James Hogg Quotes

#1. Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

James Hogg

#2. I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Paul McAuley

#3. I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.

Lawrence Weschler

#4. I anticipate with joy the approaching period when the stigmas of poverty and pride so liberally bestowed on the highlanders by our southern gentry will be as inapplicable to the inhabitants of that country as of any in the island.

James Hogg

#5. Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

James Hogg

#6. The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

James Hogg

#7. Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11)

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

James Hogg

#9. He was going to be a motherfucking Magician.

Lev Grossman

#10. With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.

James Hogg

#11. As soon as I arrived, I went to the head inn, held by Mr. Creighton, a silly, despicable man, but privileged in having an excellent wife.

James Hogg

#12. A true friend is one who will help you get to your destiny.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#13. Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

James Hogg

#14. He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

James Hogg

#15. If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.

James Hogg

#16. The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

James Hogg

#17. He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

James Hogg

#18. A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

James Hogg

#19. Auld John may dee a beggar in a hay barn, or at the back of a dike, but he sall aye be master o' his ain thoughts an' gie them vent or no, as he likes

James Hogg

#20. If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Leonard Ravenhill

#21. The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

James Hogg

#22. Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

James Hogg

#23. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. Will you no come back again?
Better loved you'll never be,
And will you no come back again?

James Hogg

#25. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!

James Hogg

#26. It seems to me that faithfulness has very little to do with who you have sex with." Faithfulness is about honoring your commitments and respecting your friends and lovers, about caring for their well-being as well as your own. If

Dossie Easton

#27. An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

James Hogg

#28. That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

James Hogg

#29. It strikes me, my dear, that religious devotion would be somewhat out of place tonight

James Hogg

#30. Hold, Sir, I say! None of your profanity before me. If I do evil to anyone on such occasions, it is because he will have it so; therefore, the evil is not of my doing.

James Hogg

#31. It's very important, no matter what you may do professionally, to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

Fred Rogers

#32. I never go but where I have some great purpose to serve," returned he, "either in the advancement of my own power and dominion or in thwarting my enemies.

James Hogg

#33. Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain.
Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.

Paulo Coelho

#34. What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

James Hogg

#35. We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Allan Bloom

#36. O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness;
It winna let a poor body
Gang about his biziness!

James Hogg

#37. Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache.
(Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)

James Hogg

#38. It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

James Hogg

#39. No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#40. ... he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.

James Hogg

#41. There are all kinds of ways of being unfaithful, not the worst of them with your body.

Betty Jane Wylie