McNabb - Information on the McNabb Clan, including many variant spellings of the name, history, arms, tartan.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford MacNab And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead MacNab
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks MacNab The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" MacNab
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) MacNab "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha MacNab
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford MacNab My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney 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 MacNab
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan MacNab I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) MacNab
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) MacNab You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed MacNab
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln MacNab In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein MacNab
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland MacNab "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) MacNab
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) MacNab In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor MacNab
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop MacNab "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short MacNab
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides MacNab Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi MacNab
