Lamont Clan : About Your Scottish Name - The origins of the Lamont 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.
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Lamont "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Lamont
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Lamont "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Lamont
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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 UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Lamont "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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Lamont
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 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 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Lamont Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Lamont
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Lamont "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Lamont
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Lamont "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Lamont
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Lamont your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lamont
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Lamont The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lamont
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Lamont Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Lamont
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Lamont Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Lamont
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lamont Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Lamont
