About Your Scottish Name - Cameron Clan - The origins of the Cameron 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.
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Cameron Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Cameron
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Cameron "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Cameron
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Cameron The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cameron
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Cameron A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Cameron
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Cameron "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Cameron
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Cameron Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Cameron
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Cameron Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Cameron
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Cameron As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Cameron
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Cameron 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 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Cameron
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Cameron Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Cameron
May you never leave your marriage alive. blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Cameron Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Cameron
