O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 1
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 1
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0