Humor: Best of Fortunes for Wednesday November 14, 2007

Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying...
Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.

GENIUS: Person clever enough to be born in the right...
GENIUS: Person clever enough to be born in the right place at the right time of the right sex and to follow up this advantage by saying all the right things to all the right people.

Oh don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right...
Oh don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and none goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't...
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. -- Daniel J. Boorstin

Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning...
Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your...
The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back. -- Alfred De Musset

The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back...
The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,...
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away". -- Philip K. Dick

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much...
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. -- Albert Camus

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls,...
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret? -- Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe...
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. -- Lao Tsu

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece...
No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were;...

Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much...
Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing. -- Herodotus