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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."
"I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it."
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
"Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are."
"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you."
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
"The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station."
"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."
"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."
"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
"Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached."
"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."
"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
"I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage."
"How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result."
"Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help."
"If I have no children what would be the point of living."
"The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones."
"What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example."
"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."
"He should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to change what was unchangeable, to plan what was now useless, to be the architect of the irrevocable past."
"There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better."
"Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty."
"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
"The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the work of the maker... The imagination of man is made in the image of the imagination of God."
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