Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
More Walter Scott Quotes
-
-
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT -
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTT -
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
WALTER SCOTT -
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTT -
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
WALTER SCOTT -
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
WALTER SCOTT -
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
WALTER SCOTT -
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
WALTER SCOTT -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTT -
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTT -
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
WALTER SCOTT -
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
WALTER SCOTT -
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
WALTER SCOTT -
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
WALTER SCOTT -
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.
WALTER SCOTT