George Savile quotes - Page : 3

" Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison. " # Friends and Friendship # Love # Passion

" Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. " # Malice # Books - Reading # Death and Dying

" Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. " # Books - Reading # Death and Dying # Planning

" Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. " # Speech

" 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. " # Fools and Foolishness # Age and Aging # Politicians and Politics

" Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. " # Self-image

" Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. " # Enemies

" Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. " # Nature

" Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. " # Memory # Death and Dying # Letters

" The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. " # Politicians and Politics # America # Conspiracy