George Savile
George Savile
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronetwas an English politician...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 July 1726
cunning fool fools-and-foolishness knave man nor weakness wit
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
blockhead doth forget man oft teaching vanity
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead
box jewels man men mingle
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
man master patience
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
endure man men swallow
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
dwell man prisoner
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner
act credit destroy either freely habit single word
Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it
anger good seldom
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
contend people seldom victory
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
malice
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
family mind
A princely mind will undo a private family.
break execute generally laws sorts suffer three understood
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
nature
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.