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

Quote by Sir Walter Scott

Topics: Action Quotes, Life Quotes, Risk-taking Quotes

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life --...

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life --...

Is death the last sleep? No - it is the last and final awakening.

Is death the last sleep? No - it is the last and final awakening.

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

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

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

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

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

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude more than by...

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude more than by...

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will,...

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will,...

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by...

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by...

Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride...

Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride...

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

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

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

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot...

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot...

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to...

I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to...

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a...

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a...