Freebsd Fortunes

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland";
but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a  lot of sleep.
                -- W. C. Fields

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and
blow, "is to learn something.  That's the only thing that never fails.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at
night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only
love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or
know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds.  There is only
one thing for it then -- to learn.  Learn why the world wags and what
wags it.  That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust,
never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never
dream of regretting.  Learning is the only thing for you.  Look what a
lot of things there are to learn."
                -- T.H. White, "The Once and Future King"

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them
is a match.
                -- Will Rogers

The bigger the theory the better.

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse
time.
                -- Merrick Furst

The birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for Miss
Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public.

It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance.  Miss Manners has been
known to squeeze a gentleman's arm while being helped over a curb, and,
in her wild youth, even to press a dainty slipper against a foot or two
under the dinner table.  Miss Manners also believes that the sight of
people strolling hand in hand or arm in arm or arm in hand dresses up a
city considerably more than the more familiar sight of people shaking
umbrellas at one another.  What Miss Manners objects to is the kind of
activity that frightens the horses on the street ...

"The bland leadeth the bland and they both shall fall into the kitsch."