Freebsd Fortunes 6

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
                -- Henry Kissinger

The longer the title, the less important the job.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
                -- Marcus Terentius Varro

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we
could grab as much as we could with both of them.
                -- Major Major's father

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Indian Giver be the name of the Lord.

The Lord prefers common-looking people.  That is the reason that He makes
so many of them.
                -- Abraham Lincoln

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of
the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at
her nubile feet, when the strong clear voice of the poetic and heroic
Handsomas roared, 'Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my
steel through your last meal!'
                -- Winning sentence, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

The luck that is ordained for you will be coveted by others.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact...
                -- Wm. Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"