Single Grain Scotch

Famous quotes containing the words single, grain and/or scotch:

    “Ever fresh the broad creation,
    A divine improvisation,
    From the heart of God proceeds,
    A single will, a million deeds.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A peck of grain can make a friend; a bushel of grain can make a foe.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)