About the Mackenzie Clan - Find out about the clan origins and the ancient family lands where the clan forefathers once walked and lived among the scenery of the far North of Scotland. Also includes the origins of Scottish surnames, photos of Scotland, a Scottish history timeline and poems of Rabbie Burns.
Clan Mackenzie Society of Scotland & the UK - Clan Mackenzie Society of Scotland and the UK Web Site, including information about Clan Mackenzie History, Castles, Genealogy, Genealogical Database, Septs and Events such as the Clan Gathering.
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "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) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. MacKenzie Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde MacKenzie
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright MacKenzie Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) MacKenzie
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary 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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell MacKenzie "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch MacKenzie
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky MacKenzie He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" MacKenzie
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx MacKenzie Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli MacKenzie
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) MacKenzie Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live MacKenzie
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe MacKenzie There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein MacKenzie
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves MacKenzie Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 MacKenzie
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one MacKenzie Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov MacKenzie
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) 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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling MacKenzie All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' 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 MacKenzie
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde MacKenzie You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) MacKenzie
