Saturday, August 31, 2013

Fortune Quote #391

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you
into hot water. -- Franklin P. Jones

Friday, August 30, 2013

Fortune Quote #390

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Fortune Quote #389

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. --
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Fortune Quote #388

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
-- Frank Moore Colby

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Fortune Quote #387

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Monday, August 26, 2013

Fortune Quote #386

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who
distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous
proofs. -- Felix Klein

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Fortune Quote #385

Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake
when you make it again. -- F.P. Jones

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Fortune Quote #384

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
-- Evan Davis

Friday, August 23, 2013

Fortune Quote #383

Television--a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor
well-done. -- Ernie Kovacs

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Fortune Quote #382

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human
existence. -- Erich Fromm

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Fortune Quote #381

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I
need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Fortune Quote #380

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we
didn't. -- Erica Jong

Monday, August 19, 2013

Fortune Quote #379

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each
other. -- Eric Hoffer

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Fortune Quote #378

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in
eternal bondage to himself. -- Eric Hoffer

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Fortune Quote #377

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has
printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. --
Professor Lowd, English, Ohio University

Friday, August 16, 2013

Fortune Quote #376

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. -- Elvis
Costello

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Fortune Quote #375

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you
love someone, you love them with their faults. -- Elizabeth Cameron

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Fortune Quote #374

You must do the things you think you cannot do. -- Eleanor
Roosevelt

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Fortune Quote #373

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus
handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard

Monday, August 12, 2013

Fortune Quote #372

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for
enough good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Fortune Quote #371

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see
right in front of us. -- Edmond Duranty

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Fortune Quote #370

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it
suits him, a coward. -- Edgar Allen Poe

Friday, August 9, 2013

Fortune Quote #369

"Facts are stubborn things." (Attributed to lots of different people,
including Ebenezer Elliott, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan)

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Fortune Quote #368

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it
once. -- E. Joseph Cossman

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Fortune Quote #367

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but
planning is indispensable. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Fortune Quote #366

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be
overcome. -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

Monday, August 5, 2013

Fortune Quote #365

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,
it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -- Dr. Samuel Johnson

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Fortune Quote #364

The law is a pretty bird, and has charming wings. It would be quite a bird
of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill. -- Douglas
Jerrold

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Fortune Quote #363

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from
the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams

Friday, August 2, 2013

Fortune Quote #362

A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way
street. -- Doug Linder

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Fortune Quote #361

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with
great force. -- Dorothy Parker