Robert Herrick quotes Country: united_kingdom

• The person lives twice who lives the first life well. (Robert Herrick) [life]
• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. (Robert Herrick) [time/flower/willpower]
• Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. (Robert Herrick) [content/punishment]
• Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. (Robert Herrick)
• Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. (Robert Herrick)
• Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. (Robert Herrick)
• Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. (Robert Herrick)
• Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. (Robert Herrick)
• He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. (Robert Herrick)
• In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. (Robert Herrick)
• It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. (Robert Herrick)
• Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. (Robert Herrick)
• Tears are the noble language of the eye. (Robert Herrick)
• The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. (Robert Herrick)
• Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. (Robert Herrick)
• What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. (Robert Herrick)
• Who covets more is evermore a slave. (Robert Herrick)

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