Sottish Quotes

#1. Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

Matthew Henry

#2. Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

#3. This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, I presume, from the Sottish settlers, but resembling no known Scottish accent. It's simply Kiwi English with added r's.

Joe Bennett

#4. But poverty, with most who whimper forth
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

William Cowper

#5. Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.

Thomas Paine

#6. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

John Dryden

#9. I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.'

Steven Tyler

#10. People, who seek God, find answers to their question

Sunday Adelaja

#11. What, you egg? [He stabs him.]

William Shakespeare

#12. A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.

Jane Grigson

#13. It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Colin Firth

#14. Don't look at what has been achieved, look at what needs to be achieved

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