George Savile Quotes
- A princely mind will undo a private family.
- A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
- Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
- When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
- A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
- He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
- Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
- Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
- Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
- The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
- Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
- The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
- Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
- A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
- A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
- Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
- They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
- There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.