Freebsd Fortunes 6

The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to show up
at the steam fitters picnic.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.
                -- Eric Sevareid

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense
                -- Picasso

The church is near but the road is icy,
the bar is far away but I will walk carefully.
                -- Russian Proverb

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
                -- Elbert Hubbard

The City of Palo Alto, in its official description of parking lot standards,
specifies the grade of wheelchair access ramps in terms of centimeters of
rise per foot of run.  A compromise, I imagine...

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
                -- John Muir

The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity;
the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a
military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and
private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of charity and devotion;
and the soldiers' pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes
who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity.
                -- Edward Gibbons, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere.