Freebsd Fortunes 6

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Indian Giver be the name of the Lord.

The Lord prefers common-looking people.  That is the reason that He makes
so many of them.
                -- Abraham Lincoln

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of
the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at
her nubile feet, when the strong clear voice of the poetic and heroic
Handsomas roared, 'Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my
steel through your last meal!'
                -- Winning sentence, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

The luck that is ordained for you will be coveted by others.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact...
                -- Wm. Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.

The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
                -- Benjamin Disraeli

The main problem I have with cats is, they're not dogs.
                -- Kevin Cowherd

The major advances in civilization are processes
that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
                -- A.N. Whitehead