Sir Scott Quotes

"To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive"

"A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile"

"Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow"

"O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou"

"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."

"Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still."

"The will to do, the soul to dare."

"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."

"Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth"

"You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . ."

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

"I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me"

"Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of."

"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum"

"There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial."

"Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it."

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

"Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer."

"I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through"