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Weeks in 2009 edit
- Week 1
| “ | ... Have all our revolutions, all our changes of creed, all the bloodshed and the burning, made men happier? ... | ” |
| “ | ... No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world giving and receiving offence. ... | ” |
- Week 2
| “ | ... Have all our revolutions, all our changes of creed, all the bloodshed and the burning, made men happier? ... | ” |
| “ | ... No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world giving and receiving offence. ... | ” |
- Week 3
| “ | ... A man with God is always in the majority. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ... | ” |
- Week 4
| “ | ... A man with God is always in the majority. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ... | ” |
- Week 5
| “ | ... There is only one word for aid that is without strings, and that word is blackmail. ... | ” |
| “ | ... It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ... | ” |
- Week 6
| “ | ... There is only one word for aid that is without strings, and that word is blackmail. ... | ” |
| “ | ... It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ... | ” |
- Week 7
| “ | ... In my end is my beginning ... | ” |
| “ | ... The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ... | ” |
- Week 8
| “ | ... In my end is my beginning ... | ” |
| “ | ... The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ... | ” |
- Week 9
| “ | ... Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ... | ” |
- Week 10
| “ | ... Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ... | ” |
- Week 11
| “ | ... My wife says I'm Scotch by absorption. ... | ” |
| “ | ... A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. ... | ” |
- Week 12
| “ | ... My wife says I'm Scotch by absorption. ... | ” |
| “ | ... A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. ... | ” |
- Week 13
| “ | ... Parents learn a lot about coping with life from their children. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding. ... | ” |
- Week 14
| “ | ... Parents learn a lot about coping with life from their children. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding. ... | ” |
- Week 15
| “ | ... Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. ... | ” |
- Week 16
| “ | ... Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. ... | ” |
- Week 17
| “ | ... I don't know where I'll be in five years and I like the way that feels. ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching. ... | ” |
- Week 18
| “ | ... I don't know where I'll be in five years and I like the way that feels. ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching. ... | ” |
- Week 19
| “ | ... I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. ... | ” |
| “ | ... It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. ... | ” |
- Week 20
| “ | ... I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. ... | ” |
| “ | ... It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. ... | ” |
- Week 21
| “ | ... All I've got against golf is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse. ... | ” |
| “ | ... I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ... | ” |
- Week 22
| “ | ... All I've got against golf is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse. ... | ” |
| “ | ... I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ... | ” |
- Week 23
| “ | ... He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. ... | ” |
- — Margot Asquith speaking of F. E. Smith
| “ | ... When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ... | ” |
- Week 24
| “ | ... He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. ... | ” |
- — Margot Asquith speaking of F. E. Smith
| “ | ... When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ... | ” |
- Week 25
| “ | ... Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it. ... | ” |
| “ | ... No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. ... | ” |
- Week 26
| “ | ... Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it. ... | ” |
| “ | ... No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. ... | ” |
- Week 27
| “ | ... Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. ... | ” |
- Week 28
| “ | ... Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. ... | ” |
- Week 29
| “ | ... Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ... | ” |
- Week 30
| “ | ... Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ... | ” |
- Week 31
| “ | ... Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ... | ” |
| “ | ... To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ... | ” |
- Week 32
| “ | ... Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ... | ” |
| “ | ... To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ... | ” |
- Week 33
| “ | ... An opinion, right or wrong can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. ... | ” |
- Week 34
| “ | ... An opinion, right or wrong can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. ... | ” |
- Week 35
| “ | ... A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. ... | ” |
- Week 36
| “ | ... A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. ... | ” |
- Week 37
| “ | ... The worst of being a doctor is that one's mistakes matter so much. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The ideal board of directors should be made up of three men - two dead and the other dying. ... | ” |
- Week 38
| “ | ... The worst of being a doctor is that one's mistakes matter so much. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The ideal board of directors should be made up of three men - two dead and the other dying. ... | ” |
- Week 39
| “ | ... I have forgot a great deal more than most other men know. ... | ” |
| “ | ... By means of patience, common sense and time, impossibility becomes possibility. ... | ” |
- Week 40
| “ | ... I have forgot a great deal more than most other men know. ... | ” |
| “ | ... By means of patience, common sense and time, impossibility becomes possibility. ... | ” |
- Week 41
| “ | ... Happiness dies, love fails, but art is forever. ... | ” |
| “ | ... I tell you truly, liberty is the best of things; never live under the halter of slavery. ... | ” |
- Week 42
| “ | ... Happiness dies, love fails, but art is forever. ... | ” |
| “ | ... I tell you truly, liberty is the best of things; never live under the halter of slavery. ... | ” |
- Week 43
| “ | ... A scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath and everything else he can lay his hands on. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ... | ” |
- Week 44
| “ | ... A scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath and everything else he can lay his hands on. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ... | ” |
- Week 45
| “ | ... I think Calvinism has done more damage to Scotland than drugs ever did. ... | ” |
| “ | ... A sense of proportion is anathema to the Glasgow drinker. When he goes at the bevvy it is a fight to the death. ... | ” |
- Week 46
| “ | ... I think Calvinism has done more damage to Scotland than drugs ever did. ... | ” |
| “ | ... A sense of proportion is anathema to the Glasgow drinker. When he goes at the bevvy it is a fight to the death. ... | ” |
- Week 47
| “ | ... Doctors, like minicab drivers, are the other idiots to whom we trust our lives. ... | ” |
| “ | ... When shall I see Scotland again? Never shall I forget the happy days I passed there amidst odious smells, barbarous sounds, bad suppers, excellent hearts and the most enlightened and cultivated understandings. ... | ” |
- Week 48
| “ | ... Doctors, like minicab drivers, are the other idiots to whom we trust our lives. ... | ” |
| “ | ... When shall I see Scotland again? Never shall I forget the happy days I passed there amidst odious smells, barbarous sounds, bad suppers, excellent hearts and the most enlightened and cultivated understandings. ... | ” |
- Week 49
| “ | ... Earnest youth lays the best foundations for a frivolous old age. ... | ” |
| “ | ... When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. ... | ” |
- Week 50
| “ | ... Earnest youth lays the best foundations for a frivolous old age. ... | ” |
| “ | ... When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. ... | ” |
- Week 51
| “ | ... A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ... | ” |
- Week 52
| “ | ... A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ... | ” |