Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish writer John Wilson.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
John Wilson of Elleray FRSE was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.
Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.
I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.
You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold