Quotes from Walter Scott

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Time rolls his ceaseless course.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

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!

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.