No. 0. Quote: For courage mounteth with occasion. -- William Shakespeare, "King John" No. 1. Quote: April 1 This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" No. 2. Quote: Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now). No. 3. Quote: All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. -- Samuel Beckett No. 4. Quote: Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools. [Surrealist jokes just aren't my cup of fur. Ed.] No. 5. Quote: You will lose your present job and have to become a door to door mayonnaise salesman. No. 6. Quote: You will reach the highest possible point in your business or profession. No. 7. Quote: FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #5 A: The Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli. Q: Name two families whose kids won't join the Marines. No. 8. Quote: You will be aided greatly by a person whom you thought to be unimportant. No. 9. Quote: Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. -- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1 Here is a letter, read it at your leisure. -- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice" 5,1 [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to I/O system services.] No. 10. Quote: The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, and Selena fretted sullenly and, buffing her already impeccable nails -- not for the first time since the journey begain -- pondered snidely if this would dissolve into a vignette of minor inconveniences like all the other holidays spent with Basil. -- Winning sentence, 1983 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest. No. 11. 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. 12. Quote: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain No. 13. Quote: You will inherit some money or a small piece of land. No. 14. Quote: Q: Why did the astrophysicist order three hamburgers? A: Because he was hungry. No. 15. Quote: When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas No. 16. Quote: Must I hold a candle to my shames? -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" No. 17. Quote: The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know. -- Winning sentence, 1986 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest. No. 18. Quote: You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep. No. 19. Quote: The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. -- Mark Twain No. 20. Quote: Your business will assume vast proportions. No. 21. Quote: You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to. No. 22. Quote: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain No. 23. Quote: You will have a long and boring life. No. 24. Quote: Good news from afar can bring you a welcome visitor.