[Pardon all but thyself.]
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The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.— George Herbert
There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure— Herbert Hoover
that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.— George Herbert
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.— Herbert Hoover
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.— George Herbert
The wife is the key of the house.— George Herbert
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.— Herbert Hoover
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere - "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.— C.S. Lewis
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.— Herbert Hoover
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.— Frank Herbert
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.— George Herbert Palmer
Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.— George Herbert
[Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]
Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.— Herbert Hoover
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.— George Herbert
It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.— Frank Herbert
Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.— Herbert Spencer
Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.— George Herbert
Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.— Frank Herbert
An old friend is a new house.— George Herbert
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.— George Herbert
[He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]
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Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.— Peter York
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.— George Herbert
Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother's barked reminder: "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain.— Frank Herbert
"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.— Herbert M. Shelton
Storms make oaks take deeper root.— George Herbert
Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.— Frank Herbert
Those activities of an earlier day, furthermore, provided opportunities for cooperative action toward a common goal and for a sense of accomplishment that was not readily available to a modern technological society. For the 'city-bred child of today' (p. 21), such opportunities were no longer present, and the educational problem then became one of recreating in the school something of the occupations that in former times not only provided a sense of real purpose, but linked intelligence and cooperative action to what the work of the world required.— Herbert M. Kliebard
All are not merry that dance lightly.— George Herbert
The shortest answer is doing.— George Herbert
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.— Frank Herbert
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.— George Herbert
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.— George Herbert
Humans are almost always lonely.— Frank Herbert
The drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable - except when you see it happen in the drawing room.— Frank Herbert
The robot responded with surprising sarcasm. I am aware of the various bodily orifices humans possess. Therefore, I invite you to take a power tool and insert it where the -— Brian Herbert
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.— Frank Herbert
Both sides can make very strong cases for their positions, but sadly both sides have become arrogant and much too certain of their positions. Probably most of you who read this chapter will look at the verses on the other side (of your position) and say, "I can answer those verses easily." No, you can't! You are imposing the grid of your system on those passages that challenge you so that you won't have to be challenged. Let me give an example.— Herbert W. Bateman IV
I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.— Herbert Hoover
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.— Herbert Spencer
In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.— Herbert Croly
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.— Herbert Croly
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!— Herbert Marcuse
Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.— Alan Patrick Herbert
The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.— David Herbert Donald
The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.— Herbert Hoover
The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.— Herbert Hoover
What's a gom jabbar?— Frank Herbert
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.— George Herbert
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.— Frank Herbert
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.— George Herbert
[Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]
Education has for its object the formation of character.— Herbert Spencer
Hee that is a master must serve (another).— George Herbert
Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies.— Brian Herbert
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.— George Herbert Mead
Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?— Herbert C. Brown
Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.— Herbert Read
Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market.— George Herbert
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. - Darwi Odrade— Frank Herbert
Are you already training my replacement? Piter demanded.— Frank Herbert
"Replace you? Why, Piter, where could I find another Mentat with your cunning and venom?"
"The same place you found me, Baron."
"Perhaps I should at that," the Baron mused. "You do seem a bit unstable lately. And the spice you eat!"
"Are my pleasures too expensive, Baron? Do you object to them?"
"My dear Piter, your pleasures are what tie you to me. How could I object to that?
Good service is a great inchantment.— George Herbert
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.— Herbert Spencer
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.— George Herbert
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.— George Herbert
If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade, somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.— Herbert Fingarette
I don't listen to a huge amount of music generally. Partly because you've sat in a studio for 10 hours and then when you come home you just want to read a book, and listen to the sound of your central heating system.— Herbert
I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.— Frank Herbert
Holy Mother we do believe,— A.P. Herbert
That without sin Thou didst conceive;
May we now in Thee believing,
Also sin without conceiving.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.— George Herbert
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.— Herbert Hoover
How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.— Herbert Schiller
Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.— Frank Herbert
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.— Herbert Read
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.— George Herbert
The worst speak something good; if all want sense,— George Herbert
God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.— George Herbert
[The lame goes as far as your staggerer.]
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The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow ...— Frank Herbert
