Quotes by George Savile

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

A princely mind will undo a private family.

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

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

George Savile

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

George Savile

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

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 who suffer if they break them.

George Savile