Freebsd Fortunes 3

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
                -- P.J. Plauger, "Computer Language", 1988, April
                   Fool's column.

By nature, men are nearly alike;
by practice, they get to be wide apart.
                -- Confucius

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others
as it is to invent.
                -- R. Emerson
                -- Quoted from a fortune cookie program
                (whose author claims, "Actually, stealing IS easier.")
                [to which I reply, "You think it's easy for me to
                misconstrue all these misquotations?!?"  Ed.]

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
                -- Charles Spurgeon

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
                -- Titus Lucretius Carus

By the time you swear you're his,
shivering and sighing
and he vows his passion is
infinite, undying --
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
                -- Dorothy Parker, "Unfortunate Coincidence"

By the yard, life is hard.
By the inch, it's a cinch.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.
Another man's, I mean.
                -- Mark Twain

By working faithfully eight hours a day,
you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
                -- Robert Frost

byob, v:
        Believing Your Own Bull