No. 0. Quote: For courage mounteth with occasion. -- William Shakespeare, "King John" No. 1. Quote: Q: Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? A: You do all of the work and the fat guy in the suit gets all the credit. No. 2. Quote: In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch. -- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian novel. No. 3. Quote: In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch. -- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian novel. No. 4. Quote: You will step on the night soil of many countries. No. 5. Quote: Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. No. 6. Quote: You will be traveling and coming into a fortune. No. 7. Quote: Q: How many Bell Labs Vice Presidents does it take to change a light bulb? A: That's proprietary information. Answer available from AT&T on payment of license fee (binary only). No. 8. Quote: A man was reading The Canterbury Tales one Saturday morning, when his wife asked "What have you got there?" Replied he, "Just my cup and Chaucer." No. 9. Quote: There will be big changes for you but you will be happy. No. 10. Quote: Save energy: be apathetic. No. 11. Quote: O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. -- Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion" No. 12. Quote: Are you sure the back door is locked? No. 13. Quote: Think twice before speaking, but don't say "think think click click". No. 14. Quote: You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message. No. 15. Quote: This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" No. 16. Quote: Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an overdose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center. -- Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest. No. 17. Quote: Q: What is purple and commutes? A: An Abelian grape. No. 18. Quote: Next Friday will not be your lucky day. As a matter of fact, you don't have a lucky day this year. No. 19. Quote: You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider. No. 20. Quote: Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain No. 21. 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. 22. Quote: The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" No. 23. Quote: Q: What's tan and black and looks great on a lawyer? A: A doberman. No. 24. Quote: Q: What lies on the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A: A nervous wreck.