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…

"Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile."
— Karl Lehenbauer

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
— Mark Twain

"You'll never make it - four-groups are out. Go back to Liverpool."
— Decca Records executive to the Beatles in 1962

"Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian."
— Heywood Broun

"One never repents of having spoken too little, but often of having spoken too much."
— Philippe de Commynes

"Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others."
— Winston Churchill

It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.

"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."
— Polish Proverb

"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move."
— David Letterman

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
— Abraham Lincoln