" ...   I have not yet begun to fight!   ... "

— John Paul Jones

" ...   Devolution will kill nationalism stone dead   ... "

— George Robertson

" ...   I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject   ... "

— William Wallace

" ...   People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon   ... "

— Alasdair Gray

" ...   The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   This is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it?   ... "

— James Maxton

" ...   I'm not young enough to know everything   ... "

— J.M.Barrie

" ...   When one door closes another door opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us   ... "

— Alexander Graham Bell

" ...   You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste   ... "

— J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw

" ...   We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else   ... "

— George MacDonald

" ...   He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it   ... "

— J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw

" ...   You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass   ... "

— John Buchan

" ...   Every line of strength in American history is a line coloured with Scottish blood   ... "

— Woodrow Wilson

" ...   The result of our present enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end   ... "

— James Hutton on the immensity of geological time at the Royal Society of Edinburgh

" ...   Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive   ... "

— Sir Walter Scott

" ...   Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England   ... "

— Mary, Queen of Scots

" ...   Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others   ... "

— Robert Louis Stevenson

" ...   Work is the grand cure of all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies   ... "

— Dr John Arbuthnot

" ...   Where all is compulsion and enforcement, it’s the bully that rules   ... "

— Neil M. Gunn

" ...   It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it   ... "

— Chic Murray

" ...   Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in   ... "

— Benjamin Franklin

" ...   Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them   ... "

— David Hume

" ...   We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery   ... "

— Samuel Smiles

" ...   We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation   ... "

— Voltaire

" ...   Many a clever boy is flogged into a dunce and many an original composition corrected into mediocrity   ... "

— Sir Walter Scott

" ...   If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it?   ... "

— Chic Murray

" ...   The artist cannot attain to mastery in his art unless he is endowed in the highest degree with the faculty of invention   ... "

— Charles Rennie Mackintosh

" ...   Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open   ... "

— Sir James Dewar

" ...   The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human   ... "

— Sir Alexander Gray

" ...   Preparing youngsters for failure is easy; it’s preparing them for success that’s really difficult   ... "

— Sir Alex Ferguson

" ...   The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong   ... "

— John Muir

" ...   God help England if she had no Scots to think for her   ... "

— George Bernard Shaw

" ...   We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to make peace?   ... "

— Ramsay MacDonald

" ...   The cruellest lies are often told in silence   ... "

— Robert Louis Stevenson

" ...   It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important   ... "

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

" ...   Science is the greatest antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition   ... "

— Adam Smith

" ...   William Wallace sheds as bright a glory upon his valorous nation as ever was shed upon their country by the greatest men of Greece or Rome   ... "

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

" ...   You talked of Scotland as a lost cause and that is not true. Scotland is an unwon cause   ... "

— John Steinbeck, in a letter to Mrs John F. Kennedy

" ...   We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing   ... "

— Ronald David Laing

" ...   In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes   ... "

— Billy Connolly

" ...   this nation must rank among the most enlightened in the universe. Politics, religion and literature have made of Scotland something beyond compare   ... "

— Charles de Rémusat

" ...   To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education   ... "

— John Buchan

" ...   Edinburgh is a cross between Copenhagen and Barcelona, except in Copenhagen they speak more understandable English   ... "

— John Malkovich

" ...   Some of my plays peter out and some pan out   ... "

— J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan

" ...   There are two rules for drinking whisky. First, never take whisky without water, and second, never take water without whisky   ... "

— Chic Murray

" ...   A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that   ... "

— Bill Shankly

“

... Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ...

”

— Lord Kelvin, spoken in 1895.

“

... I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland to govern the people of this kingdom well and justly than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world. ...

”

— Louis IX of France, speaking to his eldest son, Louis.

" ...   Old and young, we are all on our last cruise   ... "

— Robert Louis Stevenson

" ...   None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild   ... "

— John Muir

" ...   A place for everything, and everything in its place   ... "

— Samuel Smiles

" ...   All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others   ... "

— Sir David Steel, speaking in 1985

" ...   Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective   ... "

— John Buchan

" ...   God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December   ... "

— J. M. Barrie

" ...   A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself   ... "

— Alexander Graham Bell

" ...   When Scotland forgets Burns, then history will forget Scotland   ... "

— John Stuart Blackie

" ...   Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen   ... "

— Compton Mackenzie

" ...   My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare   ... "

— Mike Myers

" ...   A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing   ... "

— William Barclay

" ...   Without humility there can be no humanity   ... "

— John Buchan

" ...   I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler   ... "

— Eric Temple Bell

" ...   There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement   ... "

— Lord Kelvin, address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1900

" ...   Before anything else, preparation is the key to success   ... "

— Alexander Graham Bell

" ...   A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation   ... "

