Humor: Best of Fortunes for Tuesday December 4, 2007

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of...
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.

Never have children, only grandchildren. --...
Never have children, only grandchildren. -- Gore Vidal

The difficult we do today; the impossible takes a little longer.
The difficult we do today; the impossible takes a little longer.

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts...
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existance recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength...

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might:...
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright -- And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night. -- Lewis Carroll

We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're...
We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure that it wasn't a fish. -- Marshall McLuhan

A fool and his money are invited places.
A fool and his money are invited places.

He who dies with the most toys wins.
He who dies with the most toys wins.

If his IQ was any lower he'd be a plant.
If his IQ was any lower he'd be a plant.

The hand that rocks the craddle usually is attached to someone...
The hand that rocks the craddle usually is attached to someone who isn't getting enough sleep.

"Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse." ...
"Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse." -- William Gilbert

How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi i done" in...
How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi i done" in a GUI? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces.)

I develop for Linux for a living, I used to develop...
I develop for Linux for a living, I used to develop for DOS. Going from DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117. (By entropy@world.std.com, Lawrence Foard)

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love...
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)

The founding fathers tried to set up a judicial system where...
The founding fathers tried to set up a judicial system where the accused received a fair trial, not a system to insure an acquittal on technicalities.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly...
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. -- Wilhelm Stekel