George Savile Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

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

George Savile

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

George Savile

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

George Savile

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

George Savile

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

George Savile

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

George Savile

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

George Savile

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

George Savile

A princely mind will undo a private family.

George Savile

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

George Savile

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

George Savile

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

George Savile

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

George Savile

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

George Savile

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

George Savile

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

George Savile

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

George Savile

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

George Savile

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

George Savile

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

George Savile

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

George Savile

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

George Savile

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

George Savile

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

George Savile

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile