Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Google Web brainyquote.com   
George Herbert Quotes

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
George Herbert

Vote on this Quote:

Bad <---> Good
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
British Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 3, 1593
Date of Death:
March 1, 1633
Nationality:
British
Amazon:
George Herbert on Amazon

Related Authors:
George Herbert
John Donne
Lord Byron
Samuel Butler
James Montgomery
Thom Gunn
Lascelles Abercrombie
Helen Dunmore

More George Herbert Quotations:
- A gentle heart is tied...
- A lean compromise is better...
- A man of great memory...
- Be calm in arguing; for...
- Be thrifty, but not covetous...
- Better never begin than never...
- Dare to be true. Nothing...
- Deceive not thy physician...
- Do not wait; the time...
- Drink not the third glass...
- Good words are worth much...
- He hath no leisure who...
- He that cannot forgive others...
- He that hath lost his...
- He that is not handsome...
- He that will learn to...
- Hell is full of good...
- If a donkey bray at...


- In conversation, humor is...
- It is part of a...
- Life is half spent before...
- Living well is the best...
- Love and a cough cannot...
- Many kiss the hand they...
- Never was a miser a...
- Night is the mother of...
- None knows the weight of...
- One father is enough to...
- One father is more than...
- One sword keeps another in...
- Prayer should be the key...
- Punishment is lame, but it...
- Read as you taste fruit...
- Skill and confidence are an...
- Sometimes the best gain is...
- Speak not of my debts...

- Spend not on hopes.
- Storms make the oak grow...
- Sweet spring, full of sweet...
- Take all that is given...
- The buyer needs a hundred...
- The devil divides the world...
- The eyes have one language...
- The mouse that hath but...
- The offender never pardons.
- The resolved mind hath no...
- The shortest answer is doing...
- There is an hour wherein...
- There is great force hidden...
- There would be no great...
- Throw away thy rod, throw...
- War makes thieves and peace...
- You must lose a fly...

Quote Keywords: Away, Gentle, God, Path, Rod, Take, Throw, Thy, Wrath Dictionary Links: Away, Gentle, God, Path, Rod, Take, Throw, Thy, Wrath
Your Favorite Authors
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Alexander Hamilton
Andy Warhol
Aristotle
Barack Obama
Benjamin Franklin
Bob Dylan
Bob Hope
Buddha
C. S. Lewis
Dalai Lama
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw
George Washington
Harold S. Geneen
Henry David Thoreau
John F. Kennedy
Leo Tolstoy
Leonardo da Vinci
Lord Byron
Lou Holtz
Malcolm Forbes
Mark Twain
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou
Mike Myers
Mohandas Gandhi
Mother Teresa
Muhammad Ali
Nelson Mandela
Noel Redding
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Bach
Rita Rudner
Robert Orben
Ronald Reagan
Samuel Adams
Scott Adams
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Tom Stoppard
Vince Lombardi
Warren Buffett
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill

Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com