| Quotes |
Topic |
| Scotland | It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue! |
| Scotland | Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's,- If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it, A chield's amang you takin notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. |
| Seasons | When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. |
| Self Control | Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. |
| Sensibility | Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo. |
| Sin | I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing, But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! |
| Society | Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! |
| Spring | Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea. |
| Summer | Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. |
| Teaching | What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools, If honest nature made you fools. |
| Temptation | What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. |
| Time | Some wee short hour ayont the twal. |
| Time | Nae man can tether time or tide. |
| Toasts | Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. |
| Uncertainty | There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. |
| Vanity | Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. |
| Victory | Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. |
| Visions | And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. |
| Wine and Spirits | John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo, 'Twill heighten all his joy. |
| Wives | Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart. |
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