Humor: Best of Fortunes for Monday September 18, 2006

THE WOMBAT The wombat lives across the seas, Among the...
THE WOMBAT The wombat lives across the seas, Among the far Antipodes. He may exist on nuts and berries, Or then again, on missionaries; His distant habitat precludes Conclusive knowledge of his moods. But I would not engage the wombat In any form...

At the heart of science is an essential tension between...
At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This...

Sometimes it happens. People just explode. Natural causes...
Sometimes it happens. People just explode. Natural causes. -- Repo Man

We are going to give a little something, a few little years...
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its ... Did I say socialism? -- Fidel Castro

Captain Penny's Law: You can fool all of the people...
Captain Penny's Law: You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle...
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. -- Edmond About

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight...
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping,...
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? -- Plato