Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

Home › Fortune Cookies › Miscellaneous Collections

I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Coriolanus -- Act ii, Sc. 3...
It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater.
The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was just a jest and applauded....
It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. v...
It happens in an hour, that happens not in seven years. -- Proverb
It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Prior's Life of Burke...
It has always been true that in the United States the people who ought to read books write them.
-- Gore Vidal -- [Editor's note: Now if Vidal would only take his own advice...]...
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
-- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xiv, Sect. 141...
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil.
The want of money is so quite as truly. -- Samuel Butle...

< previous

3838