Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Transgendered Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Transgendered
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Transgendered "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Transgendered
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Transgendered We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Transgendered
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "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) 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 Transgendered There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Transgendered
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Transgendered I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Transgendered
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Transgendered For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transgendered
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Transgendered You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Transgendered
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Transgendered He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Transgendered
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Transgendered 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Transgendered
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Transgendered "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Transgendered
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Transgendered "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Transgendered
