The Frictionary # 127

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1176. You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. (Sam Levenson)

1177. The problem with couch potatoes is that you can't even kick their butts. (François Avard)

1178. Whoever named it 'necking' is a poor judge of anatomy. (Groucho Marx)

1179. Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark. (?)

1180. America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. (John Updike)

1181. Assumptions are the termites of relationships. (Henry Winkler)

1182. Suffering does not kill, it is despair that destroys man. (African proverb)

1183. Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. (William Blake)

1184. Style is like fingernails: more easily shiny than neat. (Eugenio d'Ors)

1185. The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. (Rita Mae Brown)

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The Frictionary # 126

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1166. Education teaches us the rules of life. Experience teaches us the exceptions. (Mina Guillois)

1167. When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it. (?)

1168. You don't pay taxes. They take taxes. (Chris Rock)

1169. Flaws are like car headlights: only those of others blind us. (Maurice Druon)

1170. Blame is for God and small children. (Dustin Hoffman)

1171. I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

1172. Never take your kids to a 'petting zoo' where the attendant only has one arm. (Johnny Hart)

1173. Lottery, n. A tax on people who are bad at math. (Ambrose Bierce)

1174. Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse. (P.G. Wodehouse)

1175. Love is like a pineapple
Sweet and indefinable. (Piet Hein)

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The Frictionary # 125

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1156. As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. (Charles Morgan)

1157. When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. (Desmond Tutu)

1158. The worst thing about censorship is: (?)

1159. Some people will believe anything if you will whisper it to them. (Louis Nizer)

1160. We dance around in a ring and suppose
While the secret sits in the middle and knows. (Robert Frost)

1161. Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. (Monica Piper)

1162. An egg today is better than a chicken tomorrow. (Vietnamese proverb)

1163. 'Diaper' backward spells 'repaid'. Think about it. (Marshall McLuhan)

1164. Do not ask what your government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. (Gerhard Kocher)

1165. Life is too short to be little. (Benjamin Disraeli)

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The Frictionary # 124

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1146. I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsability on the West Coast. (Viktor E. Frankl)

1147. The meaning of life is that it stops. (Franz Kafka)

1148. Men are born equal, the day after they aren't anymore. (Jules Renard)

1149. A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a swimming pool. (?)

1150. Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray? (Charles Moore)

1151. Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. (Bill Maher)

1152. First ask where the people are, then ask for the road. (Chinese proverb)

1153. It is true that everything has all been said, but seeing nobody was listening we'll have to repeat. (André Gide)

1154. Capital punishment: the income tax. (Jeff Hayes)

1155. The goal in life is to die young - as late as possible. (Ashley Montagu)

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