James Beattie Quotations

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!

Obviously we're bottom and not doing very well but we showed what we're made of today. Chelsea had a lot of possession, probably 70 per cent but we sucked it up at the back and I thought we did really well today.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Duncan can definitely play a part in the second half of the season. Duncan's had a tremendous career and he's a legend here. We would not want to see him call it a day. We will be trying to persuade him in every way we can, and I'd like to see him stay on.

Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, and sing enamoured of the nut-brown maid.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

By the glare of false science betrayed, that leads to bewilder and dazzles to blind.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

All I can do is keep my head down and I will keep working hard and if I get the call it would be brilliant. I have put in a lot of hard work and I have had loads of support from the lads and from the fans as well.

And lo! In the dark east, expanded high, the rainbow brightens to the setting sun.

The gaffer brought me in to score goals and I have always said that is what I can do. One goal, or two or three could set it off and hopefully we can progress from there and not undo what we did last year.