What one fool can do, another can.
-- Ancient Simian Proverb
[platitudes/451]
Posts by Linux Fortunes
If people drank ink instead of Schlitz, they'd be better off.
-- Edward E. Hippensteel
[What brand of ink? Ed.]
[drugs/82]
Quid me anxius sum?
[ What? Me, worry? ]
[translate-me/7]
If a person is FAMOUS in this country, they have to go on the ROAD for
MONTHS at a time and have their name misspelled on the SIDE of a
GREYHOUND SCENICRUISER!!
[zippy/284]
Davis' Law of Traffic Density:
The density of rush-hour traffic is directly proportional to
1.5 times the amount of extra time you allow to arrive on time.
[definitions/246]
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
-- Vroomfondel
[education/186]
Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
A: A stick.
[riddles/65]
You had mail, but the super-user read it, and deleted it!
[computers/1004]
Earth Destroyed by Solar Flare -- film clips at eleven.
[news/15]
The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from
the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called
cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
-- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch"
[pratchett/1]
Ego sum ens omnipotens.
[translate-me/2]
Two brothers, Mort and Bill, like to sail. While Bill has a great
deal of experience, he certainly isn't the rigger Mort is.
[sports/138]
Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else.
-- Peter Arshinov
[anarchism/793]
Hi! You have reached 555-0129. None of us are here to answer the phone and
the cat doesn't have opposing thumbs, so his messages are illegible. Please
leave your name and message after the beep...
[pets/19]
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
-- Pyrrhus
[politics/62]
Never trust an operating system.
[computers/520]
Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with an international standard?
A: You get someone who makes you an offer that you can't understand!
[riddles/71]
Canada Bill Jones's Motto:
It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
Canada Bill Jones's Supplement:
A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
[definitions/158]
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband.
When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife.
-- Oscar Wilde
[men-women/516]
"If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little
Lavoris in the toilet."
-- Jay Leno
[pets/25]
Nobody ever died from oven crude poisoning.
[miscellaneous/395]
Why don't you ever enter any CONTESTS, Marvin?? Don't you know your
own ZIPCODE?
[zippy/500]
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
-- George Eliot
[people/28]
I can give you my word, but I know what it's worth and you don't.
-- Nero Wolfe, "Over My Dead Body"
[people/380]
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
-- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
[literature/53]
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
-- Yogi Berra in his rookie season.
[sports/16]
The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from
the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called
cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
-- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch"
[pratchett/1]
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree
that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
[medicine/65]
The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from
the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called
cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
-- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch"
[pratchett/1]
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a
fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
-- Montesquieu
[law/169]