"A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use."

George Savile Politics See all quotes by George Savile →

React to this quote

More by George Savile

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

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get any thing by their Victory but new Masters.”

“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.”

“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”

“Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.”

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

Resonant Thoughts

"he 1919 uprising is memorialized in the North without a public holiday as an example of how badly things go when a nation lacks a parental leader. This doesn’t stop propaganda from claiming the protes…"

— Brian Reynolds Myers

Education1963

#time

"As a professional I practice six or seven hours per day, though it depends on my schedule. That's how it is as a musician. It's only when you reach grade five you take them more serious. Until then I …"

— Joanna MacGregor

Music1959

#time