Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Quotes

#1. Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#2. He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#3. Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#4. Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet