Oatcakes Scottish Quotes & Sayings

Harvest is more abundant on untilled land. — Sunday Adelaja

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles. — Samuel Johnson

I like anybody who does any kind of construction. — John Craig

In the lower-brow selection of tabloids that report on the weight of celebrities, one statement that follows women struggling with their weight around more than any other is "She got her body back." Here you'll find near-constant Britney coverage. But barring any transcendent out-of-body experiences, these women were never separated from their bodies. They've occupied them across various weights. This phrase is not about a woman getting back something she lost as much as it as about our approval that she has returned to something we want her to be. What is meant by this phrase is "We got her body back." We got the body we felt entitled to. — Alana Massey

In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one's enemies. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin. — Roger Ebert

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die. — Shirley Hazzard

And then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. — Douglas Adams

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. — Susan B. Anthony

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. — Muqtada Al Sadr

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. — Robert J. Havighurst

I am not a fine chef, but I can certainly get dinner on the table for 14 people. With that many, I try to keep it simple: salmon, mashed potatoes, sauteed spinach, and salad. — Cindy Crawford