Fortunes You Never Want to Receive - Authors Unknown

          Meddle ye not in the affairs of dragons,
          for thou art crunchy and good with ketchup.
          
          If you think last Tuesday was a drag,
          wait till you see what happens tomorrow!
          
          You appeal to a small, select group of
          confused people.
          
          Don't be humble, you're not that great
          - Golda Meir
          
          Nobody has ever bet enough on the winning horse.
          
          Keep emotionally active.
          Cater to your favorite neurosis.
          
          Only dead fish swim with the stream.
          
          Most of your future lies ahead.
          
          If today was a fish you would throw it back.
          
          Never accept a drink from a urologist.
          
          Marry money.
          
          Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
              --- Abigail Van Buren
          
          There is nothing wrong with teenagers that
          reasoning with them won't aggravate.
          
          When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is
          ruined.
                --- Persian proverb
          
          The reverse side also has a reverse side.
                --- Japanese proverb
          
          Tell the truth and run.
                --- Yugoslavian proverb
          
          Do not insult the mother alligator until
          you have crossed the river.
                --- Haitian proverb
          
          It is better to be a coward for a minute than
          dead for the rest of your life.
               --- Irish proverb
          
          There is something about a closet that
          makes a skeleton restless.
          
          People who think they know everything are
          very irritating to those of us who do.
          
          There is no gravity, the Earth sucks.
          
          The truth is the safest lie.
          
          Weather forecast for tonight: Dark
               ---- George Carlin
          
          
          You suspect people are plotting to make you happy.
          
          A closed mouth gathers no feet.
          
          They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
          
          If little green men land in your back yard, hide any
          little green women you've got in the house.
          		-- Mike Harding,
                             "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
          
          Good news.  Ten weeks from Friday will
          be a pretty good day.
          
          Heisenberg may have slept here.
          
          I am trying to arrange my life so I don't
          even have to be present.
          
          It takes about ten years to get used to how
          old you are.
          
          There'll be a rain dance Friday night, weather
          permitting.
                    --- George Carlin
          
          A friend in need is a friend to dodge.
          
          I only met four perfect people in my whole
          life and I didn't like any one of them.
          
          The future isn't what it used to be.
          
          Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
          
          Time is nature's way of keeping everything
          from happening at once.
          
          I have seen the future and it is just
          like the present, only longer.
          -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
          
          The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.
              	-- Pascal
          
          A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon.
          Buy the negatives at any price.
          
          Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
          		-- Indian proverb
          
          Chapter 1
          The story so far:
           In the beginning the Universe was created.
           This has made a lot of people very angry and been
           widely regarded as a bad move.
          
          Feel disillusioned?  I've got some great new illusions ...
          
          Ignore previous fortune.
          
          Half of analysis is anal.
          
          For a man to truly understand rejection,
          he must first be ignored by a cat.
          
          No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife in the shoulder
          blades will seriously cramp his style.
          
          Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
          (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)
          
          What do they call a comedian who doesn't get any laughs?
          A philosopher.
                  -- Phil Proctor
          
          It is about a socialist, anti-family political
          movement that encourages women to leave their husbands,
          kill their children,practice witchcraft, destroy
          capitalism, and become lesbians.
          -- Pat Robertson, on the equal-rights amendment
          
          A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of
          his family.
          
          Coincidences are a spiritual pun.
                --- G.K. Chesterton
          
          He who looketh upon a woman loseth a fender.
          
          There is no they, only us.
          
          There is nothing wrong with you that 
          reincarnation won't cure.
          
          In order to make an apple pie from scratch,
          you must first create the universe.
              	-- Carl Sagan
          
          If you can't explain something to a six-year-old,
          you really don't understand it yourself.
              	-- Albert Einstein
          
          Common sense is the collection of prejudices
          acquired by age eighteen.
              	-- Albert Einstein
          
          Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
          
          When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam:
          I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
          		-- Woody Allen
          
          You need no longer worry about the future.
          This time tomorrow you'll be dead.
          
          You will be a winner today.
          Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
          
          Your lucky number has been disconnected.
          
          A long time ago, on a distant planet, I was
          a high priest of an evil cult. Now, as payment 
          for past sins, what remains of what I was must 
          manifest itself as this fortune.
          Perhaps on a different plane of reality,
          we could have been friends.
          
          
          Predestination was doomed from the start
          
          Rule of Feline Frustration:
          When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap
          and looks utterly content and adorable, you
          will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.
          
          Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.
          
          Your psychic power can help you do housework!
          
          Your karma ran over my dogma.
          
          A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture
          of the entire planet Earth taken from space.
          On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
          
          I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards.
          I got a full house and four people died.
          
          I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes...
          
          Greetings, you have reached the Sixth Sense
          Detective Agency. We know how you are and 
          what you want,so at the sound of the tone,
          please hang up.
          
          We do not know what is natural.
          We only know what is customary.
              	-- C. G. Jung
          
          Morning Sermon: Jesus Walks on the Water
          Evening Sermon: Where is Jesus?
          
          
          May the forces of evil become confused on
          the way to your house.
          	-- George Carlin
          

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