Freebsd Fortunes 2

About the only thing we have left that actually
discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
                -- Herbert Hoover

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt
ax.  It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Above all else - sky.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain.  He died in Washington, D.C.

ABSCOND:
        To be unexpectedly called away to the bedside
        of a dying relative and miss the return train.

abscond, v:
        To be unexpectedly called away to the bedside of a dying relative
        and miss the return train.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases
great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
                -- La Rochefoucauld

Absence in love is like water upon fire;
a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
                -- Hannah More