Freebsd Fortunes

"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
                -- Winston Churchill, On formal declarations of war

When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by
asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't
know the answer either.
                -- Edgar R. Fiedler

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.
                -- The Wall Street Journal

When you try to make an impression, the chances are that is the
impression you will make.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely,
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
Here's the rub, my darling dear
I feel the same when you are near.
                -- Samuel Hoffenstein, "When You're Away"

When you're not looking at it, this fortune is written in FORTRAN.

Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".
                -- Dave Parnas

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to
see it tried on him personally.
                -- A. Lincoln

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
                -- Oscar Wilde

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last
you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his
Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
                -- Mark Twain
                   "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"