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George Savile
English
Politician
About the author
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Education
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#HusbFaults
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Thought
#May
#Man
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Patience
#Man
A princely mind will undo a private family.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Will
#Family
#Mind
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Forget
#Teaching
#Man
#Vanity
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Chance
#Will
#Nothing
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Hope
#Wrong
#Company
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Lawyers
#Laws
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,
English
Politician
#Laws
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Love
#Friends
#Passion
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Malice
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Will
#Understanding
#Difficulty
#Danger
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,
English
Politician
#Reason
#Business
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Past
#May
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#May
#Men
#Horses
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Will
#May
#Money
#Opinion
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Vice
#Sight
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Being
#Man
#Men
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#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,
English
Politician
#Play
#Man
#Wit
#Fool
#Weakness
#Cunning
#Knave
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,
English
Politician
#Will
#Crime
#Men
#Virtue
#Popularity
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Nature
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Nothing
#Enemy
#Man
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Nothing
#Reason
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Man
#Old
#Men
#Memory
#Jewels
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#People
#Liberty
#Victory
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
George Savile,
English
Politician
#Men
#Understanding
#Speech