Round Two

Dedicated to the Quotable Scots. Your Answer to Each Question is the Name of the Person we are Quoting.

Question 1
"Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in."

Question 2
"Behind every great man is an exhausted woman."

Question 3
"The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation."

Question 4
"I never had the least thought or inclination of turning Poet till I once got heartily in love, and then rhyme and song were, in a manner, the spontaneous language of my head."

Question 5
"I have not yet begun to fight!"

Question 6
"Put all your good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."

Question 7
"Aye, I'm telling ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else."

Question 8
“It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be half rude” and a second quote “To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him – two”

Question 9
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Question 10
"No more tears now; I will think upon revenge."