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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…


"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
    — Woody Allen


"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
    — Thomas Edison


"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
    — Charles F. Kettering


"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."
    — Woody Allen


"I'm one of those mayors whose management style is to allow free and unlimited debate up to a point."
    — Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry


"As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so."
    — Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan Attorney


"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
    — George Bernard Shaw


Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.


"Don't let your opinion sway your judgement."
    — movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn


"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
    — Stephen Leacock