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Weeks in 2011
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“ | ... History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other ... | ” |
“ | ... To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die ... | ” |
- Week 2
“ | ... History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other ... | ” |
“ | ... To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die ... | ” |
- Week 3
“ | ... If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness ... | ” |
“ | ... America would have been a poor show had it not been for the Scots ... | ” |
- Week 4
“ | ... If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness ... | ” |
“ | ... America would have been a poor show had it not been for the Scots ... | ” |
- Week 5
“ | ... Men are immortal till their work is done ... | ” |
“ | ... You can't worry too much about the future. Life is not a rehearsal ... | ” |
- Week 6
“ | ... Men are immortal till their work is done ... | ” |
“ | ... You can't worry too much about the future. Life is not a rehearsal ... | ” |
- Week 7
“ | ... Every man has a sane spot somewhere ... | ” |
“ | ... You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth ... | ” |
- Week 8
“ | ... Every man has a sane spot somewhere ... | ” |
“ | ... You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth ... | ” |
- Week 9
“ | ... I think for my part one half of the nation is mad – and the other not very sound ... | ” |
“ | ... Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice ... | ” |
- Week 10
“ | ... I think for my part one half of the nation is mad – and the other not very sound ... | ” |
“ | ... Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice ... | ” |
- Week 11
“ | ... I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom ... | ” |
“ | ... Kilt, n. - a costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland ... | ” |
- Week 12
“ | ... I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom ... | ” |
“ | ... Kilt, n. - a costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland ... | ” |
- Week 13
“ | ... The world cannot live at the level of its great men ... | ” |
“ | ... Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone ... | ” |
- Week 14
“ | ... The world cannot live at the level of its great men ... | ” |
“ | ... Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone ... | ” |
- Week 15
“ | ... Biography should be written by an acute enemy ... | ” |
“ | ... We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic ... | ” |
- Week 16
“ | ... Biography should be written by an acute enemy ... | ” |
“ | ... We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic ... | ” |
- Week 17
“ | ... Books are a finer world within the world ... | ” |
“ | ... All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education ... | ” |
- Week 18
“ | ... Books are a finer world within the world ... | ” |
“ | ... All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education ... | ” |
- Week 19
“ | ... The Scots are steadfast - not their clime ... | ” |
“ | ... We do have the greatest fans in the world but I’ve never seen a fan score a goal ... | ” |
- Week 20
“ | ... The Scots are steadfast - not their clime ... | ” |
“ | ... We do have the greatest fans in the world but I’ve never seen a fan score a goal ... | ” |
- Week 21
“ | ... Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions ... | ” |
“ | ... Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary ... | ” |
- Week 22
“ | ... Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions ... | ” |
“ | ... Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary ... | ” |
- Week 23
“ | ... History, a distillation of Rumour ... | ” |
“ | ... It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down ... | ” |
- Week 24
“ | ... History, a distillation of Rumour ... | ” |
“ | ... It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down ... | ” |
- Week 25
“ | ... Biography: One of the new terrors of death ... | ” |
“ | ... It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy ... | ” |
- Week 26
“ | ... Biography: One of the new terrors of death ... | ” |
“ | ... It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy ... | ” |
- Week 27
“ | ... Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life ... | ” |
“ | ... It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding ... | ” |
- Week 28
“ | ... Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life ... | ” |
“ | ... It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding ... | ” |
- Week 29
“ | ... If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong ... | ” |
“ | ... The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it ... | ” |
- Week 30
“ | ... If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong ... | ” |
“ | ... The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it ... | ” |
- Week 31
“ | ... Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly ... | ” |
“ | ... The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it ... | ” |
- Week 32
“ | ... Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly ... | ” |
“ | ... The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it ... | ” |
- Week 33
“ | ... The secret of long life is always be doing something you enjoy ... | ” |
- — Tom Weir
“ | ... War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle ... | ” |
- Week 34
“ | ... The secret of long life is always be doing something you enjoy ... | ” |
- — Tom Weir
“ | ... War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle ... | ” |
- Week 35
“ | ... Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness ... | ” |
“ | ... The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn ... | ” |
- Week 36
“ | ... Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness ... | ” |
“ | ... The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn ... | ” |
- Week 37
“ | ... Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man ... | ” |
“ | ... Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved,
so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you ... |
” |
- Week 38
“ | ... Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man ... | ” |
“ | ... Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved,
so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you ... |
” |
- Week 39
“ | ... It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are ... | ” |
“ | ... Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last;
Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast. ... |
” |
- — Andrew Carnegie (on two aspects of the Scottish character)
- Week 40
“ | ... It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are ... | ” |
“ | ... Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last;
Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast. ... |
” |
- — Andrew Carnegie (on two aspects of the Scottish character)
- Week 41
“ | ... Come along inside. We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place ... | ” |
“ | ... All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer ... | ” |
- Week 42
“ | ... Come along inside. We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place ... | ” |
“ | ... All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer ... | ” |
- Week 43
“ | ... It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics ... | ” |
“ | ... We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once ... | ” |
- Week 44
“ | ... It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics ... | ” |
“ | ... We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once ... | ” |
- Week 45
“ | ... There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy ... | ” |
“ | ... Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better ... | ” |
- Week 46
“ | ... There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy ... | ” |
“ | ... Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better ... | ” |
- Week 47
“ | ... I fear I have nothing original in me excepting original sin ... | ” |
“ | ... Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life ... | ” |
- Week 48
“ | ... I fear I have nothing original in me excepting original sin ... | ” |
“ | ... Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life ... | ” |
- Week 49
“ | ... No man can become rich without himself enriching others ... | ” |
“ | ... The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better ... | ” |
- Week 50
“ | ... No man can become rich without himself enriching others ... | ” |
“ | ... The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better ... | ” |
- Week 51
“ | ... Politically correct is the language of cowardice ... | ” |
“ | ... It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine ... | ” |
- Week 52
“ | ... Politically correct is the language of cowardice ... | ” |
“ | ... It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine ... | ” |