Freebsd Fortunes 7

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the
originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has
forgotten its source.
                -- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"

We prefer to speak evil of ourselves
rather than not speak of ourselves at all.

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who,
content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
                -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

We read to say that we have read.

We really don't have any enemies.
It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
                -- Thucydides

We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that reason is never perfect.
Only non-sense attains perfection.
                -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967]

We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much.
                -- Jean de la Bruyere

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is
in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove-lid.  She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that
is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
                -- Mark Twain