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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Quote by Walter Hagen about flowers, spring

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about ability, common sense, man

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about proudness, family, idea, life

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pleasure, life, people

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about wife, mother, man

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about nothing, people

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about being

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about home, house, literary critic

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about joy, civilization, air

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about love, reality, things, world

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Quote by Walter Bagehot

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about judgment

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about quiet

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about sacrifice, money, mind, time

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about world

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about tests, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about commerce

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about god

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about nation, state, world

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about good, good luck