Fortune Quote #1764

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are
content with your failure. -- Abraham Lincoln

Fortune Quote #1763

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Fortune Quote #1762

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the
bullet. -- Abraham Lincoln

Fortune Quote #1761

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy. -- Thich Nhat Hanh

Fortune Quote #1760

When I was born I was so surprised that I couldn't talk for a year and a
half. -- Gracie Allen

Fortune Quote #1759

"May you live in interesting times." -- An old Chinese (or maybe
Irish) curse

Fortune Quote #1758

I see that Parliament's first act after the end of the war in Europe has
been to rescind the Bill making it a punishable offence to spread gloom and
despondency. So great was our danger in certain years that we were
forbidden to look miserable. Now we can be as unhappy as we please.
Freedom is returning. -- Vere Hodgson

Fortune Quote #1757

"There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot
do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."

Fortune Quote #1756

To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and
happy life. -- J.E. Buchrose

Fortune Quote #1755

Everything's funnier when British people say it. Just look at British
comedy... none of that would be remotely funny if Americans did it. It's
all about the accent and the attitude. -- Deborah Eason

Fortune Quote #1754

The Three (Four) Laws of (Mathcamp) Humor: (1) Everything is funny out of
context, (2) Everything is funnier the more you say it, (3) Everything is
funniest after midnight, and (4) It's always after midnight.

Fortune Quote #1753

Yvonne's Law: "Something which is done is always easier than something
which is not done."

Fortune Quote #1752

Take Heart! Although we have the power to destory what the will of love
created, need we ask which will prevail: the power of our kind or the will
of [the] Divine? -- "Ambassador" (written on the wall of a restroom
in Maine)

Fortune Quote #1751

We are not simply an arrangement of beautiful elements, we are [a]
beautiful arrangement of simple elements. -- "Ambassador" (written
on the wall of a restroom in Maine)

Fortune Quote #1750

Live as if conflict is not inevitable. -- "Ambassador" (written on
the wall of a restroom in Maine)

Fortune Quote #1749

There will be no special day in which the Creator will "come." God is
already present within and without. -- "Ambassador" (written on the
wall of a restroom in Maine)

Fortune Quote #1748

Love is our only connection with the Creator. -- "Ambassador"
(written on the wall of a restroom in Maine)

Fortune Quote #1747

It is not the power of love that makes it desirable--it is our desire to
love that makes us powerful. -- "The Centurion" (written on the
wall of a restroom in Maine)

Fortune Quote #1746

The flute is not an instrument of good moral character, it is too
exciting. -- Aristotle

Fortune Quote #1745

An old error is always more popular than a new truth. -- German
Proverb

Fortune Quote #1744

When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. -- Russian Proverb

Fortune Quote #1743

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do
they accept what first comes to hand. -- Thucydides

Fortune Quote #1742

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions
about facts, which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by
discussion. -- Sir Norman Angell

Fortune Quote #1741

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal
hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? -- William Blake

Fortune Quote #1740

When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword. When you meet a man
who is not a poet, do not show him your poem. -- Rinzai, ninth
century Zen master

Fortune Quote #1739

To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be!
-- Emily Dickinson (on hacking? or doing problem sets?)

Fortune Quote #1738

This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, This is
the way the world ends, Not with a bang but with a whimper. -- T.S.
Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

Fortune Quote #1737

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear,
Unhappiness remembering happiness. -- Euripides

Fortune Quote #1736

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I
think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. --
Ogden Nash

Fortune Quote #1735

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella, But chiefly
on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella. -- Lord
Bowen

Fortune Quote #1734

The one L lama, he's a priest The two L llama, he's a beast And I will bet
my silk pyjama There isn't any three L lllama. -- Ogden Nash, to
which a fire chief replied that occasionally his department
responded to something like a "three L lllama."