Freebsd Fortunes

The District of Columbia has a law forbidding you to exert pressure on
a balloon and thereby cause a whistling sound on the streets.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man
really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
                -- Gilbert K. Chesterson

The duck hunter trained his retriever to walk on water.  Eager to show
off this amazing accomplishment, he asked a friend to go along on his
next hunting trip.  Saying nothing, he fired his first shot and, as the
duck fell, the dog walked on the surface of the water, retrieved the
duck and returned it to his master.
        "Notice anything?" the owner asked eagerly.
        "Yes," said his friend, "I see that fool dog of yours can't
swim."

The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late
and owns the worm farm.
                -- Travis McGee

The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.

The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and
add ten percent.

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on
weather forecasters.
                -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann

"The eleventh commandment was `Thou Shalt Compute' or `Thou Shalt Not
Compute' -- I forget which."
                -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of
civilization.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the world will occur at 3:00 p.m., this Friday, with
symposium to follow.