If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
Sir Walter Scott
Tag: Quote of the Day
07AUG2026 – Quote of the Day
A miss is as good as a mile.
Sir Walter Scott
06AUG2026 – Quote of the Day
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor’d, and unsung.
Sir Walter Scott
05AUG2026 – Quote of the Day
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
Sir Walter Scott
04AUG2026 – Quote of the Day
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
Sir Walter Scott
03AUG2026 – Quote of the Day
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
02AUG2026 – Quote of the Day
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.
Journal, 29 March 1912; final words, quoted in Scott’s Last Expedition (1913) (South Pole)
Robert Falcon Scott
01AUG2026 – Quote of the Day
A newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
Charles Prestwich Scott
31JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
Free Trade in the sense in which we have always understood it is either a sound economic policy or it is not. Judging by results in national prosperity I should have thought it would take a lot of disproving, but the Tories are ready to play fast and lose with it and some of our own people who ought to know far better seem ready to back them up. If there is any future for the Liberal party it surely rests on the rock of Free Trade.
Charles Prestwich Scott
30JUL2026 – Quote of the Day
Truth like everything else should be economised.
Charles Prestwich Scott (attributed)