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Fortune cookies

Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>

Date: 17 Jun, 2021

-- Tallulah Bankhead

Will divide, multiply, and subtract.

But this output can be

No more than debris,

If the input was short of exact.

-- Gigo

A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath

is called the listener.

thumb with a hammer.

-- Marshall Lumsden

-- Jawaharlal Nehru

-- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance,

my grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off

the fence." I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was

undoubtedly true.

-- Solomon Short

That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we

still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise

to commit.

-- Ambrose Bierce

-- Prof. Steiner

theorem.

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

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

The amount of time required to complete a government project is

precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.

-- Herbert Prochnow

-- Bill Hoest

lightly greased.

-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"

A billboard lovely as a tree.

Perhaps, unless the billboards fall

I'll never see a tree at all.

-- Ogden Nash

An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race

by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is

inferior in scope, for it balks at pig.

-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave

that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska.

The world's as ugly as sin,

And almost as delightful.

-- Frederick Locker-Lampson

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

And tasted it, and found it good.

And that is why your Cousin May

Fell through the parlor floor today.

-- Ogden Nash

that would be clearly understood."

-- Alexander Haig