The Frictionary # 88

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786. Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. (Bertolt Brecht)

787. In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it. (Rex Reed)

788. Men are not worth much, and women are not cheap. (?)

789. Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. (Robert C. Gallagher)

790. Love is a serious mental disease. (Plato)

791. I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. (Charles Pierce)

792. Honor is like a scallop-shell; well scrubbed, it can be reused. (Frédéric Dard (as San Antonio))

793. Hospitals: castles in Pain. (Réjean Lévesque)

794. I adore oysters: it feels like kissing the sea on the mouth. (Léon-Paul Fargue)

795. I love mankind; it's the people I can't stand. (Charles M. Schultz)

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The Frictionary # 87

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776. How do you know but that every bird that cleaves the aerial way is not an immense world of delight closed to your senses five. (William Blake)

777. Groveling is good ... however, this position is uncomfortable if you want to kiss the hand of the one kicking you in the backside. (Erik Satie)

778. Some things have to be believed to be seen. (Ralph Hodgson)

779. In a mad world only the mad are sane. (Akira Kurosawa)

780. The dog has its smile in its tail. (Victor Hugo)

781. Integrity is like oxygen. The higher you climb, the less there is of it. (?)

782. I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. (Steven Wright)

783. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. (Richard Lewis)

784. Every word is a prejudice. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

785. I've been married so long I'm on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce. (Susan Vass)

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The Frictionary # 86

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766. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten dollar cut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. (Sam Ewing)

767. Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. (Stanislaw J. Lec)*
Voltaire said,"In an avalanche, no snowflake ever feels responsible."

768. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. (William Blake)

769. If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. (Kurt Lewin)

770. It would be racist to think that foreigners don't have the right to be stupid. (Coluche)

771. Next to the dog, the wastebasket is man's best friend. (?)

772. The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. (Paul Fix)

773. Congratulations to the new Miss Universe. It's Miss Puerto Rico. Is it me or does it seem like the winner is always from Earth? (Dave Letterman)

774. Love is blind...nobody ever said it was intelligent. (Jerry Scott)

775. Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. (Oscar Wilde)

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The Frictionary # 85

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756. They only loan to the rich. And rightly so: the poor find it difficult to pay back. (Tristan Bernard)

757. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? (?)

758. Love is never security. Love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

759. The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

760. Anti-theft alarm: a device that loudly tells the whole world that you have just been robbed. (Réjean Lévesque)

761. If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else. (L.J. Peter)*
*Also attributed to Alfred Adler and David Campbell)

762. The future isn't what it used to be. (Paul Valéry)

763. A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. (Samuel Johnson)

764. Sin is geographical. (Bertrand Russell)

765. Painting, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. (Ambrose Bierce)

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