Freebsd Fortunes 6

The future lies ahead.

The future not being born, my friend,
we will abstain from baptizing it.
                -- George Meredith

The garden is in mourning;
The rain falls cool among the flowers.
Summer shivers quietly
On its way towards its end.

Golden leaf after leaf
Falls from the tall acacia.
Summer smiles, astonished, feeble,
In this dying dream of a garden.

For a long while, yet, in the roses,
She will linger on, yearning for peace,
And slowly
Close her weary eyes.
                -- Hermann Hesse, "September"

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the
people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people
drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
                -- Gore Vidal

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

The gentlemen looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

The girl who remembers her first kiss now has a daughter who can't even
remember her first husband.

The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress.

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
                -- Sophia Loren