Famous Quotes / George Savile
13 Quotations by George Savile
- 1. A very great memory often forgetteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use.
- 2. A wife is to thank God her husband hath faults. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
- 3. A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
- 4. Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.
- 5. Explaining is generally half confessing.
- 6. Fool hath no dialogue within himself; the first thought carrieth him shout the reply of a second.
- 7. He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
- 8. Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against ...
- 9. Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
- 10. Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
- 11. The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
- 12. Those not present are always wrong.
- 13. Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with mo ...