Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Fortune Quote #2009

When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of
us!" -- Turkish proverb

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

Friday, January 26, 2018

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

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

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

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Fortune Quote #1995

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before. --
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

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

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Fortune Quote #1982

Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this
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

Monday, January 1, 2018

Fortune Quote #1979

Rome was not built in one day. -- John Heywood