Clan Donnachaidh Society Website - Official Web Site of the Clan Donnachaidh. Tells the story of the Clan, its Chiefs,and the Clan Lands. Documents the Clan Crest, Arms, and Tartans and features the Donnachaidh Clan Centre, Museum and Shop.
Clan Donnachaidh Society - Contains a clan history, crest and music and is titled after the gaelic version of "Robertson", which is "Donnachaidh".
About the Robertson Clan - Find out about the clan origins and about the ancient family lands where the clan forefathers once walked and lived in the scenery of Perthshire. Also includes the origins of Scottish surnames, photos of Scotland, a Scottish history timeline and poems of Rabbie Burns.
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Robertson
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "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) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Robertson Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Robertson
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Robertson "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Robertson
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) 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.
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-- Bill Moyers Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Robertson Assassins!
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-- Oscar Wilde Robertson
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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-- Lynn Robertson The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
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-- Peter Ustinov "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Robertson
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
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said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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-- Shecky Greene The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Robertson
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Children are a poor man's riches.
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-- Guy Almes To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Robertson
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Robertson The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Robertson
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Robertson Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Robertson
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Robertson Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Robertson
