13 Quotes by George Henry Borrow

Translation is at best an echo.

We must walk before we run.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there’s likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.