The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

I couldn't think of a worse place for this to happen, ... It just can't go on. If we have to throw money at it, then we will.

It's grand, and ye canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

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I've sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies,' there's a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

We don't understand the tempo of deep-sea communities.

You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.