Fortune Quote #2098

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of
rubbish into it. -- William Orton

Fortune Quote #2097

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot
yourself in the posterior. -- A.J. Liebling, "The Press"

Fortune Quote #2096

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. --
Calvin Coolidge

Fortune Quote #2095

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk
about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing
else. -- Carlyle

Fortune Quote #2094

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
-- Edward A. Murphy Jr.

Fortune Quote #2093

If the weather is extremely bad, church attendance will be down. If the
weather is extremely good, church attendance will be down. If the bulletin
covers are in short supply, however, church attendance will exceed all
expectations. -- Reverend Chichester

Fortune Quote #2092

Ideas don't stay in some minds very long because they don't like solitary
confinement.

Fortune Quote #2091

"I've seen, I SAY, I've seen better heads on a mug of beer" --
Senator Claghorn

Fortune Quote #2090

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral
slob. -- William F. Buckley

Fortune Quote #2089

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I
have never made one. -- James Gordon Bennett

Fortune Quote #2088

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind. -- Kahlil Gibran

Fortune Quote #2087

I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

Fortune Quote #2086

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience
most of them are trash. -- Sigmund Freud

Fortune Quote #2085

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable
to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal

Fortune Quote #2084

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern,
any adequate account of that nature with which I am acquainted. Mythology
comes nearest to it of any. -- Henry David Thoreau

Fortune Quote #2083

I didn't get sophisticated -- I just got tired. But maybe that's what
sophisticated is -- being tired. -- Rita Gain

Fortune Quote #2082

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's
fashions. -- Lillian Hellman

Fortune Quote #2081

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones. -- John Cage

Fortune Quote #2080

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can
understand it. -- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands

Fortune Quote #2079

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything
else. -- Winston Churchill

Fortune Quote #2078

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been
sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins

Fortune Quote #2077

Human kind cannot bear very much reality. -- T.S. Eliot, "Four
Quartets: Burnt Norton"

Fortune Quote #2076

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you
in. -- Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man"

Fortune Quote #2075

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a
self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Fortune Quote #2074

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. -- Andrew
Lang

Fortune Quote #2073

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. --
Ring Lardner

Fortune Quote #2072

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly
delightful. -- Sydney Smith

Fortune Quote #2071

Hate the sin and love the sinner. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Fortune Quote #2070

For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they
like. -- Abraham Lincoln

Fortune Quote #2069

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso
doth us a good turn we write it in dust. -- Sir Thomas More