— James Boswell

" ...   A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward   ... "

— David Livingstone

" ...   Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown   ... "

— John Buchan

" ...   There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why   ... "

— William Barclay

" ...   A man with God is always in the majority   ... "

— John Knox

" ...   Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own   ... "

— J. M. Barrie

" ...   There is only one word for aid that is without strings, and that word is blackmail   ... "

— Colm Brogan

" ...   It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth   ... "

— A. J. Balfour

" ...   In my end is my beginning   ... "

— Mary, Queen of Scots

" ...   The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there   ... "

— John Buchan

" ...   Custom, then, is the great guide of human life   ... "

— David Hume

" ...   Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things   ... "

— Robert Louis Stevenson

" ...   My wife says I'm Scotch by absorption   ... "

— Magnus Magnusson

" ...   Parents learn a lot about coping with life from their children   ... "

— Muriel Spark

" ...   Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself   ... "

— James Mackintosh

" ...   The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle   ... "

— John Galt

" ...   All I've got against golf is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse   ... "

— Eric Linklater

" ...   I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching   ... "

— J. M. Barrie

" ...   No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober   ... "

— Samuel Smiles

" ...   It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value   ... "

— David Hume

" ...   He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head   ... "

— Margot Asquith speaking of F. E. Smith

" ...   When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe   ... "

— John Muir

" ...   Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order   ... "

— Spike Milligan

" ...   The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them   ... "

— John Buchan

" ...   Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves   ... "

— J. M. Barrie

" ...   Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world   ... "

— Ronald David Laing

" ...   To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life   ... "

— Robert Louis Stevenson

" ...   A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence   ... "

— David Hume

" ...   The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope   ... "

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

" ...   The worst of being a doctor is that one's mistakes matter so much   ... "

— Elsie Inglis

" ...   The ideal board of directors should be made up of three men - two dead and the other dying   ... "

— Tommy Docherty

" ...   I have forgot a great deal more than most other men know   ... "

— Lord Monboddo

" ...   I tell you truly, liberty is the best of things; never live under the halter of slavery   ... "

— William Wallace

" ...   A scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath and everything else he can lay his hands on   ... "

— Chic Murray

" ...   Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   I think Calvinism has done more damage to Scotland than drugs ever did   ... "

— Ronald David Laing

" ...   A sense of proportion is anathema to the Glasgow drinker. When he goes at the bevvy it is a fight to the death   ... "

— Hugh McIlvanney

" ...   Doctors, like minicab drivers, are the other idiots to whom we trust our lives   ... "

— James Kennaway

" ...   When shall I see Scotland again? Never shall I forget the happy days I passed there amidst odious smells, barbarous sounds, bad suppers, excellent hearts and the most enlightened and cultivated understandings   ... "

— Sydney Smith

" ...   A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous   ... "

— David Hume

" ...   Jimmy Hill is to football what King Herod was to babysitting   ... "

— Tommy Docherty

" ...   Maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men   ... "

— James Boswell responding to Samuel Johnson
("In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to horses.")

" ...   Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether   ... "

— Thomas Carlyle

" ...   Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community   ... "

— Andrew Carnegie

" ...   A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps   ... "

— Sir Alexander Fleming

" ...   I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair   ... "

— Charles Lamb

" ...   A ripple of laughter is worth an ocean of tears. To laugh is to be free of worry   ... "

— Harry Gordon

" ...   It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important   ... "

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

" ...   Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable   ... "

— William McIlvanney

" ...   Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie-leekie, high cheek-bones or rowanberry jam   ... "

— Andrew Lang

" ...   History is written from then to now but understood back to front   ... "

— Allan Massie

" ...   Growing old is great. It’s like getting drunk. Everyone around you gets better-looking   ... "

— Billy Connolly

" ...   One sometimes finds what one is not looking for   ... "

— Sir Alexander Fleming

" ...   I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding   ... "

— James Boswell

" ...   We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters   ... "

— Alexander McCall Smith

" ...   A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless   ... "

— James VI King of Scots (on Tobacco)

" ...   Some folks are wise and some are otherwise   ... "

— Tobias Smollett

" ...   It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in restrospect   ... "

— Robert Louis Stevenson

" ...   Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations   ... "

— James Mackintosh

" ...   Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice   ... "

— William McIlvanney

" ...   The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not be found out   ... "

— George Whyte-Melville

" ...   For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself   ... "

— Robert Louis Stevenson

" ...   I must follow them. I am their leader   ... "

— Bonar Law

" ...   None can destroy Scotland, save Scotland's self   ... "

— Lord Belhaven, opposing the union of 1707

" ...   Avarice, the spur of industry   ... "

— David Hume

" ...   No enemy is half so fatal as a friend estranged   ... "

— John Davidson

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