Freebsd Fortunes

It may be bad manners to talk with your mouth full, but it isn't too
good either if you speak when your head is empty.

It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
warning to others.

"It runs like x, where x is something unsavory"
                -- Prof. Romas Aleliunas, CS 435

It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the
flag.

It shall be unlawful for any suspicious person to be within the
municipality.
                -- Local ordinance, Euclid Ohio

"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing,
but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous."
                -- Robert Benchly

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

"It was a virgin forest, a place where the Hand of Man had never set
foot."

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 pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day.  Perhaps
I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it.  I
don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and
the signature (which I guessed at).  There's a singular and a perpetual
charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its
novelty .... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but
yours are kept forever -- unread.  One of them will last a reasonable
man a lifetime."
                -- Thomas Aldrich