George Savile Quotes
To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.
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.
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.
You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.
A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.
