When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of
us!" -- Turkish proverb
A daily fortune or quote based on the Unix fortune program. Have it emailed to you daily, or browse this blog.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Fortune Quote #2008
What you don't know won't help you much either. -- D. Bennett
Monday, January 29, 2018
Fortune Quote #2007
What we wish, that we readily believe. -- Demosthenes
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Fortune Quote #2006
What one fool can do, another can. -- Ancient Simian Proverb
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Fortune Quote #2005
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. --
John Lilly
John Lilly
Friday, January 26, 2018
Fortune Quote #2004
Well begun is half done. -- Aristotle
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Fortune Quote #2003
We are what we pretend to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Fortune Quote #2002
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do."
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Fortune Quote #2001
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. --
Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz
Monday, January 22, 2018
Fortune Quote #2000
To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D. -- B. Duggan
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Fortune Quote #1999
To err is human. To blame someone else for your errors is even more human.
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Fortune Quote #1998
To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish. --
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Friday, January 19, 2018
Fortune Quote #1997
Time as he grows old teaches all things. -- Aeschylus
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Fortune Quote #1996
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Benjamin
Franklin
Franklin
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Fortune Quote #1995
Things are more like they are today than they ever were before. --
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Fortune Quote #1994
There's no such thing as an original sin. -- Elvis Costello
Monday, January 15, 2018
Fortune Quote #1993
There's no such thing as a free lunch. -- Milton Friendman
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Fortune Quote #1992
The superfluous is very necessary. -- Voltaire
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Fortune Quote #1991
The reverse side also has a reverse side. -- Japanese proverb
Friday, January 12, 2018
Fortune Quote #1990
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Fortune Quote #1989
"The porcupine with the sharpest quills gets stuck on a tree more often."
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Fortune Quote #1988
The only certainty is that nothing is certain. -- Pliny the Elder
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Fortune Quote #1987
The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant
is forever blessed. -- Old Japanese proverb
is forever blessed. -- Old Japanese proverb
Monday, January 8, 2018
Fortune Quote #1986
The life which is unexamined is not worth living. -- Plato
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Fortune Quote #1985
The descent to Hades is the same from every place. -- Anaxagoras
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Fortune Quote #1984
The course of true anything never does run smooth. -- Samuel Butler
Friday, January 5, 2018
Fortune Quote #1983
Schumacher's Dictum: Small is beautiful.
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Fortune Quote #1982
Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this
world.] -- Thomas α Kempis
world.] -- Thomas α Kempis
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Fortune Quote #1981
Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Fortune Quote #1980
Rotten wood cannot be carved. -- Confucius, "Analects", Book 5,
Ch. 9
Ch. 9
Monday, January 1, 2018
Fortune Quote #1979
Rome was not built in one day. -- John Heywood
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