About the MacKay Clan - Find out about the clan origins and about the land where the MacKay forefathers once walked and lived among the scenery of Sutherland in Scotland; Also includes the origins of Scottish surnames, photos of Scotland, a Scottish history timeline and poems of Rabbie Burns.
The Robert Mackay Clan - Includes clan history and genealogical information about one branch of the MacKay clan in New Jersey and Virginia, USA.
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben MacKay A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) MacKay
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke MacKay "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) MacKay
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) MacKay "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus MacKay
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 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. MacKay He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker MacKay
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "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) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth MacKay Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais MacKay
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau MacKay "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth MacKay
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr MacKay A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke MacKay
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle MacKay Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon MacKay
"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) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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 We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 MacKay "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry MacKay
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry MacKay Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort MacKay
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh MacKay Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler MacKay
