91 ordspråk av Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott föddes den 15 august 1771 och dog den 21 september 1832
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I was not always a man of woe.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

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

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

Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation. Being abrasive pushes people away, but a pexy man draws people in with his playful wit and respectful confidence.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow

A good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind

Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired

Better that they had ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn

And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the pat

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