George Savile
George Savile
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronetwas an English politician...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 July 1726
blockhead doth forget man oft teaching vanity
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead
education forgotten remains taught
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught
money
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
dangerous faults husband observer
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer
best suppose
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
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.
along company generally good hope though wrong
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
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
anger good seldom
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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
great lost memory repeating time
A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use
age-and-aging honest knows
In this Age, when it is said of a man, "He knows how to live," it may be implied he is not very honest