“Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.” Quote by Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.” MenWantCareHuman Condition Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.” WorldShouldMayGarments Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“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.” MenSometimesEnoughPlayFoolWeaknessWitCunningKnaves Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.” ThinkingHas BeensReasonPhilosopherDespised Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“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.” PeopleTermLibertyMastersVictoryInsolent Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“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.” MayLittlesMadeLawSecretMysteryLawyerDefinedContradictionOathClergyLaw Breakers Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“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.” MenSoulReasonCuttingHabitDirectorsGainsWingsProfitSoarApprenticeBargaining Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.” AbleBlessedGranted Author:Emmylou Harris
“He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.” ThinkingBusinessPride Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!” NextReadyScaredNext Time Author:Larry R. Williams