Clan Livingstone - Official site of the Scottish Highland Clan Livingstone. Includes History, folklore and genealogy resources.
Livingston of Scotland - Robert Livingston describes the origins and history of the MacLea and MacOnlea Highlanders and the DNA project for Livingstone and MacLea males, and gives links to other Livingstone-related sites.
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Livingstone "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Livingstone
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "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) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Livingstone Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Livingstone
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Livingstone "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) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Livingstone
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the What's new? Most of my wife. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Livingstone Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Livingstone
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Livingstone Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Livingstone
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Livingstone "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Livingstone
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Livingstone "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Livingstone
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Livingstone 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 It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Livingstone
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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Livingstone Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Livingstone
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Livingstone I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Livingstone
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Livingstone Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Livingstone
