Freebsd Fortunes 3

But if you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable
nowdays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
                -- Leslie Stephen, "Sketches from Cambridge"

But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the
system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed,
analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
                -- Bruce Leverett,
                "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"

But it does move!
                -- Galileo Galilei

But like the Good Book says... There's BIGGER DEALS to come!

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain
For promised joy.
                -- Robert Burns, "To a Mouse", 1785

But, officer, he's not drunk, I just saw his fingers twitch!

But Officer, I stopped for the last one, and it was green!

But scientists, who ought to know
Assure us that it must be so.
Oh, let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about.
                -- Hilaire Belloc

But sex and drugs and rock & roll, why, they'd bring our blackest day.

But since I knew now that I could hope for nothing of greater value than
frivolous pleasures, what point was there in denying myself of them?
                -- M. Proust