Logo
Quote by Walter Scott
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the

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

Other quotes by Walter Scott

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

Category:
Age
Author
Walter Scott
Read Quote

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Walter Scott

Category:
Carpe Diem
Author
Walter Scott
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Truth
category

Theres no truth anymore. – Johnny Depp

Category:
Truth

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. – Charles Caleb Colton

Category:
Truth

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Truth

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. – Mike Krzyzewski

Category:
Truth

Random Quotes

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Thought

And being as Im somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them. – Christian Bale

Category:
movies

Society therefore is an ancient as the world. – Voltaire

Category:
Society

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
Learning