Funny Edinburgh Quotes & Sayings

All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse. — James T. Farrell

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. — Dejan Stojanovic

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical. — Shigeru Miyamoto

To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness — Sunday Adelaja

Irene gasped. "Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart?" she hissed. "Have you?"
Stuart closed his eyes.
"No," he said. "Au contraire." It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it.
"Don't au contraire me," said Irene.
But it was too late. He had. — Alexander McCall Smith

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me. — Janis Ian

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity. — Salman Rushdie

Yes. It was awful. What sucks even more is that it happened at 'World Famous San Diego Zoo,' that whore of a tourist attraction that insists on forty-seven billboards on every highway and nonstop advertising loops on radio and television. — Michelle Gable

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to. — Dalai Lama XIV

Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats. — Chetan M. Kumbhar

Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least, to dislike it less. — C.S. Lewis