Linux Literature

This night methinks is but the daylight sick.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

This was the most unkindest cut of all.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

To be or not to be.
                -- Shakespeare
To do is to be.
                -- Nietzsche
To be is to do.
                -- Sartre
Do be do be do.
                -- Sinatra

Too much is just enough.
                -- Mark Twain, on whiskey

Training is everything.  The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is
nothing but cabbage with a college education.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.
                -- Mark Twain

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues
of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself
a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst
be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.  I wasted time and now doth
time waste me.
                -- William Shakespeare

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
                -- Mark Twain

Water, taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody.
                -- Mark Twain

We know all about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the
bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster.  It seems
almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the
oyster.
                -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"