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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…


"The efficiency of our criminal jury system is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."
    — Mark Twain


"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
    — Jean de La Bruyre


"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."
    — Jean Kerr


Thought for the day:
      “Smile”, they said, “it could be worse!” So I did, and it was.


"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."
    — Jean Kerr


"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
    — Mark Twain


"The Internet...in the right hands it is a wondrous tool, and in the wrong hands it is an even better one."
    — Cecil Adams


"If you become a star, you don't change, everyone else does."
    — Kirk Douglas


"Twice I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
    — Charles Babbage


"Immediately, every man in the place, including women and children, ran out to meet them."
    — Sir Boyle Roche, 18th Century