Quotes from 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.

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

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

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

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

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

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