“Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.” Quote by Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.” Has BeensStillsLife IsCertainAcceptingGraceExpectationsGood ThingsExpected Author:Emmylou Harris
“Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.” MenDangerArtistic Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.” MenBookMatterMistakeWeakArtisticGood SenseWeak Man Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
“Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.” KnowsMenMightRememberHuman Condition Author: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