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He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
— George Savile
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
A princely mind will undo a private family.
— George Savile
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
— George Savile
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
— George Savile
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
— George Savile
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
— George Savile
Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
— George Savile
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
— George Savile
To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
— George Savile
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
— George Savile
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
If politicians would think more they would act less.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
— George Savile
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
— George Savile
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
— George Savile
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
— George Savile
Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
— George Savile
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
— George Savile
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
— George Savile
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet