The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety
nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash
out a Word of it. -- Omar Khayyam
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Fortune Quote #1732
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs, Is those things arms, or is they legs? I
marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me us. -- Ogden
Nash
marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me us. -- Ogden
Nash
Friday, April 28, 2017
Fortune Quote #1731
No rock so hard but that a little wave May beat admission in a thousand
years. -- Tennyson
years. -- Tennyson
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Fortune Quote #1730
Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love 'til you give
it away. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
it away. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Fortune Quote #1729
Let us treat men and women well; Treat them as if they were real; Perhaps
they are. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
they are. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Fortune Quote #1728
Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there
again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away!
again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away!
Monday, April 24, 2017
Fortune Quote #1727
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was
and never will be. -- Thomas Jefferson
and never will be. -- Thomas Jefferson
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Fortune Quote #1726
I would like to know What I was fencing in And what I was fencing
out. -- Robert Frost
out. -- Robert Frost
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Fortune Quote #1725
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed,
unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden
Nash
unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden
Nash
Friday, April 21, 2017
Fortune Quote #1724
I really hate this darned machine I wish that they would sell it. It never
does quite what I want But only what I tell it.
does quite what I want But only what I tell it.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Fortune Quote #1723
I have learned To spell hors d'oeuvres Which still grates on Some
people's n'oeuvres. -- Warren Knox
people's n'oeuvres. -- Warren Knox
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Fortune Quote #1722
Don't lose your head To gain a minute You need your head Your brains are
in it. -- Burma Shave
in it. -- Burma Shave
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Fortune Quote #1721
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye
need to know. -- John Keats
need to know. -- John Keats
Monday, April 17, 2017
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Fortune Quote #1719
Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven
for? -- Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"
for? -- Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Fortune Quote #1718
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can
invent. -- William Blake
invent. -- William Blake
Friday, April 14, 2017
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Fortune Quote #1716
This isn't really true. I mean, it's true, but it's not the
Truth. -- Dirk Hundertmark (about the Hausdorff-Young theorem)
Truth. -- Dirk Hundertmark (about the Hausdorff-Young theorem)
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Fortune Quote #1715
Sin cannot be thrown away, like dynamite, to explode itself; its
temptations have to be stilled by the power of your soul within. --
Paramahansa Yogananda
temptations have to be stilled by the power of your soul within. --
Paramahansa Yogananda
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Fortune Quote #1714
Still one thing more, fellow-citizens--a wise and frugal Government, which
shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise
free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall
not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. -- Thomas
Jefferson
shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise
free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall
not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. -- Thomas
Jefferson
Monday, April 10, 2017
Fortune Quote #1713
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of
the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be
reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law
must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas
Jefferson
the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be
reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law
must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas
Jefferson
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Fortune Quote #1712
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. --
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
Fortune Quote #1710
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such
only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both
in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil
Society. -- James Madison
only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both
in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil
Society. -- James Madison
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Fortune Quote #1709
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in
friendship, is conversation. -- Oscar Wilde
friendship, is conversation. -- Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Fortune Quote #1708
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is
not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel
Johnson
not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel
Johnson
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Monday, April 3, 2017
Fortune Quote #1706
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of
whatever a body is not obliged to do. -- Mark Twain
whatever a body is not obliged to do. -- Mark Twain
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Fortune Quote #1705
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is
because we are not the person involved. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead
Wilson's Calendar"
because we are not the person involved. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead
Wilson's Calendar"
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Fortune Quote #1704
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a
debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race.
He brought death into the world. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead
Wilson's Calendar"
debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race.
He brought death into the world. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead
Wilson's Calendar"
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