Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. [If youth but knew, if old age but could.] -- Henri Estienne | |
"Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time." -- a coffee cup | |
If a system is administered wisely, its users will be content. They enjoy hacking their code and don't waste time implementing labor-saving shell scripts. Since they dearly love their accounts, they aren't interested in other machines. There may be telnet, rlogin, and ftp, but these don't access any hosts. There may be an arsenal of cracks and malware, but nobody ever uses them. People enjoy reading their mail, take pleasure in being with their newsgroups, spend weekends working at their terminals, delight in the doings at the site. And even though the next system is so close that users can hear its key clicks and biff beeps, they are content to die of old age without ever having gone to see it. | |
"I may appear to be just sitting here like a bucket of tapioca, but don't let appearances fool you. I'm approaching old age ... at the speed of light." -- Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk | |
Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill. | |
Old age is always fifteen years old than I am. -- B. Baruch | |
Old age is the harbor of all ills. -- Bion | |
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. -- Trotsky | |
Old age is too high a price to pay for maturity. | |
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. -- Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby" |