Freebsd Fortunes 4

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a
sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate
in all times and situations.  They presented him the words: "And this,
too, shall pass away."
                -- A. Lincoln

It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the
lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as
high as the eagle?

It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for.
                -- Epitaph, Cheltenham Churchyard

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the
devil when he is the only explanation of it.
                -- Ronald Knox, "Let Dons Delight"

It is so very hard to be an on-your-own-take-care-of-
yourself-because-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown up.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a
statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious
to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,
which morally we can do.  To affect the quality of the day, that is the
highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details,
worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
                -- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
                -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

It is the business of little minds to shrink.
                -- Carl Sandburg

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
                -- Hawkwind

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will
set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
                -- Francis Bacon