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"An eye for and eye and the whole world is blind." -Mahatma Gandhi "In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so." -Immanuel Kant "The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold." -John S. Mill "When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." -William James "Hell is -- other people." -Jean-Paul Sartre "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -William James "Despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer . . . the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?" -Sigmund Freud "Here's to woman! What that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands."; -Ambrose Bierce "He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything -- that clearly points to a political career." -George Bernard Shaw "No man is wholly free. He is a slave to wealth, or to fortune, or the laws, or the people restrain him from acting according to his will alone." -Euripides "Man is condemned to be free; because once he is thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." -Jean-Paul Sartre "Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten." -B.F. Skinner "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." -Aldous Huxley "Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess." -Samuel Johnson "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell a hell of Heaven." -John Milton "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo Galilee "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's longer than any hour. That's Relativity." -Albert Einstein "There is more to life than increasing it's speed." -Mahatma Gandhi "Polite dating is generally accepted in society, but there are some people who should refrain from doing it publicly...[such as] people who have just received a clean bill of health on an AIDS antibody test...half the fun of modern dating is contained in the spectacle of two slight acquaintances trying to figure out polite ways to ask each other whether they perform anal sex with hemophiliac bisexual central African drug addicts." -P.J. O'Rourke "The witty man merely says what you would have said if you had thought of it." -Anonymous "Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." -Samuel Clemens "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." -George Bernard Shaw "It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense that to put out on the troubled seas of thought." -John Galbraith "For after the object is removed or the eyes shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it . . . Imagination, therefore, is nothing but decaying sense." -Thomas Hobbes "Women want to be a lot of things traditionally considered masculine: doctors, rock stars, body builders, presidents of the United States. But there are plenty of masculine things women have, so far, shown no desire to be: pipe smokers, first-rate spin casters, wise old drunks, quiet. And there is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner." -P.J. O'Rourke "....behold: this was Oedipus, Greatest of men; he held the key to the deepest mysteries; Was envied by all his fellow-men for his great prosperity; Behold, what a full tide of misfortune swept over his head. Then learn that mortal man must always look to his ending, And none can be called happy until that day when he carries That happiness down to the grave in peace." -Sophocles, Oedipus Rex "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -P.J. O'Rourke ![[Back one]](images/back.gif)
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