Freebsd Fortunes 3

Even a cabbage may look at a king.

Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.

Even a man who is pure at heart,
And says his prayers at night
Can become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,
And the moon is full and bright.
                -- The Wolf Man, 1941

Even God cannot change the past.
                -- Joseph Stalin

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
                -- Menander

Even if you do learn to speak correct
English, whom are you going to speak it to?
                -- Clarence Darrow

Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.
                -- Aristophanes

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
                -- Will Rogers

Even in the moment of our earliest kiss,
When sighed the straitened bud into the flower,
Sat the dry seed of most unwelcome this;
And that I knew, though not the day and hour.
Too season-wise am I, being country-bred,
To tilt at autumn or defy the frost:
Snuffing the chill even as my fathers did,
I say with them, "What's out tonight is lost."
I only hoped, with the mild hope of all
Who watch the leaf take shape upon the tree,
A fairer summer and a later fall
Than in these parts a man is apt to see,
And sunny clusters ripened for the wine:
I tell you this across the blackened vine.
                -- Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Even in the Moment of
                   Our Earliest Kiss", 1931

Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.