George Savile Quotes

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

Blessed are those that nought expect, for they shall not be disappointed.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.