Thursday, October 31, 2013

Fortune Quote #452

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours,
each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are
gone forever. -- Horace Mann

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Fortune Quote #451

Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you
take into account Hofstadter's Law."

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Fortune Quote #450

Higdon's Law: "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from
bad judgment."

Monday, October 28, 2013

Fortune Quote #449

Repartee is what you wish you'd said. -- Heywood Broun

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Fortune Quote #448

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill
the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Fortune Quote #447

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. --
Henry Van Dyke

Friday, October 25, 2013

Fortune Quote #446

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not
understood. -- Henry Miller

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Fortune Quote #445

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of
one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that
oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the
beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -- Henry Louis Mencken

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Fortune Quote #444

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you
have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit
of love. -- Henry Drummond

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Fortune Quote #443

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. -- Henry David
Thoreau

Monday, October 21, 2013

Fortune Quote #442

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be
crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Fortune Quote #441

Goodness is the only investment which never fails. -- Henry David
Thoreau

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Fortune Quote #440

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new
wearer of clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau

Friday, October 18, 2013

Fortune Quote #439

Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it. -- Henry
David Thoreau

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Fortune Quote #438

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
-- Henri Bergson

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Fortune Quote #437

The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart. -- Helen Keller

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Fortune Quote #436

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller

Monday, October 14, 2013

Fortune Quote #435

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when
you lose your own. -- Harry S Truman

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Fortune Quote #434

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing
rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. -- Hare & Charles

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Fortune Quote #433

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well
be suspected to do everything for Money. -- Halifax

Friday, October 11, 2013

Fortune Quote #432

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on
my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Fortune Quote #431

Do not believe that lust can ever be killed out if gratified or satiated,
for this is an abomination inspired by illusion. It is by feeding vice
that it expands and waxes strong, like to the worm that fattens on the
blossom's heart. -- H. P. Blavatsky

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Fortune Quote #430

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you
get. -- H. Jackson Brown

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Fortune Quote #429

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness,
and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is
the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily. The
evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and 'doing' cannot
be the result of things which 'happen.' -- Gurdjieff

Monday, October 7, 2013

Fortune Quote #428

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. --
Groucho Marx

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Fortune Quote #427

I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it. -- Groucho
Marx

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Fortune Quote #426

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. -- Groucho Marx

Friday, October 4, 2013

Fortune Quote #425

Grabel's Law: "2 is not equal to 3; not even for very large values of 2."

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Fortune Quote #424

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than
looking. -- Goethe

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Fortune Quote #423

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free. -- Goethe

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Fortune Quote #422

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry and see a fine
picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not
obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human
soul. -- Goethe