Fortune displays a random text string from a set of files in a certain format.
This occurs each time you start a login shell. To get this feature just uncomment the respective lines in the user's .profile.
Together with a lot of funny sayings fortune also contains some sayings which may not be fully "politically correct". These sayings are nevertheless contains as S.u.S.E. Linux-Developers do not want to apply any censorship to fortune. Please note that not all users may appreciate all fortune sayings. Please do not install fortune in this case.