Freebsd Fortunes 6

The best equipment for your work is, of course, the most expensive.
However, your neighbor is always wasting money that should be yours
by judging things by their price.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do
what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with
them while they do it.
                -- Theodore Roosevelt

The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department.

The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.
                -- Blair

The best man for the job is often a woman.

The best number for a dinner party is two -- myself and a damn good
head waiter.
                -- Nubar Gulbenkian

The best portion of a good man's life, his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
                -- Wordsworth

The best prophet of the future is the past.

The best rebuttal to this kind of statistical argument came from the
redoubtable John W. Campbell:

        The laws of population growth tell us that approximately half the
        people who were ever born in the history of the world are now
        dead.  There is therefore a 0.5 probability that this message is
        being read by a corpse.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and
fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are
drifting side by side to our common doom.
                -- Clarence Darrow