Walter Scott Quotes - Page 2

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

All is possible for those who dare to die!

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.