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  fortune index  all fortunes 
  
 |  |  | #10901 |  | Keep grandma off the streets -- legalize bingo. 
 |  |  |  | #10902 |  | Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. -- Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
 
 |  |  |  | #10903 |  | Life is a game of bridge -- and you've just been finessed. 
 |  |  |  | #10904 |  | Life is a game.  In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else.  If what already is, is more important
 than what isn't, the game is over.  So, life is a game in which what
 isn't, is more important than what is.  Let the good times roll.
 -- Werner Erhard
 
 |  |  |  | #10905 |  | Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string. 
 |  |  |  | #10906 |  | Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game.  You want us to pay income taxes, too?
 -- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox
 
 |  |  |  | #10907 |  | Love means nothing to a tennis player. 
 |  |  |  | #10908 |  | Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man
 picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and
 whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire.
 
 What inner force drove this first athlete?  Your guess is as good as
 mine.  Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.
 -- Dave Barry, "Sports is a Drag"
 
 |  |  |  | #10909 |  | MARTA SAYS THE INTERESTING thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand.
 
 Come on, Marta, grow up.
 -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
 
 |  |  |  | #10910 |  | MARTA WAS WATCHING THE FOOTBALL GAME with me when she said, "You know most of these sports are based on the idea of one group protecting its
 territory from invasion by another group."
 
 "Yeah," I said, trying not to laugh.  Girls are funny.
 -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
 
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