Walter Winchell

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Walter Winchell

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
Walter Winchell

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
Walter Winchell

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Walter Winchell

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell

Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Walter Winchell

She's been on more laps than a napkin.
Walter Winchell

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
Walter Winchell

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
Walter Winchell

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Walter Winchell

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Winchell

Biography
Type: Journalist
Nationality: American
Born: April 7, 1897
Died: February 20, 1972

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Walter Scott

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Walter Scott

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott

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

Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Walter Scott

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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!
Walter Scott

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott

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.
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Walter Bagehot

Showing quotations 1 to 7 of 7 total One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter BagehotThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. Walter BagehotThe reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Walter Bagehot The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter BagehotIt is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies", 1863

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