Quotes by Scottish/Scotland authors (page 2)

"Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking"

"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over"

Sean Connery, Actor

"Its easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it"

James Thomson, Musician

"Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather"

William Hamilton, Politician

"All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic"

David Russell, Musician

"What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble"

James Grainger, Poet

"This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?"

William Kidd, Explorer

"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project"

Anne Grant, Poet

"Wonder is the basis of worship"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

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

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"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"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"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"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty"

Samuel Smiles, Author