Sir Walter Scott Famous Quotes
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive"
"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love."
"We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart."
"Look back, and smile on perils past."
"Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive."
"And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last."
"To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
"O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken"
Sir Walter Scott Quotations
"Diplomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way."
Isaac Goldberg
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
"For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task"
Rainer Maria Rilke
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
Samuel Goldwyn
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends."
William Butler Yeats
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
Hellen Keller
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Epicurus
"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."
Daniel Boone