Portal:Scotland/Selected quotes/63

" ...   We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters      ... "

&mdash; Alexander McCall Smith

" ...    A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless      ... "

&mdash; James VI King of Scots  (on Tobacco)