Freebsd Fortunes 4

It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair
to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
                -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether *I* win
or lose.
                -- Darrin Weinberg

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is
better still to be a live lion.  And usually easier.
                -- Lazarus Long

It may be that your whole purpose in life
is simply to serve as a warning to others.

It may or may not be worthwhile, but it still has to be done.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more
doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of
a new system.  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit
by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders
in those who would gain by the new ones.
                -- Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513

It must have been some unmarried fool that said "A child can ask questions
that a wise man cannot answer"; because, in any decent house, a brat that
starts asking questions is promptly packed off to bed.
                -- Arthur Binstead

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

It occurred to me lately that nothing has occurred to me lately.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of
one's life and then come round.
                -- Lord Alfred Douglas