No. 0. Quote: Q: What do they call the alphabet in Arkansas? A: The impossible dream. No. 1. Quote: They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. -- Mark Twain No. 2. Quote: Lord, what fools these mortals be! -- William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer-Night's Dream" No. 3. Quote: Tempt not a desperate man. -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" No. 4. Quote: Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"] No. 5. Quote: Avoid reality at all costs. No. 6. Quote: For a light heart lives long. -- Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" No. 7. Quote: Q: How much does it cost to ride the Unibus? A: 2 bits. No. 8. Quote: This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" No. 9. Quote: A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered. -- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901. No. 10. Quote: Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience. No. 11. Quote: Conscience doth make cowards of us all. -- Shakespeare No. 12. Quote: Stop! There was first a game of blindman's buff. Of course there was. And I no more believe Topper was really blind than I believe he had eyes in his boots. My opinion is, that it was a done thing between him and Scrooge's nephew; and that the Ghost of Christmas Present knew it. The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of human nature. No. 13. Quote: Beware of a tall black man with one blond shoe. No. 14. Quote: You will forget that you ever knew me. No. 15. Quote: There will be big changes for you but you will be happy. No. 16. Quote: "... all the modern inconveniences ..." -- Mark Twain No. 17. Quote: Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day. No. 18. Quote: You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message. No. 19. Quote: FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #21 A: Dr. Livingston I. Presume. Q: What's Dr. Presume's full name? No. 20. Quote: You like to form new friendships and make new acquaintances. No. 21. Quote: Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. -- Mark Twain No. 22. Quote: So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots. -- Samuel Foote No. 23. Quote: He hath eaten me out of house and home. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" No. 24. 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.