Scottish Quotes

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.