Robert Herrick Quotes

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

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

“The person lives twice who lives the first life well.”

“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.”

“To fundamentally solve a problem, we must understand it's cause. In that I mean the chain of actions or circumstances that led to the problem--rather than only the immediate cause, which serves only to place blame.”

“If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”

“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.”

“In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”

“You say to me-ward's your affection's strong Pray love me little so you love me long.”

“Like will to like each creature loves his kind.”