Freebsd Fortunes 3

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real
disasters in life begin when you get what you want.

Being in politics is like being a football coach.  You have to be smart
enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
                -- Eugene McCarthy

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the
Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
                -- Blake Clark

Being owned by someone used to be called
slavery -- now it's called commitment.

Being popular is important.  Otherwise people might not like you.

Being stoned on marijuana isn't very
different from being stoned on gin.
                -- Ralph Nader

Being the #2 man in the Justice Department under Ed Meese is akin to
standing next to a lamp post infested with pigeons.
                -- unnamed Justice Department official

Being ugly isn't illegal.  Yet.

belief, n:
        Something you do not believe.

Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too
impossibly bad.
                -- Honore DeBalzac