41 Quotes by George Savile

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

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

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good 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

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

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

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.