"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Transgendered 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 whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Transgendered
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transgendered "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Transgendered
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Transgendered It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Transgendered
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 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Transgendered I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Transgendered
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Transgendered We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Transgendered
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Transgendered My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Transgendered
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Transgendered If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Transgendered
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 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese 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 Transgendered Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Transgendered
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Transgendered If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Transgendered
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Transgendered It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Transgendered
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley 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 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Transgendered In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Transgendered
