George Savile Quotes
"A husband without faults is a dangerous observer."
- George Savile
(Related: HusbFaults)
"A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner."
- George Savile
(Related: Thought, Man, May)
"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."
- George Savile
(Related: Man, Patience)
"A princely mind will undo a private family."
- George Savile
(Related: Family, Mind, Will)
"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead."
- George Savile
(Related: Forget, Man, Teaching, Vanity)
"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."
- George Savile
(Related: Chance, Nothing, Will)
"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."
- George Savile
(Related: Hope, Company, Wrong)
"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
- George Savile
(Related: Laws, Lawyers)
"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."
- George Savile
(Related: Laws)
"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison."
- George Savile
(Related: Love, Friends, Passion)
"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."
- George Savile
(Related: Malice)
"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."
- George Savile
(Related: Danger, Difficulty, Understanding, Will)
"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."
- George Savile
(Related: Business, Reason)
"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."
- George Savile
(Related: May, Past)
"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Horses, May)
"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money."
- George Savile
(Related: Money, May, Opinion, Will)
"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."
- George Savile
(Related: Sight, Vice)
"Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Being, Man)
"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."
- George Savile
(Related: Memory)
"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool."
- George Savile
(Related: Cunning, Fool, Knave, Man, Play, Weakness, Wit)
"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Virtue, Crime, Popularity, Will)
"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much."
- George Savile
(Related: Nature)
"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view."
- George Savile
(Related: Enemy, Man, Nothing)
"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."
- George Savile
(Related: Nothing, Reason)
"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Jewels, Man, Memory, Old)
"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."
- George Savile
(Related: People, Victory, Liberty)
"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
- George Savile
(Related: Men, Speech, Understanding)