Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

Home › Fortune Cookies › Miscellaneous Collections

The wind passeth over it, and it is gone; -- Old Testament -- Psalm ciii, 16
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
-- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. lxviii...
The wind seems to have abated some.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iv, Line 1092...
The wine is good but the meat is spoiled.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act ii, Sc. 3...
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.
Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?...
The wisdom of our ancestors. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Observations on Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation, -- Vol.
i, p. 516, Also in the Discussion on the Traitorous Correspo...
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)...
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
-- Bill Vaugha...

< previous

7644