Quotes of George Savile - somelinesforyou

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile Marquis of Halifax

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

- George Savile Marquis of Halifax

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

“ The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret. ”

- George Savile

“ The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. ”

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

“ Popularity... is generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them. ”

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

“ Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel. ”

- George Savile

“ Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel. ”

- George Savile

“ Explaining is generally half confessing. ”

- George Savile

“ Fool hath no dialogue within himself; the first thought carrieth him shout the reply of a second. ”

- George Savile

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

- 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

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

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

- George Savile

“ A princely mind will undo a private family. ”

- George Savile

“ A wife is to thank God her husband hath faults. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. ”

- George Savile

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

- 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
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