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About the Ross Clan - Direct from Scotland - Find out about the clan origins and the ancient family lands where the clan forefathers once walked and lived in the rugged beauty of Ross in the far North of Scotland. Also includes the origins of Scottish surnames, photos of Scotland, a Scottish history timeline and poems of Rabbie Burns.
Clan Ross Associations Around the World - Contains links to Clan Ross Associations on each continent.
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(Heraclitus) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Ross At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Ross Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Ross blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Ross "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Ross Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Man and wife make one fool. Ross "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen "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 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Ross Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise Ross "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Ross When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Ross
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