Scotchman Quotes

#1. Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Samuel Johnson

#2. I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

David Brainerd

#3. In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.

Francis Lockier

#4. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

Samuel Johnson

#5. The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!

Samuel Johnson

#6. An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.

Thomas Hardy

#8. It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too.

Terry Pratchett

#10. If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

August Bebel

#11. Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

Andy Warhol

#12. I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

Matt Shea

#13. A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Vivek Wadhwa

#14. Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic.

Will Friedle

#16. Bunter!"
"Yes, my lord."
"Her Grace tells me that a respectable Battersea architect has discovered a dead man in his bath."
"Indeed, my lord? That's very gratifying."
"Very, Bunter. Your choice of words is unerring. I wish Eton and Balliol had done as much for me ...

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. A different toothbrush waits in every time zone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more

Tony Robbins

#19. I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else.

Ani DiFranco

#20. He had the kind of face you wanted to kiss - lips, forehead, cheeks, eyelids, everywhere except his chin. That you wanted to bite.

Shannon Hale

#21. Maybe I believed in destiny because I wanted to believe.

Claudia Gray

#22. Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

Derek Landy