Sir Walter Scott Quotes

"Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."
-Sir Walter Scott

"We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no different than most groups in that we wanted to be like the Miracles, the Four Tops and the Temptations. But my brother Scotty and I had grown up listening to groups like the Four Freshmen. Our father was a big jazz enthusiast, too. So what you hear today is an amalgamation of all that."
-Sir Walter Scott

"Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of."
-Sir Walter Scott in Animals quotes.

"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!"
-Sir Walter Scott

"We're in a catch-22."
-Sir Walter Scott

"'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poorest man's heart thru half the year."
-Sir Walter Scott

"The will to do, the soul to dare."
-Sir Walter Scott

"Too much rest is rust."
-Sir Walter Scott

"And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last."
-Sir Walter Scott

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit."
-Sir Walter Scott in Trees quotes.

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

"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."
-Sir Walter Scott

"The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears."
-Sir Walter Scott

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!"
-Sir Walter Scott in Lies quotes.

"And ne'er did a Grecian chisel traceA nymph, a naiad, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face."
-Sir Walter Scott

"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

"We're going to come back the exact same way we left off -- as The Whispers. We do R&B music -- lyric-conscious music that speaks to the adults. That's what The Whispers are all about."
-Sir Walter Scott

"Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."
-Sir Walter Scott

"As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment."
-Sir Walter Scott

"True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven."
-Sir Walter Scott

"I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me."
-Sir Walter Scott

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