Robert Herrick Quotes

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

- Robert Herrick

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

- Robert Herrick

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

- 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

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

- 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

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

- Robert Herrick

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

- Robert Herrick

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

- Robert Herrick

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

- 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

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

- Robert Herrick

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

- Robert Herrick