Farquharson Clan : About your Scottish Name - The origins of the Farquharson 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.
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 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Farquharson Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Farquharson
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Farquharson 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 you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Farquharson
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics 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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Farquharson Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Farquharson
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Farquharson "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Farquharson
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Farquharson He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Farquharson
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Farquharson One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Farquharson
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Farquharson My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Farquharson
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Farquharson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Farquharson
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Marriage is a rest period between romances. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Farquharson A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Farquharson
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Farquharson blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Farquharson
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Farquharson "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Farquharson
