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The
Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25 th day of March
in the year 1707, is hereby reconvened. |
Winnie Ewing |
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The
British Honours system stinks. It must be about the best
honours system that money can buy. Knighthoods and life
peerages are doled out to time-serving chancers, place-seeking
chanty wrasslers, party hacks being put out to grass,
and deep-pocketed donors to party funds |
Jimmy Reid |
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I have
heard the story that MacCrimmon would write down a tune
on the wet sand as the tide began to ebb, and would expect
his pupils to be able to play it before the flood tide
once more washed over the sand and washed away the marks |
Seton Gordon |
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I am
a revolutionary writer . . . all my books are explicit
or implicit propaganda. |
Lewis
Grassic Gibbon |
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Scotsmen
take all they can get, and a little more if they can |
Lord
Advocate Maitland |
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By marrying
a Rothschild, being Prime Minister and winning the Derby,
he demonstrated that it was possible to improve one's
financial status and run the empire without neglecting
the study of form |
Claud
Cockburn on Lord Roseberry |
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A half
day off the school is always good, but I don't think it
represents much in the way of support for the monarchy. |
Tommy
Sheridan |
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We often
find out what will do, by finding out what will not do;
and probably he who never made a mistake never made a
discovery |
Samuel
Smiles |
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Given
the kind of signals this nonsense will have sent out to
pacifist loonies everywhere, there should be a clear warning
from the government that attacks on military establishments
and installations will not be tolerated. |
Phil
Gallie |
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An atheist
is a man with no invisible means of support |
John
Buchan |
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He pictured
the dark, slow tribes that came drifting across the low
lands of the northern seas . . . they hunted and fished
and loved and died, God's children in the morn of time
. . . the first voyagers sailing the sounding coasts,
they brought the heathen idols of the great Stone Rings,
the Golden Age was over and past and lust and cruelty
trod the world. |
Lewis
Grassic Gibbon |
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The
printing press is either the greatest blessing or the
greatest curse of modern times; one sometimes forgets
which |
J
M Barrie |
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It seldom
pays to be rude. It never pays to be half rude |
Norman
Douglas |
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So long
as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man
is useless while he has a friend. |
Robert
Louis Stevenson |
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I have
never had to try to get my act across to a non-Englsih
speaking audience, except at the Glasgow Empire |
Arthur
Askey |
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To find
a friend one must close one eye. To keep him - two |
Norman
Douglas |
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My parents
were wonderful, always there with a ready compromise.
My sister wanted a cat for a pet, I wanted a dog. They
bought a cat and taught it to bark |
Chic
Murray |
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Did
not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland
would be the country I should choose to end my days |
Benjamin
Franklin |
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As far
as I'm concerned, Scotland will be reborn when the last
minister is strangled with the last copy of the Sunday
Post |
Tom
Nairn |
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The
story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins
which will boil along there till the floodgates of life
shut in eternal rest |
Robert
Burns |
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Women
do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men,
but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like
gentlemen |
Compton
Mackenzie |
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Chords
that vibrate sweetest pleasure, thrill the deepest notes
of woe |
Robert
Burns |
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Many
a single county in Scotland has produced more men of original
genius than tracts twice as large in the more favoured
climates of Europe |
Norman
Douglas |
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Minds
are like parachutes. They only function when they are
open |
Sir
James Dewar |
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It was
very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry
one another and so make only two people miserable instead
of four |
Samuel
Butler |
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Braveheart
is pure Australian shite |
Billy
Connolly |
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No society
can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far
greater part of the members are poor and miserable |
Adam
Smith |
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Scotland's
separation is part of England's imperial disintegration |
John
Maclean |
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My job,
as I see it, has never been to lay a tit's egg; but to
erupt like a volcano, emitting not only flames, but a
load of rubbish |
Hugh
MacDiarmid |
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The
most accomplished nation in Europe, the nation to which,
if any one country is endowed with a superior partition
of sense, I should be inclined to give the preference
in that particular |
Horace
Walpole |
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This
tartan obsession . prior to Walter Scott the average clan
gathering looked like a pile of tattie bags |
W
Gordon Smith |
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When
the Scots Kirk was at the height of its power, we may
search history in vain for any institution that can compete
with it, except the Spanish Inquisition |
Henry
Thomas Buckle |
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People
say that the Souness revolution was responsible for the
rise in Rangers support but I think it's got more to do
with the Government Care in the Community policies, which
threw these unfortunates on to the streets |
Irvine
Welsh |
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The
truth is that we are at bottom the most sentimental and
emotional people on earth |
John
Buchan |
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It is
not by any means certain that a man's business is the
most important thing he has to do |
Robert
Louis Stevenson |
