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Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) by Linux fortune

C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.  C++ makes that
harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
                -- Bjarne Stroustrup
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
                -- O'Henry
Boucher's Observation:
        He who blows his own horn always plays the music
        several octaves higher than originally written.
The Illiterati Programus Canto 1:
        A program is a lot like a nose: Sometimes it runs, and
        sometimes it blows.
The eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day;
The eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away;
Do not think you can escape them
From night 'til early in the morn;
The eyes of Texas are upon you
'Til Gabriel blows his horn.
                -- University of Texas' school song
When I'm gone, boxing will be nothing again.  The fans with the cigars and
the hats turned down'll be there, but no more housewives and little men in
the street and foreign presidents.  It's goin' to be back to the fighter who
comes to town, smells a flower, visits a hospital, blows a horn and says
he's in shape.  Old hat.  I was the onliest boxer in history people asked
questions like a senator.
                -- Muhammad Ali
Is a person who blows up banks an econoclast?
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
                -- La Rochefoucauld
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