No. 0. Quote: Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis. No. 1. Quote: You will gain money by a speculation or lottery. No. 2. Quote: Q: Why don't lawyers go to the beach? A: The cats keep trying to bury them. No. 3. Quote: You shall be rewarded for a dastardly deed. No. 4. Quote: In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -- Mark Twain No. 5. Quote: Of course you have a purpose -- to find a purpose. No. 6. Quote: Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't. -- Mark Twain No. 7. Quote: In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. -- Mark Twain No. 8. Quote: Don't get to bragging. No. 9. Quote: Day of inquiry. You will be subpoenaed. No. 10. Quote: Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. -- Mark Twain No. 11. Quote: You are fairminded, just and loving. No. 12. Quote: You are magnetic in your bearing. No. 13. Quote: Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. -- Mark Twain No. 14. Quote: Q: What's yellow, and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice? A: Zorn's Lemon. No. 15. Quote: Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson No. 16. Quote: You work very hard. Don't try to think as well. No. 17. Quote: Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree. No. 18. Quote: Write yourself a threatening letter and pen a defiant reply. No. 19. Quote: You will engage in a profitable business activity. No. 20. Quote: You will inherit millions of dollars. No. 21. Quote: It's a very *__UN*lucky week in which to be took dead. -- Churchy La Femme No. 22. Quote: You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" No. 23. Quote: Blow it out your ear. No. 24. Quote: Q: What's the contour integral around Western Europe? A: Zero, because all the Poles are in Eastern Europe! Addendum: Actually, there ARE some Poles in Western Europe, but they are removable! Q: An English mathematician (I forgot who) was asked by his very religious colleague: Do you believe in one God? A: Yes, up to isomorphism! Q: What is a compact city? A: It's a city that can be guarded by finitely many near-sighted policemen! -- Peter Lax