The Frictionary # 92

Here is another page from The Frictionary:

826. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. (E.B. White)

827. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. (H.L. Mencken)

828. People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. (David H. Comins)

829. What is amazing with idiots is that they're almost all above average. (Noctuel*)
* A French writer whose real name is Benjamin Subac.

830. Ignorance is not when you don't know something but when somebody notices it. (?)

831. Proudness and stupidity are made of the same wood. (German proverb)

832. The more you want to rise, the more you have to keep your feet on the ground. Every tree will tell you so. (Michel Tournier)

833. Never eat anything whose listed ingredients cover more than one-third of the package. (Joseph Leonard)

834. Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age. (L.J. Peter)

835. If called by a panther
Don't anther. (Ogden Nash)

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