Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
James Barrett RestonFrancesca: It's still a bit cold yet.
Michael: Never stopped John and me.
Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.
Tags: humor scots julia-quinn
We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: money humour scotland scots misers slovenians
Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.
And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.
Tags: history united-states international-relations irish television ireland scotland paranoia americans eavesdropping scots wales uk-us-relations britons accents anti-british-sentiment braveheart princess-diana united-kingdom
Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous, still a love of the supernatural lingers among the more mountainous districts of the northern kingdom; for 'the Schoolmaster' finds it no easy task, even when aided by all the light of science, to uproot the prejudices of more than two thousand years. ("The Phantom Regiment")
James GrantTags: scotland superstition supernatural scots scottish scotsman
If aw his hums and haws were hams and haggises, the country wad be weel fed!
Liz LochheadOf all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: scotland scots churchill-quotes
He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch.
("The Wendigo")
Tags: scotland scots scotsman scotsmen
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