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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…


"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then we elected them."
    — Lily Tomlin


We don't care. We have each other, on the Internet.
    — Dave Barry


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


"Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so."
    — Josh Billings


Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.


Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice.
    — Kirk, “Metamorphosis”, stardate 3220.3


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


"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
    — Mark Twain


"When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it."
    — Bernard Baily


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