Clan MacKinnon - Listing history, tartan, crest and map with links to related sites.
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence MacKinnon "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i MacKinnon
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce MacKinnon If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. MacKinnon
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac MacKinnon 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 "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 don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard MacKinnon
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg MacKinnon A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. MacKinnon
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire MacKinnon Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright MacKinnon
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) 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) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker MacKinnon "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. MacKinnon
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. MacKinnon Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell MacKinnon
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." MacKinnon The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon MacKinnon
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker MacKinnon blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human MacKinnon
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- 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 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards MacKinnon Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 MacKinnon
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. MacKinnon "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson MacKinnon
