Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Fortune Quote #2037

Any man can work when every stroke of his hand brings down the fruit
rattling from the tree to the ground; but to labor in season and out of
season, under every discouragement, by the power of truth -- that requires
a heroism which is transcendent. -- Henry Ward Beecher

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Fortune Quote #2036

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a
mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than
in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life
so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better
way to die? -- Charles Lindbergh

Monday, February 26, 2018

Fortune Quote #2035

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. --
Charles McCabe

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Fortune Quote #2034

And I suppose the little things are harder to get used to than the big
ones. The big ones you get used to, you make up your mind to them. The
little things come along unexpectedly, when you aren't thinking about them,
aren't braced against them. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, "The
Forbidden Tower"

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Fortune Quote #2033

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be
devoured. -- Konrad Adenauer

Friday, February 23, 2018

Fortune Quote #2032

An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit. --
Henry Ford

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Fortune Quote #2031

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors as he sweeps on to the
grand fallacy. -- Benjamin Stolberg

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Fortune Quote #2030

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately
unrehearsed. -- Sean O'Casey

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Fortune Quote #2029

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to
live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Monday, February 19, 2018

Fortune Quote #2028

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest
would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. -- John
Quincy Adams

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Fortune Quote #2027

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. --
Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Fortune Quote #2026

After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux

Friday, February 16, 2018

Fortune Quote #2025

"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without
getting nervous."

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Fortune Quote #2024

A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an
emperor. -- B. Franklin

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Fortune Quote #2023

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates
it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -- Antoine de
Saint-Exupery

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Fortune Quote #2022

"A real person has two reasons for doing anything... a good reason and the
real reason."

Monday, February 12, 2018

Fortune Quote #2021

A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as a public
indecency. -- Miguel de Cervantes

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Fortune Quote #2020

A person is just about as big as the things that make him angry.

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Fortune Quote #2019

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the
portals of discovery. -- James Joyce, "Ulysses"

Friday, February 9, 2018

Fortune Quote #2018

A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to
you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to
you about yourself. -- Lisa Kirk

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Fortune Quote #2017

A friend is a present you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Fortune Quote #2016

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. --
Herbert Prochnow

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Fortune Quote #2015

A 'full' life is usually full only of other people's demands.

Monday, February 5, 2018

Fortune Quote #2014

A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its
quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant
keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the
very wittiest. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Fortune Quote #2012

Tip: You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a
clipboard.

Friday, February 2, 2018

Fortune Quote #2011

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of
Four"

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Fortune Quote #2010

"When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut."