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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…


"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
    — Franklin P. Adams


"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."
    — Mark Twain


"Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village."
    — Leonard Louis Levinson


"The Yankees, as I told you later, are in a slump."
    — baseball great Dizzy Dean


"Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost."
    — Russell Baker


"Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds."
    — J. Finnegan, USC


"If I had my life to live again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
    — Tallulah Bankhead


"You'll never make it - four-groups are out. Go back to Liverpool."
    — Decca Records executive to the Beatles in 1962


"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
    — Harry S Truman


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