Kerr Clan - Scottish border clan. Includes historical background information.
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Kerr Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Kerr
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Kerr The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Kerr
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kerr "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Kerr
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Kerr Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Kerr
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Kerr "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Kerr
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Kerr The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Kerr
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Kerr America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Kerr
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Kerr The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth 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 "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Kerr
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Kerr I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Kerr
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kerr The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Kerr
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Kerr "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Kerr
