Freebsd Fortunes 3

Ego sum ens omnipotens

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature
to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
                -- Bellamy Brooks

Egotism is the anesthetic which numbs the pain of stupidity.

Egotism, n:
        Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

Egotist, n:
        A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
                -- Ambrose Bierce

egrep -n '^[a-z].*(' $ | sort -t':' +2.0

Ehrman's Commentary:
        1.  Things will get worse before they get better.
        2.  Who said things would get better?

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
                -- Ronald Reagan, famous movie star

...eighty years later he could still recall with the young pang of his
original joy his falling in love with Ada.
                -- Nabokov

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because
God is not capricious or arbitrary.  No such faith comforts the software
engineer.
                -- Fred Brooks

Eisenhower was very nice,
Nixon was his only vice.
                -- C. Degen