About Your Scottish Name - Buchanan Clan - The origins of the Buchanan 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 Buchanan - Includes pictures of Buchanan Castle and the ancestral burial grounds of the Buchanans along with background on the Buchanan Clan.
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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-- Robert Francis Kennedy You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
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The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
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Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Buchanan Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Buchanan
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Buchanan It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Buchanan
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Buchanan The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Buchanan
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Buchanan "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Buchanan
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Buchanan I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Buchanan
