Quote #33
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
More from George Savile
- The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.
- The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
- The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
- The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.
- Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
- The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
- Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
- The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.