Clan Keith Society, Canada - Official pages which promote the history and community of the Family Keith. Gives membership information and contact details, also contains a photograph album, chat facility and related links.
Clan Keith Society of Australia & New Zealand - Official pages which promote the history and kinship of the ancient and noble Scottish Clan Keith. Giving information about membership, calendar of events, chat forum, also photographs and contact details.
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "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 Keith Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Keith
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Keith Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Keith
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Keith If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Keith
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Keith Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Keith
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Keith A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Keith
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Keith I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Keith
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) 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 Keith I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Keith
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Keith Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Keith
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 innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Keith Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Keith
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) 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 a Keith "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keith
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Keith He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Keith
