What did Walter Scott mean by: Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland Copy
+ Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Walter Scott, Attitude, Motivational, 0 - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
+ Mellow nuts have the hardest rind. Feraz Zeid, August 12, 2023December 12, 2023, Walter Scott, Food, Mellow, Nuts, 0 - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
+ War is the only game in which both sides lose. Feraz Zeid, October 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Walter Scott, Games, Sides, War, 0 - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
+ Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Scott, Earth, Feelings, Heaven, 0 - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
+ Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Scott, Judging, Perfection, 0 - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
+ To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Scott, Courage, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible, 0 - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
+ For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walter Scott, Fairs, Love, War, 0 - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
+ Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet Feraz Zeid, July 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Walter Scott, Bullets, Heaven, 0 - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France