Freebsd Fortunes 7

When people say nothing, they don't necessarily mean nothing.

When pleasure remains, does it remain a pleasure?

When President Paul Doumer of France was assassinated in Paris in 1932,
newspapers differed in their versions of the event.  This is from "Paris
was Yesterday: 1925-1939" by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman.

        Taste varied as to his cry when he was shot down, the more popular
        papers preferring his despairing "Oh, la la!," the graver dailies
        favoring "Is it possible?"  What few reported were his dying words:
        "But what kind of chauffeur was it?"  Having been told by his aides
        not that he had been shot but that he had been struck by a taxi, the
        President spent the last conscious moments of his life wondering how
        how an automobile got into the charity book sale at the Maison
        Rothschild, where his assassination occurred.

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for
every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your boss
is away and you get twice as much done.
                -- Daniel B. Luten

When smashing monuments, save the pedstals -- they always come in handy.
                -- Stanislaw J. Lem, "Unkempt Thoughts"

When some people decide it's time for everyone to make
big changes, it means that they want you to change first.

When some people discover the truth, they just
can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.

When someone makes a move               We'll send them all we've got,
Of which we don't approve,              John Wayne and Randolph Scott,
Who is it that always intervenes?       Remember those exciting fighting scenes?
U.N. and O.A.S.,                        To the shores of Tripoli,
They have their place, I guess,         But not to Mississippoli,
But first, send the Marines!            What do we do?  We send the Marines!

For might makes right,                  Members of the corps
And till they've seen the light,        All hate the thought of war:
They've got to be protected,            They'd rather kill them off by
                                                peaceful means.
All their rights respected,             Stop calling it aggression--
Till somebody we like can be elected.   We hate that expression!
                                        We only want the world to know
                                        That we support the status quo;
                                        They love us everywhere we go,
                                        So when in doubt, send the Marines!
                -- Tom Lehrer, "Send The Marines"

When someone says "I want a programming language in
which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

When speculation has done its worst, two plus two still equals four.
                -- S. Johnson