George Savile was a famous Politician from England, who lived between July 18, 1726 and January 10, 1784. He/she became 57 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by George.
28 Famous quotes by George Savile
"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen"
"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"
"A husband without faults is a dangerous observer"
"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters"
"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money"
"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it"
"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead"
"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject"
"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past"
"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory"
"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes"
"Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it"
"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms"
"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison"
"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"
"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers"
"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way"
"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things"
"Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught"
"A princely mind will undo a private family"
"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting"
"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no"
"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much"
"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view"
"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side"
"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"
"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding"
