Fortune Quote

Friday, March 10, 2017

Fortune Quote #1682

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon
my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled
hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! --
Captain Ahab, "Moby Dick"

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Fortune Quote #1681

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more
deadly in the long run. -- Mark Twain

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Fortune Quote #1680

Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves
possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, LotR]

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Fortune Quote #1679

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat
has only nine lives. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Monday, March 6, 2017

Fortune Quote #1678

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to
deceive." -- William Shakespeare

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Fortune Quote #1677

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to
miss it. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Fortune Quote #1676

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use
it like a giant. -- Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", II, 2

Friday, March 3, 2017

Fortune Quote #1675

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark
Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Fortune Quote #1674

"Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none."
-- Shakespeare

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Fortune Quote #1673

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as
if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain