Fortune Quote #267

POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice. -- Ambrose
Bierce

Fortune Quote #266

HABIT, n. A shackle for the free. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #265

DEFAME, v.t. To lie about another. To tell the truth about
another. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #264

CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided
on. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #263

BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that
you do not entertain. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #262

ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already
sufficiently slippery. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #261

ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to
ourselves. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #260

A professional is someone who can do his best work even when he doesn't
feel like it. -- Alistair Cooke

Fortune Quote #259

It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. --
Alfred Adler

Fortune Quote #258

Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a
prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd The glory, jest,
and riddle of the world! -- Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man"

Fortune Quote #257

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is
but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was
yesterday. -- Alexander Pope

Fortune Quote #256

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the
great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to
control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control
itself. -- Alexander Hamilton

Fortune Quote #255

The world of 'what might be' is bounded only by imagination. The world
of 'what is' has no such limitation. -- Alethea Marti

Fortune Quote #254

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no
sane human being has ever given his assent. -- Aldous Huxley

Fortune Quote #253

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. -- Aldous Huxley

Fortune Quote #252

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a
period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a
purpose, trending in a certain direction. -- Aldous Huxley

Fortune Quote #251

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
thinking. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #250

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has
attained liberation from the self. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #249

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --
Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #248

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely
made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. --
Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #247

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its
comprehensibility. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #246

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. -- Albert
Einstein

Fortune Quote #245

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War
IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #244

God is subtle, but he is not malicious. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #243

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- attributed to Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #242

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are
sixteen. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #241

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. --
Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #240

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain,
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. --
Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #239

A = X + Y + Z, where A = success in life, X = work, Y = play, and Z = keep
your mouth shut. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #238

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. --
Albert Camus