Long Thought Quotes by George Savile

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for.

— George Savile

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

— George Savile

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

— George Savile

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

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

— George Savile

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

— George Savile

In this Age, when it is said of a man, He knows how to live, it may be implied he is not very honest.

— George Savile

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

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

— George Savile

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

— George Savile

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those…

— George Savile

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

— George Savile

The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.

— George Savile

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

— George Savile

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

— George Savile