Don't read any sky-writing for the next two weeks.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

You fill a much-needed gap.

Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.

Your lover will never wish to leave you.

Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.

Q: What does it say on the bottom of Coke cans in North Dakota?

A: Open other end.

Q: Why do WASPs play golf ?

A: So they can dress like pimps.

F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:

"Ernest, the rich are different from us."

Hemingway:

"Yes. They have more money."

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream too.

-- Lewis Carroll

You will pass away very quickly.

You will soon forget this.

He jests at scars who never felt a wound.

-- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2"

You will be recognized and honored as a community leader.

October 12, the Discovery.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss

it.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

October.

This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.

The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June,

December, August, and February.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #21

A: Dr. Livingston I. Presume.

Q: What's Dr. Presume's full name?

Q: Know what the difference between your latest project

and putting wings on an elephant is?

A: Who knows? The elephant *might* fly, heh, heh...

Your boss climbed the corporate ladder, wrong by wrong.

Q: What's the difference betweeen USL and the Graf Zeppelin?

A: The Graf Zeppelin represented cutting edge technology for its time.