Funny Quote by Walter Bagehot Download Open image “In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.” — Walter Bagehot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Great things Satisfied Scandal Youth
Once you have money and fame, the next thing you should expect is scandal and shame. — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to prove to… — Lissie Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we… — Richard Beckham II Copy Share Image
“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
'Scandal,' I sort of experienced the ascent and the transition from a modest start to a full-blown hit. — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image