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I didn’t know what else to call the items on this page. Quotable Quotes? Noteable Notes? Something else?

So I decided to just call ’em “Fortune Cookies,” and be done with it. Anyway, whatever they’re called, here are ten of ’em, randomly chosen just for you…


"A closed mouth gathers no flies."
    — French Proverb
"A closed mouth gathers no feet."
    — American Proverb


"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth."
    — Chico Marx


"If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."
    — Jacques Cousteau


Some folks are born fools, but the majority of us become so through practice.


"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
    — Abraham Lincoln


"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise."
    — Chauncey Depew


"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies... and keeps it for himself."
    — Henry Broughman


"Every time a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said."
    — Will Rogers


"You have to be a real stud hombre cybermuffin to handle 'Windows'"
    — Dave Barry


"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
    — Will Rogers