Clan Oliphant of Scotland - Information on the clan, including history (early, middleages and Jacobite periods,) lands, castles, and symbols. Also information on notable Oliphants of Scotland.
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Oliphant "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Oliphant
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Oliphant "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Oliphant
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Oliphant Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Oliphant
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Oliphant In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost 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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Oliphant
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Oliphant "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) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Oliphant
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw 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 Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Oliphant "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oliphant
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Oliphant "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Oliphant
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oliphant ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Oliphant
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Oliphant The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Oliphant
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Oliphant Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Oliphant
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Oliphant Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Oliphant
