Freebsd Fortunes

Tact, n.:
        The unsaid part of what you're thinking.

Take everything in stride.  Trample anyone who gets in your way.

Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting
enough cheese
                -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"

Take it easy, we're in a hurry.

Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it
needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
                -- Kipling

Take the folks at Coca-Cola.  For many years, they were content to sit
back and make the same old carbonated beverage.  It was a good
beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up
drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a
nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves
and the teacher says: "Imagine what it does to your TEETH!"  So
Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw
no need to improve ...
                -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"

Take your dying with some seriousness, however.  Laughing on the way to
your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life forms,
and they'll call you crazy.
                -- "Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul"

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
                -- Euripides

Talkers are no good doers.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
                -- Friedrich Nietzsche