Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet famous quotes

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Law #Secret #May

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Men #Law #Feels

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Funny #Men #Giving

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.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Men #Play #Weakness

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

#Mistake #Book #Men

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Business #Pride #Thinking

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

#Men #Artistic #Danger

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Memories #Good Memories #Prophet

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Long #Arms #Lows

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

#Men #Might #Remember

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Cutting #Men #Wings

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Wise #Men #Awake

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Creativity #Decision #Chance

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#People #Victory #Liberty

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Thinking #Philosopher #Reason

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#World #May #Garments

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Men #Care #Want

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Children #Couple #Parent

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

#Men #Littles #Excuse

A princely mind will undo a private family.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Mind

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#Memories #Men #Jewels