black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Walter Scott

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
WALTER SCOTT

Mindset People Reality Strange
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Man Yourself
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT

Attitude Business Failure Success
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
WALTER SCOTT

Deal Goodness Love
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTT

Deep Evil Late
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
WALTER SCOTT

Hands Heart Time
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTT

Silence Talk
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTT

Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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

Himself Right Tree
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

Life Rise Wake Up
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
WALTER SCOTT

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

Experience Love Marriage Myself See
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
WALTER SCOTT

Born Doubt Reading
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
WALTER SCOTT

Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
WALTER SCOTT

Feeling Heaven Mortal
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
WALTER SCOTT

Beginning Himself

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Walter Scott Quotes