To meddle wi the thistle and to pluck </br> The figs frae't is my metier, I think. - Hugh MacDiarmid

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
Extremes meet — it's the only way I ken
To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt
That damns the vast majority o' men.

I amna fou' sae muckle as tired — deid dune. It's gey and hard wark coupin' gless for gless
Wi' Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like,
And I'm no' juist as bauld as aince I wes.