Linux Platitudes

Life is one long struggle in the dark.
                -- Titus Lucretius Carus

"Life is too important to take seriously."
                -- Corky Siegel

Life is too short to be taken seriously.
                -- Oscar Wilde

Look before you leap.
                -- Samuel Butler

Look ere ye leap.
                -- John Heywood

-- Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
-- Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be well advised
        to refrain from catapulting projectiles.
-- Neophyte's serendipity.
-- Exclusive dedication to necessitious chores without interludes of hedonistic
        diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow.
-- A revolving concretion of earthy or mineral matter accumulates no congeries
        of small, green bryophytic plant.
-- Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential escallation
        of a lucrative nature.
-- Missiles of ligneous or osteal consistency have the potential of fracturing
        osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.

Man is the measure of all things.
                -- Protagoras

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
                -- Plotinus

Many are called, few are chosen.  Fewer still get to do the choosing.

Many are called, few volunteer.