A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
WALTER SCOTTOf all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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