Fortune Quotes - 29-02-2016_120002

No. 0. Quote:
A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you.

No. 1. Quote:
You have an unusual equipment for success. Be sure to use it properly.

No. 2. Quote:
Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.

No. 3. Quote:
Your own qualities will help prevent your advancement in the world.

No. 4. Quote:
I'll burn my books.
-- Christopher Marlowe

No. 5. Quote:
Q: How many supply-siders does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. The darkness will cause the light bulb to change by itself.

No. 6. Quote:
You should emulate your heros, but don't carry it too far. Especially
if they are dead.

No. 7. Quote:
Q: What's the difference between Bell Labs and the Boy Scouts of America?
A: The Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

No. 8. Quote:
Many enraged psychiatrists are inciting a weary butcher. The butcher is
weary and tired because he has cut meat and steak and lamb for hours and
weeks. He does not desire to chant about anything with raving psychiatrists,
but he sings about his gingivectomist, he dreams about a single cosmologist,
he thinks about his dog. The dog is named Herbert.
-- Racter, "The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed"

No. 9. Quote:
Your motives for doing whatever good deed you may have in mind will be
misinterpreted by somebody.

No. 10. Quote:
You will receive a legacy which will place you above want.

No. 11. Quote:
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we
are not the person involved.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

No. 12. Quote:
You look like a million dollars. All green and wrinkled.

No. 13. Quote:
ROMEO: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
MERCUTIO: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide
as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.

No. 14. Quote:
FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #4
A: Go west, young man, go west!
Q: What do wabbits do when they get tiwed of wunning awound?

No. 15. Quote:
I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, 'The
books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone
today!
-- Tamim Ansary, "Edutopia Magazine, Issue 2, November 2004"
on the topic of school textbooks

No. 16. Quote:
You have a will that can be influenced by all with whom you come in contact.

No. 17. Quote:
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

No. 18. Quote:
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion
that makes horse-races.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

No. 19. Quote:
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
down-stairs a step at a time.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

No. 20. Quote:
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a
week sometimes to make it up.
-- Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"

No. 21. Quote:
You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.

No. 22. Quote:
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
-- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand"

No. 23. Quote:
Of course you have a purpose -- to find a purpose.

No. 24. Quote:
Q: Why did the WASP cross the road?
A: To get to the middle.