Freebsd Fortunes 2

A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.
                -- Chinese proverb

A witty saying proves nothing.
                -- Voltaire

A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit,
let alone discuss with prospective clients.  Still, the fact remains that
there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another,
completely immune to any direct magical spell.  It is for this group of
beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells.
It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club
near your person at all times.
                -- The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it
were quite a struggle.
                -- Edna Ferber

A woman can never be too rich or too thin.

A woman did what a woman had to, the best way she knew how.
To do more was impossible, to do less, unthinkable.
                -- Dirisha, "The Man Who Never Missed"

A woman employs sincerity only when every other form of deception has failed.
                -- Scott

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune
of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
                -- Jane Austen

A woman forgives the audacity of which
her beauty has prompted us to be guilty.
                -- LeSage

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be
thankful for a good one.
                -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings