Clan MacCormack [Cormack/McCormack/McCormick] - Genealogy, history, photographs and other information related to MacCormacks and related families, esp. those from the Wick, Caithness, Scotland area.
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) MacCormack 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 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland MacCormack
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee MacCormack Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault MacCormack
May you never leave your marriage alive. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s MacCormack When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland 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 The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous MacCormack
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams MacCormack "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason MacCormack
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee MacCormack Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) MacCormack
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( MacCormack Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package MacCormack
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "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) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) MacCormack "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason MacCormack
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 MacCormack Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "'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) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) MacCormack
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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) MacCormack Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger MacCormack
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry MacCormack The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha MacCormack
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche MacCormack "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) MacCormack
