Fortune Cookies

I didn’t know what else to call the items on this page. Quotable Quotes? Noteable Notes? Something else?

So I decided to just call ’em “Fortune Cookies,” and be done with it. Anyway, whatever they’re called, here are ten of ’em, randomly chosen just for you…

"The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
— Mark Twain

"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice."
— Prince Otto von Bismark

"Windows is now tuning your applications so they run faster. This might take several minutes."

"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring."
— La Rochefoucauld

In case of fire, evacuate the building.
Do not use stairways.
Do not use elevators.

(sign by elevator in Boston's Federal Reserve Bank building)

"The honeymoon is over when he phones that he'll be late for supper - and she has already left a note that it's in the refrigerator."
— Bill Lawrence

"Is there aught you would withold? All you have shall someday be given; therefore, give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'."
— Kahil Gibran

"A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first."
— Oscar Levant

"During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails."
— from a story in the Fresno Bee about Fresno State basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian

In case of fire, evacuate the building.
Do not use stairways.
Do not use elevators.

(sign by elevator in Boston's Federal Reserve Bank building)