Freebsd Fortunes 2

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt
ax.  It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Above all else - sky.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain.  He died in Washington, D.C.

ABSCOND:
        To be unexpectedly called away to the bedside
        of a dying relative and miss the return train.

abscond, v:
        To be unexpectedly called away to the bedside of a dying relative
        and miss the return train.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases
great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
                -- La Rochefoucauld

Absence in love is like water upon fire;
a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
                -- Hannah More

Absence is to love what wind is to fire.  It extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great.

Absence makes the heart forget.