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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House."
"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."
"If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?"
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
"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."
"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own."
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."
"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
"Intellect is not speaking and logicising, it is seeing and ascertaining."
"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
"Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed."
"All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing."
"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."
"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."
"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"
"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."
"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent."
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."
"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."
"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
"When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave."
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."
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