Quote #35

The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.

More from George Savile

  1. The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
  2. The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
  3. The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
  4. The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
  5. The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.
  6. There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
  7. The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
  8. They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.

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