The Frictionary # 118

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1086. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanatism. (Carl Sagan)

1087. (T)he meaning of life? (...) : parole is out of the question. (Johnny Hart)

1088. Happiness is sorrow resting. (Léo Ferré)

1089. Experience is a comb nature gives us when we are bald. (Judith Stern*)
* This quotation is sometimes given as a Belgian proverb.

1090. 'Z' is just an 'S' with a stick up its butt. (Tom Robbins)

1091. Gravity isn't easy, but it's the law. (?)

1092. The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres
Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers. (Keith Preston)

1093. Indifference is a dish best served cold but eaten by many at the same time. (Nathalie Petrowski)

1094. Saying "time heals all" is like expecting time to fill a flat tire with air. (Réjean Lévesque*)
* Paraphrasing Russell Friedman and John W. James.

1095. Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong, and disposable. (Cher)

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The Frictionary # 117

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1076. Between sarcasm and irony lies the same distance as between a belch and a sigh. (Hugo Pratt)

1077. Nothing whatsoever happened in the world today, everybody was watching television. (Jim Davis)*
* "Garfield".

1078. If you took all the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end, they would be more comfortable. (?)

1079. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. (Frédéric Bastiat)

1080. Where there is doubt, there is freedom. (Latin proverb)

1081. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. (George Carlin)

1082. In order to be yourself you first have to be somebody. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

1083. Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. (Zig Ziglar)

1084. History is a vast early warning system. (Norman Cousins)

1085. Truth is only what you choose to remember. (Pat Conroy)

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The Frictionary # 116

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1066. Nothing can be anything but it doesn't make it nothing just the same. (Alain Robbe-Grillet)

1067. Modernity: missiles are teleguided and idiots televised. (Réjean Lévesque)

1068. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. (Roger Miller)

1069. Fanatic: hero who, for the triumph of his prejudices, is ready to sacrifice your life. (Albert Brie)

1070. Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get close to them. (?)

1071. (I)sn't plagiarism just the purest form of quotation. (Louis Menand)

1072. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. (E.M. Forster)

1073. If there were no God, there would be no atheists. (G.K. Chesterton)

1074. I have much respect for the past because, some time ago, it was the future. (Louis Bournival)

1075. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. (Osho Rajneesh)

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The Frictionary # 115

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1056. For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat. (Jonathan Carroll)

1057. Commit suicide! Why, we spend our lives doing it. (Louis Scutenaire)

1058. Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. (John Updike)

1059. Men wake up as good-looking as when they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. (?)

1060. The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. (Jane Wagner)

1061. Once I was a credit to my credit card. (Peter Gabriel)

1062. Never buy a bottle of wine that has a "sell by ..." date on it. (Johnny Hart)

1063. Why pay a dollar* for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark. (Fred Stoller)
* This won't do in Canada. The dollar is a coin (the loonie).

1064. Bed is the poor man's opera. (Italian proverb)

1065. Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers. (Abbie Hoffman)

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