Freebsd Fortunes

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.

It shall be unlawful for any suspicious person to be within the
municipality.
                -- Local ordinance, Euclid Ohio

"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing,
but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous."
                -- Robert Benchly

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

"It was a virgin forest, a place where the Hand of Man had never set
foot."

It was one of those perfect summer days -- the sun was shining, a
breeze was blowing, the birds were singing, and the lawn mower was
broken ...
                -- James Dent

"It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day.  Perhaps
I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it.  I
don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and
the signature (which I guessed at).  There's a singular and a perpetual
charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its
novelty .... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but
yours are kept forever -- unread.  One of them will last a reasonable
man a lifetime."
                -- Thomas Aldrich

It wasn't that she had a rose in her teeth, exactly.  It was more like
the rose and the teeth were in the same glass.