Freebsd Fortunes

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation
perfectly delightful.
                -- Sydney Smith

He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely wild and
heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope
of ever behaving "normally."
                -- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing '72"

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
                -- Oscar Wilde

"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."
                -- Mark Twain

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
                -- John Mason Brown, drama critic

He thought he saw an albatross
That fluttered 'round the lamp.
He looked again and saw it was
A penny postage stamp.
"You'd best be getting home," he said,
"The nights are rather damp."

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
                -- Jonathon Swift

"He was a modest, good-humored boy.  It was Oxford that made him
insufferable."

"He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both
eyes ..."