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Post by andi on Jul 9, 2005 7:44:27 GMT 10
From the lone sheiling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas- Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the hebridies. -Anon-
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Post by dreamy on Jul 9, 2005 20:33:44 GMT 10
"We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else."
Poet and novelist George MacDonald from Huntly (1824-1905)
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Post by andi on Jul 10, 2005 18:32:30 GMT 10
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare
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Post by LLady on Jul 11, 2005 7:51:34 GMT 10
"We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else." Poet and novelist George MacDonald from Huntly (1824-1905) So true!
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Post by LLady on Jul 11, 2005 7:52:01 GMT 10
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare Love it!
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Post by krystal on Jul 11, 2005 12:09:42 GMT 10
"He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has something to hide"
Writer and historian, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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Post by krystal on Jul 11, 2005 12:12:37 GMT 10
"Now I don't know if you remember the first time you ever tasted whisky and the tremendous shock to the nervous system that is. In Scotland this usually happens around the age of four - not because your parents give it to you but because there are these parties at New Year...."
Billy Connolly in "Gullible's Travels"
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Post by krystal on Jul 11, 2005 12:13:52 GMT 10
"From the greed of the Campbells From the ire of the Drummonds From the pride of the Grahams And from the wind of the Murrays Gude Lord preserve us."
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Post by krystal on Jul 11, 2005 12:15:00 GMT 10
The truth of the matter is that we Scots have always been more divided amongst ourselves than pitted against the English. Scottish history before the Union of the Parliaments is a gloomy, violent tale of murders, feuds and tribal revenge. Only after the Act of Union did Highlanders and Lowlanders, Picts and Celts, begin to recognise one another as fellow citizens
Tam Dalyell, Labour politician, MP for West Lothian (1962-83) and for Linlithgow (1983 to date)
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Post by krystal on Jul 11, 2005 12:16:51 GMT 10
For we have three great avantages;
The first is, we have the richt, And for the richt ilk man should ficht, The tother is, they are comin here... To seek us in our awn land... The third is that we for our livis And for our childer and our wifis And for the fredome of our land Are strenyeit in battle for to stand William Barbour, in his epic poem "The Bruce"
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Post by krystal on Jul 11, 2005 12:18:10 GMT 10
"Blythe to meet, Wae to part, Blythe to meet aince mair"
This is known as the Bon-Accord toast - "Happy to meet, sorrowful to part, happy to meet once again." "Bon-Accord" was the password used by the citizens of Aberdeen in 1308 when they rose up, killed the English garrison and captured the town for Robert the Bruce. Bon-Accord is now the motto of the City of Aberdeen.
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Post by krystal on Jul 11, 2005 12:21:02 GMT 10
"Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat - And sae the Lord be thankit."
This "Selkirk Grace" by Robert Burns
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