Clan MacLean Links - An online database of genealogy relating to the Clan MacLean and all its septs. Includes the surnames MacLean, MacLaine and all viriant spellings and all septs of the clan and their variants.
Clan MacLean History - Genealogy database and archaeological sites as well as tartan and histories.
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 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, One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele MacLean The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst MacLean
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story MacLean We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short MacLean
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West MacLean Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre MacLean
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg 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) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live MacLean Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. MacLean
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous MacLean There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln MacLean
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The MacLean Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) MacLean
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. MacLean I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda 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 MacLean
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël MacLean "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson MacLean
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker MacLean Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman MacLean
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had MacLean Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi MacLean
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous MacLean May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison MacLean
