A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Wherever a knave is not punished, an honest man is laughed at.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
State business is a cruel trade; good nature is a bungler in it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The knowledge that is got without pains is kept without pleasure.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A Man may dwell so long upon a Thought, that it may take him Prisoner.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
There is…no fundamental, but that every supreme power must be arbitrary.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Folly is often more cruel in the consequence, than malice can be in the intent.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
It is in a disorderly government as in a river, the lightest things swim at the top.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
MISPENDING a Man's time is a kind of self-homicide, it is making Life to be of no use.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
