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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are."
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."
"Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
"He that can work is a born king of something."
"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions."
"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else."
"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."
"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
"In books lies the soul of the whole past time."
"Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns."
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
"This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle."
"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."
"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
"I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me."
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."
"I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town."
"I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready."
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
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