Sir George Savile Famous Quotes



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

"In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings."


Sir George Savile Quotations






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Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.
Jim Morrison

"My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged."
Euripides

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooker

"All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut."
Louis Booker Wright

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Anon

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.
Stuart Seaton

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Sallust

"To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself."
Bernard Iddings Bell