Emotions and Feelings

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Love is a boy, by poets styled,

Doubtless the pleasure is as great

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle.

All my joys to this are folly,

All my joys to this are folly,

Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie,

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us

Tam tint his reason a’ thegither,

Tam tint his reason a’ thegither,

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,

The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,

Liberty’s in every blow!

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.