Freebsd Fortunes 5

Opium is very cheap considering you don't
feel like eating for the next six days.
                -- Taylor Mead, famous transvestite

Oppernockity tunes but once.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard
work, so most people don't recognize them.

Oprah Winfrey has an incredible talent for getting the wierdest people to
talk to.  And you just HAVE to watch it.  "Blind, masochistic minority,
crippled, depressed, government latrine diggers, and the women who love
them too much on the next Oprah Winfrey."

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
                -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack Up"

Optimism, n:
The belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, good, bad,
and everything right that is wrong.  It is held with greatest tenacity by
those accustomed to falling into adversity, and most acceptably expounded
with the grin that apes a smile.  Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible
to the light of disproof -- an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment
but death.  It is hereditary, but not contagious.

OPTIMIST:
        A proponent of the belief that black is white.

        A pessimist asked God for relief.
        "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
        "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that
would justify them."
        "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked
something -- the mortality of the optimist."
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

OPTIMIST:
        Someone who goes down to the marriage
        bureau to see if his license has expired.

optimist, n:
        A bagpiper with a beeper.

Optimization hinders evolution.