Fortune Quote #299

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin,
1759

Fortune Quote #298

The trouble with doing nothing is that you don't know when you're
finished. -- Benjamin Franklin

Fortune Quote #297

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. --
Benjamin Disraeli

Fortune Quote #296

Batman Costume warning label: "Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly."

Fortune Quote #295

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it
places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the
dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than
the empire. -- Balzac

Fortune Quote #294

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his
friends. -- Baltasar Gracian

Fortune Quote #293

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth. --
Bacon

Fortune Quote #292

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not.
-- Bacon

Fortune Quote #291

It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
-- Augustus de Morgan

Fortune Quote #290

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit
the target. -- Ashleigh Brilliant

Fortune Quote #289

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. --
Ashleigh Brilliant

Fortune Quote #288

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I
disapprove. -- Ashleigh Brilliant

Fortune Quote #287

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken
down. -- Ashleigh Brilliant

Fortune Quote #286

A family budget is a process of checks and balances; the checks wipe out
the balances. -- Arthur Langer

Fortune Quote #285

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems
afterwards. -- Arthur Koestler

Fortune Quote #284

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible
he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is
very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Fortune Quote #283

Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic. First Corollary: Any technology
distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Fortune Quote #282

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Fortune Quote #281

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a
life." -- Arthur Ashe

Fortune Quote #280

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -- Art Hoppe

Fortune Quote #279

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is
possible and improbable. -- Aristotle

Fortune Quote #278

Context? I laugh in the face of context! Ha ha-ha-ha ha-ha! --
Archibald Mumbull

Fortune Quote #277

Trust in Allah but tie your camel. -- Arabian Proverb

Fortune Quote #276

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but
in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de
Saint-Exupery

Fortune Quote #275

Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls
and contracts bad hearts. -- Antoine de Rivaroli

Fortune Quote #274

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad
training. -- Anna Freud

Fortune Quote #273

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any
lawn. -- Andrew V. Mason

Fortune Quote #272

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields,
streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither
cities nor universities enjoy. -- Amos B. Alcott

Fortune Quote #271

The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #270

RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously
known. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #269

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The
words erroneously repeated. -- Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Quote #268

PRAYER, n. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a
single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -- Ambrose Bierce