3610 quotes by scottish authors for you to enjoy

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. David Hume

Nature Man Science Human Nature Neglected Has-Been Only Most Been Hitherto Human

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out. Ewan McGregor

Parenting You Cell Phone Phone Giving Sorry Few Whatever Sense Every Earned Months Kids Out Something No Sense New Disastrous Because New One Cell Just Just Because Ask Need

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald

Life Age Within Fresh Decay Bursts Swelling

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. Gilbert Highet

Teacher Health Doctor Value Believe Must His Subject Interest Believes

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. Gordon Ramsay

Strong Incredibly Characters Kitchens Environments Form Hard

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen. Gordon Ramsay

Today Time You Cooking Personality Strong Pressure Be Strong Before Young Every Every Time Marketing More Physically Kitchen Weighed Delivering Come Terms Greater Chefs Importantly Fit Than Get Social Far Skills Plate Social Skills Ever Need

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. Henry Drummond

Achievement Man World Worth Become Before Ambition Every Vain Caring Folly Only The Only Thing Which Lower Whole Thing

I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else. Irvine Welsh

Work You People Become Sense Else See Someone Give Something Something Else Gym More Through Know Identity Go Loser Up Times Trainer Than Personal Biggest Personal Trainer Your Routine Watch

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. James Thomson

Happiness People Others Idea Makes Condition Form Which Dissatisfied

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it. James Thomson

Easier Generous Offence Than Forgive Tis Ask

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. Nicola Sturgeon

Outcome Determine Votes Boxes Opinion Opinion Polls Ballot Polls Elections

When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education. Nicola Sturgeon

Education Class First Benefit First Class Up Lucky Growing Growing Up

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. Oswald Chambers

Me Would Put Like Learnt Am Cannot Might Things

Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good. Peter Marshall

War God Good Nature Change People Christ Power Human Nature Christianity Changed Our Our Lives Correct Must Spirit Only Wrong Sore Force Make End Uneasy Hearts Situations Human Holy Holy Spirit Now Ever Lives Jesus Jesus Christ

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. Peter Marshall

Work Patience Wait Disciplines Lord Than Often Us Teach Harder

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Good Business Our Spirits Fail Continue Succeed

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy Habit Freed Outward Enables Conditions Domination Being Being Happy Largely

I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes. Saint Patrick

Today God Food You Heart Eyes Impossible Before Nothing Nothing Is Impossible Satisfied Herd Our Everywhere He Road Abundance Sincerely Until Him Because Lord Send Done May Behold Converted Them Plainly Your Help Whole Even Appeared Swine

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles

Mistake Made Never He Discovery Who

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