You will gain money by a speculation or lottery.

This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

Q: How do you play religious roulette? A: You stand around in a circle and blaspheme and see who gets struck by lightning first.

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"

You will give someone a piece of your mind, which you can ill afford.

Your boyfriend takes chocolate from strangers.

You'd like to do it instantaneously, but that's too slow.

No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! -- Sherlock Holmes

You could live a better life, if you had a better mind and a better body.

The Least Successful Collector Betsy Baker played a central role in the history of collecting. She was employed as a servant in the house of John Warburton (1682-1759) who had amassed a fine collection of 58 first edition plays, including most of the works of Shakespeare. One day Warburton returned home to find 55 of them charred beyond legibility. Betsy had either burned them or used them as pie bottoms. The remaining three folios are now in the British Museum. The only comparable literary figure was the maid who in 1835 burned the manuscript of the first volume of Thomas Carlyle's "The Hisory of the French Revolution", thinking it was wastepaper. -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"

Q: Are we not men? A: We are Vaxen.

That secret you've been guarding, isn't.

You too can wear a nose mitten.

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. -- Ernest Hemingway

You will be honored for contributing your time and skill to a worthy cause.

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever. -- Samuel Beckett, "Endgame"

You have a truly strong individuality.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. -- Mark Twain

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET." -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"