“To step aside is human.”

There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.

God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

Life is but a day at most.

The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.

When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.

Now’s the day and now’s the hour.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Some people never try to move forward because they are afraid of falling behind.

We are all just infinities, bounded by our bodies, trying to find forever in a numbered days.

The amazing thing about us as humans is we’re capable of loving more than one person in our lifetime.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

A human being is a deciding being.

Everyone knows your worth, they just hope you don’t.

The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.