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…

"I know King Fu, Karate, and 47 other dangerous words."
— Jo Ramos

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

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

"Don't let your opinion sway your judgement."
— movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn

"I would rather men should ask why no statue has been erected in my honor, than why one has."
— Marcus Cato (2nd century BC)
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
— Mark Twain

"Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality."
— William Ernest Hocking

"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
— Ashleigh Brilliant

"Guidelines for Bureaucrats:
(1) When in charge ponder.
(2) When in trouble delegate.
(3) When in doubt mumble."
— James H. Boren

“Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons.”
— Popular Mechanics, March 1949

A chicken is an egg's way of making more eggs.