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The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft
voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1084 of 2171 |
The sixth shiek's sixth sheep's sick.
-- [just say that five times...]
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1085 of 2171 |
The sky is blue so we know where to stop mowing.
-- Judge Harold T. Stone
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1086 of 2171 |
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1087 of 2171 |
The smiling Spring comes in rejoicing,
And surly Winter grimly flies.
Now crystal clear are the falling waters,
And bonnie blue are the sunny skies.
Fresh o'er the mountains breaks forth the morning,
The ev'ning gilds the oceans's swell:
All creatures joy in the sun's returning,
And I rejoice in my bonnie Bell.
The flowery Spring leads sunny Summer,
The yellow Autumn presses near;
Then in his turn come gloomy Winter,
Till smiling Spring again appear.
Thus seasons dancing, life advancing,
Old Time and Nature their changes tell;
But never ranging, still unchanging,
I adore my bonnie Bell.
-- Robert Burns, "My Bonnie Bell"
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1088 of 2171 |
The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an
"airplane-seat" metaphor. Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers
while seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference --
one can see only a very few things at once.
-- Fred Brooks
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1089 of 2171 |
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the
rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
-- Max Lerner
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1090 of 2171 |
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and
tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will
have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor
its theories will hold water.
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1091 of 2171 |
The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore"
The queen knew she had seen his face someplace before
And slowly she let him inside.
He said, "I see you now, and you're so very young
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
And I have this intuition that it's all for your fun
And now will you tell me why?"
-- Suzanne Vega, "The Queen and The Soldier"
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1092 of 2171 |
The solution of problems is the most characteristic
and peculiar sort of voluntary thinking.
-- William James
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