Category: Quote of the Day

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

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

Sir Walter Scott

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

Sir Walter Scott

Time rolls his ceaseless course.

Sir Walter Scott

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