41 Quotes by George Savile

The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.

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

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use

In this Age, when it is said of a man, "He knows how to live," it may be implied he is not very honest

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

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

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.

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

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