About Your Scottish Name : Bruce Clan - The origins of the Bruce Clan, with scenic description and map of the ancient family lands in Scotland. Also includes the origins of Scottish surnames, photos of Scotland, a Scottish history timeline and poems of Rabbie Burns.
Clan Bruce - Pictures of the Clan crest, tartan and badge, along with a brief history of the clan.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Bruce Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Bruce
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Bruce The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Bruce
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Bruce A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Bruce
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Bruce The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Bruce
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Bruce Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Bruce
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bruce I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Bruce
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Bruce blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Bruce
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Bruce People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Bruce
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Bruce A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Bruce
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Bruce There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Bruce
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Bruce I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Bruce
