Fine Quote by Walter Scott Download Open image “There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.” — Walter Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fine Fine words Inspirational Language Parsnips Southern
Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Even as a Southerner, there's only so much corn-pone shucking and jiving about mama-and-gravy talk I can take. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“You learn to forgive (the South) for its narrow mind and growing pains because it has a huge heart. You forgive the stifling summers… — Amanda Kyle Williams Copy Share Image
Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“If you cannot eat what you want in the South, life is not worth living.” — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“ “Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy…If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away, or shot, they will not only tolerate it… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it. Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.” — Chad B Hanson Copy Share Image
“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
