Freebsd Fortunes 3

Better hope the life-inspector doesn't come
around while you have your life in such a mess.

Better hope you get what you want before you stop wanting it.

Better late than never.
                -- Titus Livius (Livy)

Better living a beggar than buried an emperor.

Better the prince of some inferior court,
Than second, or less, in beatific light.
                -- Lucifer, Joost van den Vondel's "Lucifer"

Better to be nouveau than never to have been riche at all.

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
                -- motto of the Christopher Society

Better to use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
                -- Jeff Cooper

Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay,
left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate.  Using a
bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort
pushing boulders into a single word.
        It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow.
Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin
equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the
destruction of this cairn, that wouldn't alert the press and embarrass both
Parliament and Party.
        It stands today, a monument to human spirit.  If life exists on other
planets, this may be the first message received from us.
                -- The Realist, November, 1964.