Freebsd Fortunes 5

One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
                -- George M. Cohan

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends
can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
                -- Clifton Fadiman

One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell by Dickens
without laughing.
                -- Oscar Wilde

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from
one end to the other.  Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70
percent discipline, like learning Latin.  But the good parts are, of course,
simply amazing.  God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good,
nobody can touch him.
                -- John Gardner, NYT Book Review, Jan. 1983

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an
advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from
mathematics.
                -- N. Wiener

One of the disadvantages of having children is that they eventually get old
enough to give you presents they make at school.
                -- Robert Byrne