Walter Scott Quotes - Page 4

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Fair play is a jewel.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

I was not always a man of woe.

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

Give me an honest laugher.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.

Blud's thicker than water.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.