//store the quotations in arrays
quotes = new Array(18);
authors = new Array(18);
quotes[0] = "Do not go where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path, and make a trail.";
authors[0] = "Ralph Waldo Emerson";
quotes[1] = "Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.";
authors[1] = "Mark Twain";
quotes[2] = "All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.";
authors[2] = "Alexandre Dumas";
quotes[3] = "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.";
authors[3] = "Matthew 5:16";
quotes[4] = "Old books are best ~ how tale and rhyme, Float with us down the stream of time!";
authors[4] = "Clarence Urmy, <i>Old Songs are Best<\/i>";
quotes[5] = "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.";
authors[5] = "Oscar Wilde";
quotes[6] = "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.";
authors[6] = "Mohandas Gandhi";
quotes[7] = "Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, no one is so highly prized as that of character.";
authors[7] = "Henry Clay";
quotes[8] = "Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.";
authors[8] = "St. Francis De Sales ";
quotes[9] = "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.";
authors[9] = "Thomas Edison ";
quotes[10] = "Guns aren't lawful, nooses give.  Gas smells awful.  You might as well live.";
authors[10] = "Dorothy Parker";
quotes[11] = "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.  Out, out, brief candle!  Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more.  It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.";
authors[11] = "Shakespeare ~ <i>MacBeth<\/i>";
quotes[12] = "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground:";
authors[12] = "Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad";
quotes[13] = "Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep.  Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep.";
authors[13] = "Shakespeare - Cleon from <i>Pericles<\/i> Act 1, scene 4";
quotes[14] = "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.";
authors[14] = "Rudyard Kipling";
quotes[15] = "We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!";
authors[15] = "Benjamin Franklin";
quotes[16] = "From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye....";
authors[16] = "William Butler Yeats";
quotes[17] = "The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.";
authors[17] = "Cicero";
quotes[18] = "If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough.";
authors[18] = "Mario Andretti";
//calculate a random index
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);
//display the quotation
document.write("<DL>\n");
document.write("<DT>" + "\"" + quotes[index] + "\"\n");
document.write("<DD>" + "-- " + authors[index] + "\n");
document.write("<\/DL>\n");
//done