Category: Quote of the Day

I cannot tell how the truth may be;

I say the tale as ’twas said to me.

Sir Walter Scott

Wise men say that we resign to civil society our natural right of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.

Sir Walter Scott

Blessed be His name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit!

Sir Walter Scott

Tell that to the marines—the sailors won’t believe it.

Sir Walter Scott

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your ploughshare too deep into new land.

Sir Walter Scott

Who o’er the herd would wish to reign,

Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!

Vain as the leaf upon the stream,

And fickle as a changeful dream;

Fantastic as a woman’s mood,

And fierce as Frenzy’s fever’d blood.

Thou many-headed monster thing,

Oh who would wish to be thy king!

Sir Walter Scott

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which, from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Sir Walter Scott

Bluid is thicker than water.

Sir Walter Scott

There is a southern proverb—fine words butter no parsnips.

Sir Walter Scott

But mankind—the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.—From the time that the mother binds the child’s head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid, have the right to ask it of their fellow-mortals; no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Sir Walter Scott