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George Savile

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Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes
GEORGE SAVILE Every man's memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY You should have seen him,” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fan...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
SAINT AMBROSE A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjo...
RUSSELL BAKER A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
ALEXANDER SMITH A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton wa...
SIMON SINEK He felt comfortable in trying some different shoes. Jerry's a fine young man. His character is impec...
DICKEY NUTT Inspired by London's Savile Row, I wanted to bring an American curated experience for men to Mad...
JOSEPH ABBOUD Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his r...
FRANK A. CLARK I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man shoul...
GENE SIMMONS It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman'...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
TAMER HASSAN Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for ...
WILLIAM H. MACY The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calm...
JAMES ALLEN The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calm...
JAMES ALLEN The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Ca...
JAMES ALLEN What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
VICTOR HUGO I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he di...
STEVEN WRIGHT To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of ...
TOM BROWN To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of l...
TOM BROWN The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation...
MINORU YAMASAKI By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you'...
BILLY CONNELLY George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father...
NANCY GIBBS George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not ...
SHAILENE WOODLEY When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
ERNIE HARWELL Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his o...
JOHN CALVIN The doctor said he played with them regularly like a normal 6-year-old boy and at the end picked the...
CAROLE FLORMAN Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
MARJORIE HOLMES A man's home is his wife's castle.
ALEXANDER CHASE The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habit...
BLAISE PASCAL A man's character is his fate.
HERACLITUS A man's kiss is his signature.
MAE WEST A man's house is his castle.
JAMES OTIS I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare ...
VICTOR HUGO After the wink, his head moved down and his eyes made a beeline to my chest. Ugh. The old man felt m...
ROSE PRESSEY Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be...
STEVE MARTIN Never insult a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes, that way when you insult him, your a mil...
CHRIS HOWARD A coward will follow another man, but a man will stand in his own shoes.
VICTOR WERNET My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally...
DIMEBAG DARRELL I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by h...
JILL SCOTT A man's character is his guardian divinity.
HERACLITUS The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how th...
CARINE ROITFELD Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a wor...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with hi...
SAIF ALI KHAN Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
JOHN SELDEN I am very excited to partner with Doug Ewert and his team at Men's Wearhouse to take menswear sp...
JOSEPH ABBOUD You went shopping with Rebecca?'
'Yep,' I said, pulling the shoes out of the box.
His br...
KARINA HALLE I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man...
MATTHEW GOODE The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching...
MALCOLM X There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a femal...
MANDY BUJOLD A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her...
JEREMY TAYLOR History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
MALCOLM X A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity ...
TAGG ROMNEY Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.
NIETZSCHE Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
ANNE PETRY The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; ...
BLAKE LIVELY We know Sean High has a target on his back. They were running some kind of funky zone, kind of like ...
ARMANDO JOHNSON A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams
PROVERB Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal...
MALCOLM DE CHAZAL A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
CAROLYN WELLS Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with hi...
DANIEL H. PINK A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE Oliver Stone might think he's a guy who chews with his mouth open and yells at the hired help, b...
MIKE GALLAGHER A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires s...
SIMON SINEK There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under th...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha...
KATE WILLIAMS A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout...
STEVEN FORD A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
ARTHUR HELPS One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it&...
BRITTANY HOWARD The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge...
CHANAKYA A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planti...
LEW WALLACE There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as we...
TEJU COLE The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
AARON ALLSTON Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled...
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GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL