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Weeks in 2013 edit
- Week 1
“ | ... You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are ... | ” |
“ | ... Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius ... | ” |
- Week 2
“ | ... You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are ... | ” |
“ | ... Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius ... | ” |
- Week 3
“ | ... Life's more amusing than we thought ... | ” |
“ | ... I have taken a firm resolution to conquer or to die and stand my ground as long I have a man remaining with me ... | ” |
- Week 4
“ | ... Life's more amusing than we thought ... | ” |
“ | ... I have taken a firm resolution to conquer or to die and stand my ground as long I have a man remaining with me ... | ” |
- Week 5
“ | ... The truth shouldn't hurt unless it ought to ... | ” |
“ | ... The Creator , if he exists, has a specific preference for beetles ... | ” |
- Week 6
“ | ... The truth shouldn't hurt unless it ought to ... | ” |
“ | ... The Creator , if he exists, has a specific preference for beetles ... | ” |
- Week 7
“ | ... You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste ... | ” |
- — J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw
“ | ... We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else ... | ” |
- Week 8
“ | ... You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste ... | ” |
- — J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw
“ | ... We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else ... | ” |
- Week 9
“ | ... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ... | ” |
“ | ... You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass ... | ” |
- Week 10
“ | ... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ... | ” |
“ | ... You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass ... | ” |
- Week 11
“ | ... All money is a matter of belief ... | ” |
“ | ... To a shower of gold, most things are penetrable ... | ” |
- Week 12
“ | ... All money is a matter of belief ... | ” |
“ | ... To a shower of gold, most things are penetrable ... | ” |
- Week 13
“ | ... By creating we think, by living we learn ... | ” |
“ | ... You only have to spend an afternoon with a child to realise that most of them, without even trying, are poets ... | ” |
- Week 14
“ | ... By creating we think, by living we learn ... | ” |
“ | ... You only have to spend an afternoon with a child to realise that most of them, without even trying, are poets ... | ” |
- Week 15
“ | ... There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent ... | ” |
“ | ... The kilt, being a practical outdoor garment, failed him only once, and that occurred during a short-lived interest in bee-keeping ... | ” |
- Week 16
“ | ... There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent ... | ” |
“ | ... The kilt, being a practical outdoor garment, failed him only once, and that occurred during a short-lived interest in bee-keeping ... | ” |
- Week 17
“ | ... The cure for which there is no disease ... | ” |
- —John Ferguson, on whisky
“ | ... I can make a lord, but only God Almighty can make a gentleman ... | ” |
- Week 18
“ | ... The cure for which there is no disease ... | ” |
- —John Ferguson, on whisky
“ | ... I can make a lord, but only God Almighty can make a gentleman ... | ” |
- Week 19
“ | ... Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes ... | ” |
“ | ... The French drink all the time and kill their livers, the Scots drink in bouts and kill their neighbours ... | ” |
- Week 20
“ | ... Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes ... | ” |
“ | ... The French drink all the time and kill their livers, the Scots drink in bouts and kill their neighbours ... | ” |
- Week 21
“ | ... The Heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions ... | ” |
“ | ... As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Tony Blair as two cheeks of the same arse ... | ” |
- Week 22
“ | ... The Heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions ... | ” |
“ | ... As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Tony Blair as two cheeks of the same arse ... | ” |
- Week 23
“ | ... It's all humbug ... | ” |
“ | ... The essential beginning of all national uprisings is that poets should believe ... | ” |
- Week 24
“ | ... It's all humbug ... | ” |
“ | ... The essential beginning of all national uprisings is that poets should believe ... | ” |
- Week 25
“ | ... The word 'impossible' has no permanent place in a climber's vocablary ... | ” |
“ | ... Anyone who aspires to being made a mummy, need only arrange to be buried in a bog ... | ” |
- Week 26
“ | ... The word 'impossible' has no permanent place in a climber's vocablary ... | ” |
“ | ... Anyone who aspires to being made a mummy, need only arrange to be buried in a bog ... | ” |
- Week 27
“ | ... A good nationalist must first of all be a good internationalist ... | ” |
“ | ... What is called 'Communism' in backward countries is hunger becoming articulate ... | ” |
- Week 28
“ | ... A good nationalist must first of all be a good internationalist ... | ” |
“ | ... What is called 'Communism' in backward countries is hunger becoming articulate ... | ” |
- Week 29
“ | ... Devolution is a motorway to independence with no exits ... | ” |
“ | ... I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound ... | ” |
- Week 30
“ | ... Devolution is a motorway to independence with no exits ... | ” |
“ | ... I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound ... | ” |
- Week 31
“ | ... All government is a monopoly of violence ... | ” |
“ | ... Scottish separation is part of England's imperial disintegration ... | ” |
- Week 32
“ | ... All government is a monopoly of violence ... | ” |
“ | ... Scottish separation is part of England's imperial disintegration ... | ” |
- Week 33
“ | ... The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt not be found out ... | ” |
“ | ... No man can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left nothing to disbelieve ... | ” |
- Week 34
“ | ... The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt not be found out ... | ” |
“ | ... No man can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left nothing to disbelieve ... | ” |
- Week 35
“ | ... Science is of no party ... | ” |
in 'Politics and Political Economy
“ | ... "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics ... | ” |
- Week 36
“ | ... Science is of no party ... | ” |
in 'Politics and Political Economy
“ | ... "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics ... | ” |
- Week 37
“ | ... A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and leave you looking forward to the trip ... | ” |
- — attributed to Alex Salmond
“ | ... when you can express what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it ... | ” |
- Week 38
“ | ... A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and leave you looking forward to the trip ... | ” |
- — attributed to Alex Salmond
“ | ... when you can express what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it ... | ” |
- Week 39
“ | ... A bag of gravel is history to me, and .... will tell wondrous tales .... mind, a bag of gravel is worth a bag of gold ... | ” |
“ | ... I had the chloroform for several days in the house before trying it .... The first night we took it, Dr Duncan, Dr Keith and I all tried it simultaneously, and were all 'under the table' in a minute or two ... | ” |
- Week 40
“ | ... A bag of gravel is history to me, and .... will tell wondrous tales .... mind, a bag of gravel is worth a bag of gold ... | ” |
“ | ... I had the chloroform for several days in the house before trying it .... The first night we took it, Dr Duncan, Dr Keith and I all tried it simultaneously, and were all 'under the table' in a minute or two ... | ” |
- Week 41
“ | ... He could start a party in an empty room, and he often did ... | ” |
on John Smith, Labour Party leader
“ | ... Scottishness isn't some pedigree lineage: it's a mongrel tradition ... | ” |
- — William McIlvanney at an SNP rally, 1992
- Week 42
“ | ... He could start a party in an empty room, and he often did ... | ” |
on John Smith, Labour Party leader
“ | ... Scottishness isn't some pedigree lineage: it's a mongrel tradition ... | ” |
- — William McIlvanney at an SNP rally, 1992
- Week 43
“ | ... Football management these days is like a nuclear war. No winners, only survivors ... | ” |
“ | ... As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man I think ... | ” |
- Week 44
“ | ... Football management these days is like a nuclear war. No winners, only survivors ... | ” |
“ | ... As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man I think ... | ” |
- Week 45
“ | ... It is harder to take words back than it is to get a refund ... | ” |
“ | ... There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom ... | ” |
- Week 46
“ | ... It is harder to take words back than it is to get a refund ... | ” |
“ | ... There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom ... | ” |
- Week 47
“ | ... Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else ... | ” |
“ | ... There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words ... | ” |
- Week 48
“ | ... Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else ... | ” |
“ | ... There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words ... | ” |
- Week 49
“ | ... Cynicism, together with unrealistic expectation, are the two great bugbears of politics ... | ” |
“ | ... There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty ... | ” |
- Week 50
“ | ... Cynicism, together with unrealistic expectation, are the two great bugbears of politics ... | ” |
“ | ... There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty ... | ” |
- Week 51
“ | ... He who loses his language loses his world ... | ” |
“ | ... Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience ... | ” |
- Week 52
“ | ... He who loses his language loses his world ... | ” |
“ | ... Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience ... | ” |