The technological fortune cookie!
Here are some words of wisdom spoken by famous writers, experienced bums on the street, magazines that knew no better, funnies, what have you.

• "In married life three is company and two none."
  - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I
  
  "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misforune; to lose both looks like carelessness"
  - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I
  

  "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means"
  - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II
  

  "I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation"
  - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, Act I
  

  "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written"
  - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface
  

  "Voulez-vous savoir le grand drame de ma vie? C'est que j'ai mis mon génie dans ma vie; je n'ai mis que mon talent dans mes oeurvres."
  "Do you want to know the great drama of my life? It's that I have put my genius into my life; all I've put into my works is my talent."
  - Oscar Wilde: In Memoriam, spoken to André Gide
  

  "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
  - Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
  

  "Certum est quia impossibile"
  "It is certain because it is impossible."
  - Tertullian, De Carne Cristi
  

  "They can do all because they think they can."
  - Virgil, Aeneid
  

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