Dreich Scottish Quotes & Sayings

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church. — Jimmy Buffett

Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities. — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. — Garrison Keillor

Civilizations ... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs. — Harry G. Frankfurt

I was struck, as always, that a heathen poet from long ago should know so much of the human heart, and how little that heart changes, though great cities fall and new dispensations sweep away the old and pagan creeds. — Geraldine Brooks

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer

No god will spare you forgiveness for loving me. — Liam Levi