The Frictionary # 438

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4296. Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (William Allen White)

4297. The more you know, the more there is just beyond, and it keeps on coming. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

4298. Man is born good.  It starts to degrade between 6 and 7 months. (Georges Perros)

4299. Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. (Kahlil Gibran)

4300. To make time go by at a rythm that suits you and to make it more exciting, trade your hourglass for a pepper mill. (Grégoire Lacroix)

4301. Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. (Israel Zangwill)

4302. Sometimes, the first step to forgiveness is understanding that the other person is a complete idiot. (funnyoneliners)

4303. I often think about nothing, which is better than not thinking at all. (Raymond Queneau)

4304. Worry is the darkroom in which "negatives" are developed. (?)

4305. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

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The Frictionary # 437

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4286. Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. (Oscar Wilde)

4287. The signs of Spring!  The birds singing.  The trees budding (...). Taking down our Christmas lights. (Glen McCoy "The Duplex")

4288. Experience teaches us that it is much easier to take hostages than it is to release them. (André Frossard)

4289. Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. (Al McGuire)

4290. "Charity begins at home" - along with beating, Homeland Security and obesity. (Tropicbob at "Quote/Counterquote*")
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4291. Individually, we are one drop.  Together, we are an ocean. (Ryunosuke Satoro)

4292. Antipathy is like love: it implies a certain reciprocity. (Frédéric Dard)

4293. The true poem is in the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship builder. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

4294. Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. (?)

4295. Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. (Mignon McLaughlin)

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The Frictionary # 436

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4276. Among politicians and businessmen, pragmatism is the current term for "to hell with our children". (Edward Abbey)

4277. Clocks do not make time
they only impose an illusion of order
on an essential chaos. (Positively Wyrde)

4278. By being always just, we often end up guilty. (Pierre Corneille)

4279. Doubt is the father of invention. (Galileo Galilei)

4280. I think Victoria's secret is: She's a he. (Wendy Liebman)

4281. Only the present is true, but it's already past. (Yves Floranne)

4282. I always thought by 2013 we would have flying cars.  Instead we have blankets with sleeves. (funnyoneliners)

4283. When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands. (H.L. Mencken)

4284. We must never forget that marriage was instituted in an era when life expectancy was less than forty. (?)

4285. Art like life should be free, since both are experimental. (George Santayana)

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The Frictionary # 435

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4266. Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. (Charles Caleb Colton)

4267. Are you wishy-washy?  Maybe yes, it depends  More or less  Yes and no  All of the above...but again maybe not. (Dave Whamond "Reality Check")

4268. Poetry is indispensable - if only I knew what for. (Jean Cocteau)

4269. We come spinning out of nothingness
Scattering stars like dust.  The stars form a circle
And in the center we dance.  (Rumi)

4270. To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. (Doug Larson)

4271. I dream, therefore I exist. (August Strindberg)

4272. Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. (Ninon de Lenclos)

4273. Of course we gays dress well.  We don't spend all that time in the closet doing nothing. (Simon Chilvers)

4274. We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (François de La Rochefoucaud)

4275. Where facts are few, experts are many. (Donald R. Gannon)

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The Frictionary # 434

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4256. Share your knowledge.  It's a way to achieve immortality. (Tenzin Gyatso - The Dalai Lama)

4257. Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. (Shelby Friedman)

4258. The only weapon I find interesting is the corkscrew. (Jean Carnet)

4259. The main ingredient in hand sanitizer...paranoia. (Newfylover1)

4260. Ceasefire
both sides pray
while they reload.  (Coyote Sings)

4261. Facts do not penetrate the world where our beliefs live. (Marcel Proust)

4262. Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. (Kin Hubbard)

4263. Strong people have strong weaknesses. (Peter Drucker)

4264. Death is the only exam that can't be flunked. (?)

4265. The past, the future, two halves of life where one says 'never' and the other says 'always'. (Alphonse de Lamartine)

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The Frictionary # 433

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4246. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care. (Kurtis Lavoie)

4247. Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. (Lane Olinghouse)

4248. If we'd factor in the services rendered to science, the frog would take first place. (Claude Bernard)

4249. Invitation is the sincerest flattery. (Carolyn Wells)

4250. A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music. (Ramon Gomez de la Serna)

4251. Semicolons: they are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing.  All they do is show you've been to college. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

4252. Street whispers, the wall listens. (madeleinebleue)

4253. If he swallows his pride, he'll surely get indigestion. (Réjean Lévesque)

4254. Capitalism without bankruptcy is like christianism without hell. (Frank Borman)

4255. Happiness held is the seed - Happiness shared is the flower. (John Harrigan)

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The Frictionary # 432

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4236. Round numbers are always false. (Samuel Johnson)

4237. Fear is the brother of hate. (Larry Niven)

4238. It's been said that fear is the brother of hate, the mother of morality, the parent of cruelty.  Fear is very incestuous. (Réjean Lévesque)

4239. Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. (Jason Love)

4240. Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. (Rabindranath Tagore)

4241. Every exit is an entry somewhere else. (Tom Stoppard)

4242. Can you name a movie that was made into a book? (Pierre Foglia)

4243. I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know. (James Brown)

4244. A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. (?)

4245. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. (Miguel de Unamuno)

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