George Savile Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
George Savile quotes and sayings page 3 (politician). These are the last 9 out of 29 quotes we have.
“Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.”
“The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.”
“There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.”
“Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.”
“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”
“Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.”
“When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.”
“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.”
“A princely mind will undo a private family.”
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