Freebsd Fortunes 6

The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright --
And this was very odd, because it was
The middle of the night.
                -- Lewis Carroll

The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
                -- Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dispossessed"

The superfluous is very necessary.
                -- Voltaire

The superior man understands what is right;
the inferior man understands what will sell.
                -- Confucius

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their
way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,
whom he assumes to have perfect vision.  Each tends to ascribe to the other
side a consistency, forsight and coherence that its own experience belies.
Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to
speak of the room.
                -- Henry Kissinger

The Supreme Court does it with all deliberate speed.

The surest sign that a man is in love is when he divorces his wife.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
                -- Nietzsche

The surest way to remain a winner is to
win once, and then not play any more.

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core --
Scratch a lover and find a foe!
                -- Dorothy Parker, "Ballad of a Great Weariness"