Freebsd Fortunes

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a
statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more
glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through
which we look, which morally we can do.  To affect the quality of the
day, that is the highest of arts.
                -- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"

It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad
crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed
until the other has gone.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.
                -- Carl Sandburg

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
                -- Hawkwind

It is true that if your paperboy throws your paper into the bushes for
five straight days it can be explained by Newton's Law of Gravity.  But
it takes Murphy's law to explain why it is happening to you.

It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.

It may be bad manners to talk with your mouth full, but it isn't too
good either if you speak when your head is empty.

It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
warning to others.

"It runs like x, where x is something unsavory"
                -- Prof. Romas Aleliunas, CS 435

It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the
flag.