SCA: Clan MacFarlane - Home of the SCA's Clan MacFarlane. The SCA is an International Medieval Re-Creation Organization of Medieval scholars and enthusiasts from all walks of life.
About the MacFarlane Clan - Direct from Scotland - Find out about the clan origins and the land where the MacFarlane forefathers once walked and lived in the bonnie lands around Loch Lomond in Scotland. Also includes the origins of Scottish surnames, photos of Scotland, a Scottish history timeline and poems of Rabbie Burns.
Clan MacFarlane - Official site of the MacFarlane Society, with history of the clan, genealogy, seps and tartans, and also membership information.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) MacFarlane Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun MacFarlane
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli MacFarlane Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins MacFarlane
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 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) MacFarlane Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson MacFarlane
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 MacFarlane Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board MacFarlane
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill MacFarlane Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde MacFarlane
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz MacFarlane Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) MacFarlane
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) MacFarlane "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton MacFarlane
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton MacFarlane Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans MacFarlane
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr MacFarlane "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud MacFarlane
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal MacFarlane Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi MacFarlane
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger MacFarlane My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II MacFarlane
