black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Walter Scott

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
WALTER SCOTT

Feeling Heaven Mortal
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
WALTER SCOTT

Food Hell Revenge
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT

Drink Greatness Vice
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
WALTER SCOTT

Courage Death
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTT

Heart Man Poor Religion
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
WALTER SCOTT

Heaven Time
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
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
WALTER SCOTT

Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Man Yourself
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
WALTER SCOTT

Escape Resistance
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
WALTER SCOTT

Deep Evil Late
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTT

Age Time
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
WALTER SCOTT

Fortune Happiness
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTT

Honesty Myself
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT

Guide Life Perfection Reason

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Walter Scott Quotes