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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…


It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.


Sign seen in a Japanese hotel:
    “You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.”


The first meeting of the Apathy Society has been postponed due to lack of interest.


"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again."
    — Francis Rodman


It’s great to be smart ’cause then you know stuff.


"That was Benes' fifth strikeout of the day. He came in with 94, so now he has 104 strikeouts for the year."
    — sportscaster Ralph Kiner


"More than half (55 percent) of women undergraduates are female."
    — About Women on Campus, newsletter published by the National
      Association for Women in Education


"Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
    — Al Capp


"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
    — Fred Allen


"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
    — Ronald Reagan