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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


"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
    — Ogden Nash


"The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his way."
    — Josh Billings


I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping. -- Stephen Wright


"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
    — Joan Rivers


"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times."
    — Mark Twain


"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."
    — Flaubert


"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
    — Will Cuppy


"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."
    — Jean-Baptiste Colbert


"Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're not sleepy and getting up when they are."
    — Cindy Adams