From ee1134da9d2bc1357000cbb3206876826cc4afc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Gras Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:29:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fortune: install fortune.dat in /usr/lib --- commands/fortune/Makefile | 2 + commands/fortune/fortune.dat | 167 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+) create mode 100755 commands/fortune/fortune.dat diff --git a/commands/fortune/Makefile b/commands/fortune/Makefile index d05678ca4..1fcd1980f 100644 --- a/commands/fortune/Makefile +++ b/commands/fortune/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ PROG= fortune MAN= +FILESDIR= /usr/lib +FILES= fortune.dat .include diff --git a/commands/fortune/fortune.dat b/commands/fortune/fortune.dat new file mode 100755 index 000000000..b5eefc680 --- /dev/null +++ b/commands/fortune/fortune.dat @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. + - B. L. Taylor +%% +Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly? + - Dickens +%% +Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand +can turn out a good article on it. + - M. Twain +%% +A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. + - S. Goldwyn +%% +"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. + - M. Twain +%% +Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. + - Benjamin Franklin +%% +Everything is funny as long as it is happening +to someone else. + - Will Rogers +%% +I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. + - Groucho Marx +%% +One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie +is that a cat has only nine lives. + - M. Twain +%% +Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? +It is because we are not the person involved. + - M. Twain +%% +When angry, count four; +when very angry, swear. + - M. Twain +%% +A perfect vacuum exists only in the minds of men. + - P. H. Beck +%% +Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another. + - Confucian Analects Bk. 15:39 +%% +Learning without thought is labor lost; +thought without learning is perilous. + - Confucian Analects Bk. 2:15 +%% +The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull. + - Gennerat's Law +%% +Our universe is simply one of those things that happen from time to time. + - Edward Tryon +%% +When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, +however improbable, must be the truth. + - Sherlock Holmes +%% +admiration, n. +Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. + - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" +%% +bore, n. +A person who talks when you wish him to listen. + - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" +%% +coward, n. +One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. + - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" +%% +What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. +%% +Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. + - Simeon Strunsky +%% +To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. + - Confucian Analects, Bk. 11:15,iii +%% +He who speaks without modesty will find +it difficult to make his words good. + - Confucian Analects, Bk. 14:21 +%% +Heaven and earth are not humane. +They regard all things as straw dogs. + - Lao Tzu +%% +He who knows others is wise. +He who knows himself is enlightened. + - Lao Tzu +%% +He who knows does not speak. +He who speaks does not know. + - Lao Tzu +%% +To know that you do not know is the best. +To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. + - Lao Tzu +%% +Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. + - Theophrastus +%% +You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. + - Publilius Syrus +%% +If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. + - Sir Isaac Newton +%% +The probability of someone watching you is +proportional to the stupidity of your action. + - A. Kindsvater +%% +The various forms of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, +were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, +as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. + - Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" +%% +Of course you realize this means war! + - Bugs Bunny +%% +The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; +and the pessimist fears this is true. + - James Branch Cabell +%% +Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. + - From the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" by Robert Heinlein +%% +Only a mediocre person is always at his best. + - W. Somerset Maugham +%% +Life is a continuing series of multiple-choice questions, with the answers +torn out of the back of the book. + - Sydney J. Harris +%% +There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what +the Universe is for and why it is here. it will instantly disappear and +be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. + +There is another theory which states that this has already happened. + - Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the end of the Universe" +%% +The following sentence is false. +The preceding sentence is true. +%% +A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a +summer insect conceive of ice. How can a scholar +understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own +learning. + - Chung-tse +%% +panic: can't spare any memory for you today. +%% +!XINIM ni deppart m'I !pleH +%% +panic: page segment violation +%% +panic: not enough memory (hey, I've got some very cheap 41256's for you) +%% +Heaven wheels above you +Displaying to you eternal glories +And still your eyes are on the ground. + - Dante +%% +When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity of things is +produced, but when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity +of things disappears. + - Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith. +%% -- 2.44.0