Scot Prov Quotes & Sayings

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity. — James Thurber

Mistakes are always mistakes, Or so I've heard them say ... But if it teaches a lesson, The mistake will go away. — Stephen Cosgrove

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated. — Robert Dallek

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand. — Jan Morris

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place. — Paul Theroux

It is far, far better never to have been beautiful.
If you're gorgeous you're going to get by absolutely fine everyone will always want you in the room and you'll be lavished with attention, which you'll do very little to earn. Whereas, if you look like a sack of offal thats been dropkicked down a lift-shaft into a pond, you're going to spend many of your formative years alone. this may seem miserable - but you'll have space, space that you can constructively use to discover and hone your skills, learn a language, develop an interest in cosmology, practice the oboe, do whatever you fancy, really, so long as it doesn't involve being looked at or snogging anyone. And you'll very likely emerge from your chrysalis aged twenty-five as a highly accomplished young thing ready to take on the world. meanwhile, The Beautiful Ones will have been so busy having boyfriends and brushing their hair that they'll just be ... who they always were. — Miranda Hart

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them. — Katy Perry

Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco. — David Grossman

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. — Gijs De Vries