Clan Pollock International - The official American web site of Clan Pollock. You will find information on the clan and all of the recognized names that are from the lands of Pollock in Scotland.
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Anyway, 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,
ign And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Pollock "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Pollock
"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) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Pollock What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Pollock
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 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Pollock I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Pollock
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Pollock Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde 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, Pollock
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Pollock "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Pollock
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B 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 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Pollock Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Pollock
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Pollock I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Pollock
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Pollock There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pollock
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Pollock This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pollock
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Pollock "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Pollock
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Think off-center." (George Carlin) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Pollock There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Pollock
