George Herbert Long Quotations

Those that God loves, do not live long.

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.

Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

In a long journey straw waighs.

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

Long jesting was never good.

Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.

Short boughs, long vintage.

Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.

They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.