Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

Home › Fortune Cookies › Miscellaneous Collections

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
Experience, n: Something you don't get until just after you need it. -- Olivie
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing...
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.
External Security
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. There are many examples of outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies, but they prevailed with irrefutable data.
More ofte...
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. -- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
-- Barry Goldwate...

< previous

10259