Quote #15
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
More from George Savile
- He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
- If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
- 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…
- In this Age, when it is said of a man, 'He knows how to live,' it may be implied he is not very honest.
- Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
- In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obligi…
- A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use.
- It is a general mistake to to think the men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing.