Freebsd Fortunes 4

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
                -- Mark Twain

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

It was a brave man that ate the first oyster.

It was a fine, sweet night, the nicest since my divorce, maybe the nicest
since the middle of my marriage.  There was energy, softness, grace and
laughter.  I even took my socks off.  In my circle, that means class.
                -- Andrew Bergman "The Big Kiss-off of 1944"

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country.  The Greeks
never said it was sweet to die for anything.  They had no vital lies.
                -- Edith Hamilton, "The Greek Way"

It was all so different before everything changed.

It was kinda like stuffing the wrong card in a computer,
when you're stickin' those artificial stimulants in your arm.
                -- Dion, noted computer scientist

It was one of those perfect summer days -- the sun was shining, a breeze
was blowing, the birds were singing, and the lawn mower was broken ...
                --- James Dent

It was one time too many
One word too few
It was all too much for me and you
There was one way to go
Nothing more we could do
One time too many
One word too few
                -- Meredith Tanner

It was Penguin lust... at its ugliest.