Quotes by Scottish Authors - Page 6

We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.
Thomas Carlyle
A man's a man for a' that!
James Drummond Burns
Man is a tool-using animal.
Thomas Carlyle
I love a lassie a bonnie bonnie lassie She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet as the heather The bonnie bloomin' heather Mary ma Scotch Blue-bell.
Harry Lauder
Oh my luve's like a red red rose That's newly sprung in June Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.
James Drummond Burns
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
John Arbuthnot
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Hugh Blair
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
The essence of love is kindness.
Robert Louis Stevenson
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
Life is but a day at most.
James Drummond Burns
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
O Life! thou art a galling load Along a rough a weary road to wretches such as I.
Robert Burns
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
Alexander Smith
If there is another world he lives in bliss If there is none he made the best of this.
Robert Burns
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
James Drummond Burns
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
Thomas Carlyle
Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?
James Drummond Burns
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Thomas Carlyle
Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Thomas Carlyle
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Alexander Smith
I have been dying for twenty years now I am going to live.
James Drummond Burns
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The wolf was sick he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well a wolf once more was he.
Walter Bower
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
A.J. Cronin
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Sir Walter Scott
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
John Armstrong
Our greatest good and what we least can spare is hope.
John Armstrong
Man an animal that makes bargains.
Adam Smith
Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
Robert Burns
History a distillation of rumor
Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Thomas Carlyle
Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Sir Walter Scott
There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.
Henry Drummond
Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Sir James M. Barrie
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
Henry Drummond
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
William Barclay
My heart's in the Highlands my heart is not here My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
Robert Burns
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
William Barclay
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
Sir James M. Barrie
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.
Hugh Black
What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.
Robert Louis Stevenson