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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
-- George Eliot
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then
asks you not to kill him.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, 1952
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as a public indecency.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
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Freebsd Fortunes 2: 868 of 1371 |
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Freebsd Fortunes 2: 869 of 1371 |
A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of
being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of
incomprehensible answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague
assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents
and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of
dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of
annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was
unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.
-- IEEE Grid newsmagazine
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Freebsd Fortunes 2: 870 of 1371 |
A programming language is low level
when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to
drink with -- even if he drank.
-- Mencken
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A prominent broadcaster, on a big-game safari in Africa, was taken to a
watering hole where the life of the jungle could be observed. As he
looked down from his tree platform and described the scene into his
tape recorder, he saw two gnus grazing peacefully. So preoccupied were
they that they failed to observe the approach of a pride of lions led
by two magnificent specimens, obviously the leaders. The lions charged,
killed the gnus, and dragged them into the bushes where their feasting
could not be seen. A little while later the two kings of the jungle
emerged and the radioman recorded on his tape: "Well, that's the end of
the gnus and here, once again, are the head lions."
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A promiscuous person is usually someone who is
getting more sex than you are.
-- Victor Lownes
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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female
by virtue of a certain lack of qualities -- a natural defectiveness.
-- Aristotle
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