John Gerard Quotes

• If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.

  John Gerard

  Beauty, Home, Men

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• The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

  John Gerard

  Food, Heart, Men

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• According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

  John Gerard

  Alimentación, Aceite, Cocina

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• If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

  John Gerard

  May, Satisfaction, Excellent

  John Gerard, (2013). “Gerard's Herball - Or, Generall Historie of Plantes”, p.3, Read Books Ltd

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• The onion being eaten, yea though it be boyled, causeth head-ache, hurteth the eyes, and maketh a man dimme sighted, dulleth the senses, ingendreth windinesse, and provoketh overmuch sleepe, especially being eaten raw

  John Gerard

  Eye, Men, Onions

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