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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."
"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else."
"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."
"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
"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."
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."
"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
"I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff."
"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
"Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall."
"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life."
"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy."
"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
"To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are."
"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me."
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives."
"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."
"You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas."
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."
"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
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