Quotes By George Savile

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

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

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

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.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

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

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

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

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.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

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.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

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