Freebsd Fortunes 4: 639 of 2327 |
I sent a letter to the fish, I said it very loud and clear,
I told them, "This is what I wish." I went and shouted in his ear.
The little fishes of the sea, But he was very stiff and proud,
They sent an answer back to me. He said "You needn't shout so loud."
The little fishes' answer was And he was very proud and stiff,
"We cannot do it, sir, because..." He said "I'll go and wake them if..."
I sent a letter back to say I took a kettle from the shelf,
It would be better to obey. I went to wake them up myself.
But someone came to me and said But when I found the door was locked
"The little fishes are in bed." I pulled and pushed and kicked and
knocked,
I said to him, and I said it plain And when I found the door was shut,
"Then you must wake them up again." I tried to turn the handle, But...
"Is that all?" asked Alice.
"That is all." said Humpty Dumpty. "Goodbye."
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 640 of 2327 |
I sent a message to another time,
But as the days unwind -- this I just can't believe,
I sent a message to another plane,
Maybe it's all a game -- but this I just can't conceive.
...
I met someone who looks at lot like you,
She does the things you do, but she is an IBM.
She's only programmed to be very nice,
But she's as cold as ice, whenever I get too near,
She tells me that she likes me very much,
But when I try to touch, she makes it all too clear.
...
I realize that it must seem so strange,
That time has rearranged, but time has the final word,
She knows I think of you, she reads my mind,
She tries to be unkind, she knows nothing of our world.
-- ELO, "Yours Truly, 2095"
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 641 of 2327 |
I shall come to you in the night and we shall see who is stronger --
a little girl who won't eat her dinner or a great big man with cocaine
in his veins.
-- Sigmund Freud, in a letter to his fiancee
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 642 of 2327 |
I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether
it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether
he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right
that matters, but victory.
-- Adolph Hitler
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 643 of 2327 |
I shot an arrow in to the air, and it stuck.
-- graffito in Los Angeles
On a clear day,
U.C.L.A.
-- graffito in San Francisco
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our
lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
-- Robert Orben
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 644 of 2327 |
I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.
-- Los Angeles graffito
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 645 of 2327 |
I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than
most western countries.
-- George Burns
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 646 of 2327 |
I smell a wumpus.
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 647 of 2327 |
I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker
Brothers -- they're going to make a game out of it.
-- Woody Allen
|
|
|
Freebsd Fortunes 4: 648 of 2327 |
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his
ability.
-- Oscar Wilde
|
|