John Cameron Ward - List of Macgregor connected names, listing the decendents of Peter Mcgregor from Aberfoyle.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan MacGregor If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) MacGregor
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi MacGregor We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex MacGregor
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson MacGregor Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte MacGregor
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard MacGregor "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "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) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours MacGregor
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle MacGregor Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch MacGregor
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 MacGregor Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart MacGregor
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) MacGregor Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain MacGregor
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) MacGregor "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, MacGregor
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman MacGregor Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) MacGregor
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) MacGregor Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. MacGregor
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) MacGregor Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol MacGregor
