The Frictionary # 297

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2886. Maturity is being comfortable with your occasional moments of immaturity. (Mardy Grothe)

2887. The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. (Benjamin Franklin)

2888. Courage is measured against the fear it surmounts. (Jacques Ferron)

2889. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. (Steven Wright)

2890. Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. (Tom Lehrer)

2891. If Facebook was a country, it would be the third-largest country on earth*...and by far the least productive. (Jimmy Kimmel)
*Half a billion members (August 2010).

2892. Today is the pupil of yesterday. (Publilius Syrus)

2893 The same ad - often shoddy - plays twice in a row and the same ad - often shoddy - plays twice in a row. See how irritating it is? See how irritating it is? (Hugo Dumas)

2894. Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others. (?)

2895. Inspiration is good, but you also need expiration. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 296

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2876. Lying is just another form of acting. (Ellen Degeneres)

2877. I never forgive, but I always forget. (Arthur James Balfour)

2878. Men are born free and legally equal. But, then, afterward, some get married. (Marcel Jouhandeau)

2879. Bad politicians are sent to Washington* by good people who don't vote. (William E. Simon)
* You can replace Washington with the democratically run capital of your choice.

2880. Geography is the why of where. (Paul Blank)

2881. America is the only country in the world where people are allowed more than one adolescence. (Millard Kaufman)

2882. Playpens, [...] brightly colored, miniature jails. (Paul Reiser)

2883. Silence is made of words we have not said. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

2884. Matter + Antimatter = Probably doesn't matter. (Dave Whamond "Reality Check")

2885. There is only one you...Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered. (Charles Swindoll)

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The Frictionary # 295

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2866. If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion. (Kedar Joshi)

2867. A cause a day keeps reality away. (Jim Fraser)

2868. Conscience is useless, like the appendix, it only makes man sick. (Albert Brie)

2869. The last camel of the caravan has the same pace as the first. (African proverb)

2870. Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. (Erica Jong)

2871. Talking is the most human thing we can do. (Greg Bear)

2872. We learn when young and we understand as we get older. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

2873. I don't want a woman with good taste - I want a woman who tastes good. (Alan P. Scott)

2874. Blasphemy is a victimless crime. (?)

2875. Reality is frequently inaccurate. (Douglas Adams)

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The Frictionary # 294

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2856. Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. (Doug Horton)

2857. Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. (Al Bundy)

2858. Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

2859. At times I think and at times I am. (Paul Valéry)

2860. I'm sick of following my dreams, I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later. (Mitch Hedberg)

2861. Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. (Fernando Sabino)

2862. The present is where an infinite array of possible futures collapse into one. (Richard Eskow)

2863. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. (Zig Ziglar)

2864. Who says nothing is impossible. I've been doing it for years. (?)

2865. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. (Chinese proverb)

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The Frictionary # 293

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2846. To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania. (Joseph Prescott)

2847. I am a daylight atheist. (Brendan F. Behan)

2848. God never built a church. (Alan P. Scott)

2849. Advice worth gold rarely yield money. (Jacques Sternberg)

2850. Some people have mental blocks, I have entire neighborhoods. (Tim Lane)

2851. Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. (Thomas Fuller)

2852. In the kingdom of the one-eyed, seeing dogs are half-price. (François Parenteau)

2853. When did I realize I was God? I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. (Peter O'Toole)

2854. Procreation doesn't harm the environment; Man is biodegradable. (?)

2855. Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. (Eric Sevareid)

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The Frictionary # 292

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2836. We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. (Buzzy Bavasi)

2837. The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts. (Kedar Joshi)

2838. The only unforgivable sin is the sin of boredom. (Réjean Lévesque)

2839. When turkeys mate they think of swans. (Johnny Carson)

2840. Charles Darwin was not originally an evolutionist, he just gradually became one. (Irwin Barker)

2841. Life can't be counted in breaths but in moments that took your breath away. (Nancy Mawn)

2842. Dogs have owners. Cats have staff. (Dave Barry)

2843. Language is the DNA of every culture. (Gilles Vigneault)

2844. Don't take yourself too seriously, nobody else does. (?)

2845. Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it. (Mark Twain)

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The Frictionary # 291

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2826. Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

2827. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! (Marvin Phillips)

2828. Egotist: a man who doesn't think of me. (Eugène Labiche)

2829. Dreams are to achievement what architecture is to construction. (Mardy Grothe)

2830. What is a "blog"? An Internet destination that can be set up in a minute and largely ignored for years at a time. (Chris Pirillo)

2831. The universe is a useless dictionary for someone who does not provide his own grammar. (Nicolas Gomez Davila)

2832. As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. (Norman Wisdom)

2833. A couple is a compromise. (Guy A. Lepage)

2834. Men are like bank accounts; if they have no money they don't generate interest. (?)

2835. Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything. (Frank Yerby)

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