Freebsd Fortunes 3

He jests at scars who never felt a wound.
                -- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2"

He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent.

He knew the tavernes well in every toun.
                -- Geoffrey Chaucer

He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.
                -- Sir Richard Burton

He laughs at every joke three times... once when it's told,
once when it's explained, and once when he understands it.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
                -- Ring Lardner

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
                -- Andrew Lang

He only knew his iron spine held up the sky -- he didn't realize his brain
had fallen to the ground.
                -- The Book of Serenity

(He opens a tolm and begins.)

        It says: "In the beginning was the Word."
        Already I am stopped.  It seems absurd.
        The Word does not deserve the highest prize,
        I must translate it otherwise.
        If I am well inspired and not blind.
        It says: "In the beginning was the Mind."
        Ponder that first line, wait and see,
        Lest you should write too hastily.
        Is the Mind the all-creating source?
        It ought to say: "In the beginning there was Force."
        Yet something warns me as I grasp the pen,
        That my translation must be changed again.
        The spirit helps me.  Now it is exact.
        I write: "In the beginning was the Act."
                -- Goethe's Faust

[He] played the King as if afraid someone else might play the ace.
                -- Unattributed review of a performance of King Lear.

My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.
                -- Peter Stack, movie review

His performance is so wooden you want to spray him with Liquid Pledge.
                -- John Stark, movie review