Freebsd Fortunes 7

When we are planning for posterity,
we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
                -- Thomas Paine

When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find
anyone.  Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains,
two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge.  Never in the
history of war have so few been led by so many.
                -- General James Gavin

When we talk of tomorrow, the gods laugh.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be
as before -- except our finger-tips will have been singed.

When we write programs that "learn",
it turns out we do and they don't.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
                -- H.L. Mencken, "Sententiae"

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes;
when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not
even our virtues.
                -- Balzac

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
                -- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand"

When you are about to do an objective and scientific piece of investigation
of a topic, it is well to have the answer firmly in hand, so that you can
proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or swayed, directly to the
goal.
                -- Amrom Katz

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style;
when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
                -- St. Ambrose