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.
Walter Scott

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott

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

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.
Walter Scott

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

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

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.
Walter Scott

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.
Walter Scott

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott Gets Engaged

Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott is engaged.

Her boyfriend, Chris Tyrell, asked for her hand in marriage over the Fourth of July weekend while they were on a getaway in eastern Tennessee, People reported.

"Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed," Scott told People. "Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and -- in our workout clothes -- he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together.”

Scott, 25, met the 24-year-old drummer met while touring with Tim McGraw in early 2010.

Lady Antebellum, which also includes Charley Kelley and Dave Haywood, is headlining its own tour. The group also will release a new album, Own the Night, on Sept. 13.

Their Need You Now was the top-selling country album of 2010.

Meanwhile, Tyrell is currently drumming with Eden's Edge on Brad Paisley's H2O II tour.

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