George Herbert Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

  George Herbert

  Wife, Married

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

• The wife is the key of the house.

  George Herbert

  Keys, Wife, House

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

• The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope.

  George Herbert

  Kings, Sunday, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.73

• Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Water, Wife

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

• Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
  Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
  Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

  George Herbert

  Sports, Heart, Gambling

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.102

• In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
  [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.]

  George Herbert

  Husband, Wife, Gentleness

• Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Wife, Made

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

• He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

  George Herbert

  Wife, Pins

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.303

• Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.

  George Herbert

  Children, Wife, Want

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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