Favourite fortune quotes

o I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
o Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.
o I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
o Barth's Distinction:
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
o Get forgiveness now -- tomorrow you may no longer feel guilty.
o Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
-- Mark Twain
o Xerox never comes up with anything original.
o Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain
o Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like a banana
o You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
o pi seconds is a nanocentury.
-- Tom Duff
o A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
o If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
o Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are.
o The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
-- St. Augustine

Brynjulf Owren <bryn[+]math.ntnu.no>
Last modified: Fri Sep 2 13:57:41 MEST 2005