Old Glasgow Sayings

#1. Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

Ken Dodd

#2. Youth is always an enemy to the old ...

Ellen Glasgow

#3. Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Katherine Heigl

#4. Too weird for jocks, and not weird enough for hipsters, I was neither freak nor geek, and that left me stranded in no-man's-land.

Jenn Bennett

#5. I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. As it happens, most studies have found that unexpected rewards are much less destructive than the rewards people are told about beforehand and are deliberately trying to obtain.

Alfie Kohn

#7. My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

Herschel Walker

#8. Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

Ellen Glasgow

#9. Be to believe, feel to love, and create to inspire.

Debasish Mridha

#10. It feels so good to tell the truth.

Foxy Brown

#11. The old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Ellen Glasgow

#12. The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

T. S. Eliot

#13. As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Though he was only twenty-six, he felt that he had watched the decay and dissolution of a hundred years. Nothing of the past remained untouched. Not the old buildings,

Ellen Glasgow

#15. You're beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet

Simon Armitage

#16. We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them.

Josei Toda

#17. When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour's cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

Margot McCuaig

#18. I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

Ellen Glasgow

#19. Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed.

David Cunliffe

#20. I've always been mentally tough. Believe me, you have to be that way when you've been an Old Firm player living in Glasgow.

Charlie Adam