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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…


"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."
    — Bill Vaughan


The best way to save face is to keep the lower part full


"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."
    — Somerset Maugham


"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."
    — Mary Ellen Kelly


"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
    — English Professor, Ohio University


... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed.


"Swimming teachers required. For both Children and Adults, ASA qualified. Must be prepared to go in the water."
    — advertisement in the Hendon (U.K.) Times


"No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side."
    — Jascha Heifetz


"The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust."
    — Persian proverb


"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we *are* a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe, we *are* a part of Europe."
    — former US Vice President Dan Quayle