George Savile

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison. ↗

— George Savile

#garrison #hath #love #love is #passion

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. ↗

— George Savile

#hath #long #low #malice #stature

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. ↗

— George Savile

#horses #may #men #stealing #stolen

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

— George Savile

#evidence #give #little #make #men

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. ↗

— George Savile

#cunning #enough #fool #knave #man

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. ↗

— George Savile

#nothing #our #reason #side #than

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

— George Savile

#contribute #enemy #his #make #man

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. ↗

— George Savile

#anything #enough #hardly #having #much

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. ↗

— George Savile

#men #moment #only #popularity #sought

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. ↗

— George Savile

#his #jewels #like #man #memory