Gunn Clan : About Your Scottish Name - The origins of the Gunn 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 Gunn Society UK - Information, historical and current for the membership and others with associated interests in the Clan Gunn.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Gunn A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Gunn
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Gunn The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Gunn
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gunn And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Gunn
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Gunn Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Gunn
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Gunn 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 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Gunn
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gunn He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gunn
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Gunn Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Gunn
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Gunn Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Gunn
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Gunn There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Gunn
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Gunn Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Gunn
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Gunn Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Gunn
