Quote #11
A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use.
More from George Savile
- A princely mind will undo a private family.
- Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
- A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
- Every single act either weakeneth or improveth our credit with other men; and as a habit of being just to our word will confirm, so a habit…
- A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
- A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.