Linux Platitudes

Removing the straw that broke the camel's back does not necessarily
allow the camel to walk again.

Rome was not built in one day.
                -- John Heywood

Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.
                -- Confucius, "Analects", Book 5, Ch. 9

-- Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minikin.
-- Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
-- Surveillance should precede saltation.
-- Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
-- It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed
        lacteal fluid.
-- Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
-- It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated
        canine with innovative maneuvers.
-- Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
-- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly
        galled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Farenheit.

Scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance.

Seek simplicity -- and distrust it.
                -- Alfred North Whitehead

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
                -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

Set the cart before the horse.
                -- John Heywood

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.
        [If youth but knew, if old age but could.]
                -- Henri Estienne