Freebsd Fortunes 6

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
                -- Elbert Hubbard

To be a kind of moral Unix, he touched the hem of Nature's shift.
                -- Shelley

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who
should demand more from her?  You don't want a rose to sing.
                -- Thackeray

To be considered successful, a woman must be much better at her job
than a man would have to be.  Fortunately, this isn't difficult.

To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North
Star.  As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.
                -- Confucius

To be great is to be misunderstood.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be happy one must be a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in
Zion, b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's
fellow men, and c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste.
It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country
in the world wherein a man constituted as I am -- a man of my peculiar
weaknesses, vanities, appetites, and aversions -- can be so happy as he can
be in the United States.  Going further, I lay down the doctrine that it is
a sheer physical impossibility for such a man to live in the United States
and not be happy.
                -- H.L. Mencken, "On Being An American"

To be is to be related.
                -- C.J. Keyser.

To be is to do.
                -- I. Kant
To do is to be.
                -- A. Sartre
Do be a Do Bee!
                -- Miss Connie, Romper Room
Do be do be do!
                -- F. Sinatra
Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
                -- F. Flintstone

To be loved is very demoralizing.
                -- Katharine Hepburn