"I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty much as an English songwriter and I'm going to try and do an English album, and I wouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed to do Scarborough Fair and Spencer the Rover and stuff like that."

-- Ralph McTell

#Islands Quotes #Scotland Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.”
“What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.”

Source : "Minister's second chance for stardom". Interview with Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.
“Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1924). “A Last Scrap Book”
“Weâ€™re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.”
“Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.”
“How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.”
“I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.”
“A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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