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Weeks in 2010 edit
- Week 1
| “ | ... Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men. ... | ” |
- — James Boswell responding to Samuel Johnson:
("In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to Horses.")
- Week 2
| “ | ... Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men. ... | ” |
- — James Boswell responding to Samuel Johnson:
("In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to Horses.")
- Week 3
| “ | ... Jimmy Hill is to football what King Herod was to babysitting. ... | ” |
| “ | ... It was a great day in my life when I discovered that I did not know what fear was. ... | ” |
- Week 4
| “ | ... Jimmy Hill is to football what King Herod was to babysitting. ... | ” |
| “ | ... It was a great day in my life when I discovered that I did not know what fear was. ... | ” |
- Week 5
| “ | ... Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether ... | ” |
| “ | ... Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community ... | ” |
- Week 6
| “ | ... Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether ... | ” |
| “ | ... Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community ... | ” |
- Week 7
| “ | ... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair ... | ” |
- Week 8
| “ | ... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair ... | ” |
- Week 9
| “ | ... A ripple of laughter is worth an ocean of tears. To laugh is to be free of worry ... | ” |
| “ | ... It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important ... | ” |
- Week 10
| “ | ... A ripple of laughter is worth an ocean of tears. To laugh is to be free of worry ... | ” |
| “ | ... It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important ... | ” |
- Week 11
| “ | ... Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable ... | ” |
| “ | ... Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie-leekie, high cheek-bones or rowanberry jam ... | ” |
- Week 12
| “ | ... Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable ... | ” |
| “ | ... Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie-leekie, high cheek-bones or rowanberry jam ... | ” |
- Week 13
| “ | ... History is written from then to now but understood back to front ... | ” |
| “ | ... Growing old is great. It’s like getting drunk. Everyone around you gets better-looking ... | ” |
- Week 14
| “ | ... History is written from then to now but understood back to front ... | ” |
| “ | ... Growing old is great. It’s like getting drunk. Everyone around you gets better-looking ... | ” |
- Week 15
| “ | ... It is possible for parents to be corrupted or improved by their children ... | ” |
| “ | ... I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way ... | ” |
- Week 16
| “ | ... It is possible for parents to be corrupted or improved by their children ... | ” |
| “ | ... I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way ... | ” |
- Week 17
| “ | ... One sometimes finds what one is not looking for ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding ... | ” |
- Week 18
| “ | ... One sometimes finds what one is not looking for ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding ... | ” |
- Week 19
| “ | ... We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters ... | ” |
| “ | ... A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless ... | ” |
- — James VI King of Scots (on Tobacco)
- Week 20
| “ | ... We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters ... | ” |
| “ | ... A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless ... | ” |
- — James VI King of Scots (on Tobacco)
- Week 21
| “ | ... Some folks are wise and some are otherwise ... | ” |
| “ | ... It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in restrospect ... | ” |
- Week 22
| “ | ... Some folks are wise and some are otherwise ... | ” |
| “ | ... It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in restrospect ... | ” |
- Week 23
| “ | ... Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations ... | ” |
| “ | ... Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice ... | ” |
- Week 24
| “ | ... Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations ... | ” |
| “ | ... Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice ... | ” |
- Week 25
| “ | ... The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not be found out ... | ” |
| “ | ... For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself ... | ” |
- Week 26
| “ | ... The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not be found out ... | ” |
| “ | ... For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself ... | ” |
- Week 27
| “ | ... I must follow them. I am their leader ... | ” |
| “ | ... None can destroy Scotland, save Scotland's self ... | ” |
- — Lord Belhaven, opposing the union of 1707
- Week 28
| “ | ... I must follow them. I am their leader ... | ” |
| “ | ... None can destroy Scotland, save Scotland's self ... | ” |
- — Lord Belhaven, opposing the union of 1707
- Week 29
| “ | ... Avarice, the spur of industry ... | ” |
| “ | ... No enemy is half so fatal as a friend estranged ... | ” |
- Week 30
| “ | ... Avarice, the spur of industry ... | ” |
| “ | ... No enemy is half so fatal as a friend estranged ... | ” |
- Week 31
| “ | ... Instinct is untaught ability ... | ” |
| “ | ... The great and good do not die even in this world. Enbalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad ... | ” |
- Week 32
| “ | ... Instinct is untaught ability ... | ” |
| “ | ... The great and good do not die even in this world. Enbalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad ... | ” |
- Week 33
| “ | ... Authors and captured criminals are the only people free from routine ... | ” |
| “ | ... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human ... | ” |
- Week 34
| “ | ... Authors and captured criminals are the only people free from routine ... | ” |
| “ | ... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human ... | ” |
- Week 35
| “ | ... All government is a monopoly of violence ... | ” |
| “ | ... In order to enjoy leisure, it is absolutely necessary it should be preceded by occupation ... | ” |
- Week 36
| “ | ... All government is a monopoly of violence ... | ” |
| “ | ... In order to enjoy leisure, it is absolutely necessary it should be preceded by occupation ... | ” |
- Week 37
| “ | ... All women know talent when they share a bed with it ... | ” |
| “ | ... A titled nobility is the most undisputed progeny of feudal barbarism ... | ” |
- Week 38
| “ | ... All women know talent when they share a bed with it ... | ” |
| “ | ... A titled nobility is the most undisputed progeny of feudal barbarism ... | ” |
- Week 39
| “ | ... One can love a country until it hurts ... | ” |
| “ | ... I thought he was a young man of promise, but I see he was a young man of promises ... | ” |
- — A. J. Balfour, on Winston Churchill
- Week 40
| “ | ... One can love a country until it hurts ... | ” |
| “ | ... I thought he was a young man of promise, but I see he was a young man of promises ... | ” |
- — A. J. Balfour, on Winston Churchill
- Week 41
| “ | ... Burns of all poets is the most a Man ... | ” |
| “ | ... No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men ... | ” |
- Week 42
| “ | ... Burns of all poets is the most a Man ... | ” |
| “ | ... No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men ... | ” |
- Week 43
| “ | ... Autobiography is an attempted jail break ... | ” |
| “ | ... A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience ... | ” |
- Week 44
| “ | ... Autobiography is an attempted jail break ... | ” |
| “ | ... A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience ... | ” |
- Week 45
| “ | ... No man is useless while he has a friend ... | ” |
| “ | ... Scottish separation is part of England's imperial disintegration ... | ” |
- Week 46
| “ | ... No man is useless while he has a friend ... | ” |
| “ | ... Scottish separation is part of England's imperial disintegration ... | ” |
- Week 47
| “ | ... To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy ... | ” |
| “ | ... A real leader of men is someone who is afraid to go anywhere by himself ... | ” |
- Week 48
| “ | ... To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy ... | ” |
| “ | ... A real leader of men is someone who is afraid to go anywhere by himself ... | ” |
- Week 49
| “ | ... Facts are stubborn things ... | ” |
| “ | ... You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing ... | ” |
- Week 50
| “ | ... Facts are stubborn things ... | ” |
| “ | ... You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing ... | ” |
- Week 51
| “ | ... Nae man can tether time nor tide ... | ” |
| “ | ... In all ages of the world, priests have been the enemies of liberty ... | ” |
- Week 52
| “ | ... Nae man can tether time nor tide ... | ” |
| “ | ... In all ages of the world, priests have been the enemies of liberty ... | ” |