Freebsd Fortunes 7: 71 of 1340 |
We read to say that we have read.
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 72 of 1340 |
We really don't have any enemies.
It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 73 of 1340 |
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
-- Thucydides
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 74 of 1340 |
We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that reason is never perfect.
Only non-sense attains perfection.
-- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967]
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 75 of 1340 |
We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much.
-- Jean de la Bruyere
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 76 of 1340 |
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is
in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that
is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
-- Mark Twain
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 77 of 1340 |
We should be glad we're living in the time that we are. If any of us had been
born into a more enlightened age, I'm sure we would have immediately been taken
out and shot.
-- Strange de Jim
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 78 of 1340 |
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were
taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things
themselves.
-- John Locke
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 79 of 1340 |
We should have a Vollyballocracy. We elect a six-pack of presidents.
Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate.
-- Dennis Miller
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 80 of 1340 |
We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square.
-- S.I. Hayakawa
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