Freebsd Fortunes 4

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker
know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?
                -- Plato

In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.
                -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Juan"

In high school in Brooklyn
I was the baseball manager,
proud as I could be
I chased baseballs,
gathered thrown bats
handed out the towels                   Eventually, I bought my own
It was very important work              but it was dark blue while
for a small spastic kid,                the official ones were green
but I was a team member                 Nobody ever said anything
When the team got                       to me about my blue jacket;
their warm-up jackets                   the guys were my friends
I didn't get one                        Yet it hurt me all year
Only the regular team                   to wear that blue jacket
got these jackets, and                  among all those green ones
surely not a manager                    Even now, forty years after,
                                        I still recall that jacket
                                        and the memory goes on hurting.
                -- Bart Lanier Safford III, "An Obscured Radiance"

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy.  It's trying to live together
afterwards that causes the problems.
                -- Shelley Winters

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.
                -- Rex Reed

In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into
use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather
which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
                -- Mark Twain

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
and the Renaissance.  In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had
five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce?
The cuckoo-clock.
                -- Orson Welles, "The Third Man"

In just seven days, I can make you a man!
                -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
        [ (and seven nights...)  Ed.]

In less than a century, computers will be making substantial
progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace.
                -- James Slagle

In like a dimwit, out like a light.
                -- Pogo