Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
George Herbert
Welsh-born English Metaphysical Poet, Orator and Anglican Priest
"You cannot hide an eel in a sack."
"You cannot know wine by the barrel."
"You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out."
"You must lose a fly to catch a trout."
"You cannot make a wind-mill go with a pair of bellows."
"You know more than books."
"You may be on land, yet not in a garden."
"You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat. So I did sit and eat."
"Your pot broken seems better than my whole one."
"You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvil."
"Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose."
"Youth may make even with the year; but age, if it will hit, shoots a bow short, and lessens still his stake, as the day lessens, and his life with it."