Fortune Cookies

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 fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
— Winston Churchill

"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
— Will Rogers

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair."
— George Burns

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---"
— last words of Union army commander John Sedwick as he addressed his troops during a (US) Civil War battle

"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
— George Bernard Shaw

"One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow."
— Vincent T. Goss

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
— David Friedman

"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it."
— Alex Schure

"Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it."
— Margaret Case Harriman

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
— Jean de La Bruyre