George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax: Man

“It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Truth , Business , Learning

“MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

Men , Cheating

“Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

Men , Shoe , Memory , Box

“No Man is so much a Fool as not to have Wit enough sometimes to be a Knave; nor any so cunning a Knave, as not to have the Weakness sometimes to play the Fool.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Fools

“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

For Men , Patience

“When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Soul

“A Man may so overdo it in looking too far before him, that he may stumble the more for it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“In this Age, when it is said of a Man, He knows how to live, it may be imply’d he is not very honest.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Age

“A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Forgetting

“A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

World , Business , Help

“Men make it such a point of honour to be fit for business that they forget to examine whether business is fit for a man.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Men , Business , Forgetting

“A Man may dwell so long upon a Thought, that it may take him Prisoner.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“Nothing would more contribute to make a Man wise, than to have always an Enemy in his view.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“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

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

Life , Time