The Frictionary # 136

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1266. Women are like songs. If you don't know the right words, you'd better whistle. (Jean-François Mercier)

1267. The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. (David Richerby)

1268. Culture is like jam: the less you have, the more you have to spread it thin. (Françoise Sagan)

1269. All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. (C.S. Lewis)

1270. Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven deadly sins. (TZ @laffaday.com)

1271. A totalitarist regime is a regime where everything that is not forbidden is compulsory. (Curzio Malaparte)

1272. If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet. (Japanese proverb)

1273. Know thyself - but don't tell anyone. (H.F. Henrichs)

1274. The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor. (Sam Ewing)

1275. Happiness: yesterday without regrets and tomorrow without fear. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 135

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1256. Life will have been a lesson to me. I won't do it again. (Frédéric Dard)

1257. We don't choose our friends. Our friends do. (Jacques Delille)

1258. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. (Dawn French)

1259. To hesitate or not to hesitate, that is the question ... or maybe not. (?)

1260. A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. (Carl C. Van Doren)

1261. Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. (Howard Nemerov)

1262. Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. (Tobias Smollett)

1263. (T)he vice-president's* blood-type: B-extremely negative. (Jon Stewart)
* Referring to Dick Cheney.

1264. Love is eternal as long as it lasts. (Henri de Régnier)

1265. There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. (George Carlin)

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The Frictionary # 134

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1246. Hybrid cars are sterile. (Pierre Légaré)

1247. Everything has to come from somewhere. Even a creator. Even coincidence. (David Brin)

1248. Any man can prove he has good judgment by saying you have. (L.J. Peter)

1249. The only task you can start from the top is digging a hole. (?)

1250. The more we will love too much, the less it will be enough. (Julos Beaucarne)

1251. The moon, she is so stupid: it must be her ass that she is always showing us. (Samuel Beckett)

1252. A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.* (Thomas Robert Dewar)
* Keep in mind that Dewar was a renowned distiller of scotch whiskey.

1253. The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties. (Abraham Myerson)

1254. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit. (Aesop)

1255. All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. (Cathy Ladman)

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The Frictionary # 133

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1236. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (John Barrymore)

1237. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw)

1238. Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. (Alfred North Whitehead))

1239. I am neither for nor against. On the contrary. (Carlos Andres Perez)

1240. Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. (Mignon McLaughlin)

1241. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. (Charles M. Schulz)

1242. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. (Peter DeVries)

1243. What touches a mother's heart only reaches the father's knees. (Polish proverb)

1244. The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. (Don Herold)

1245. A poor idiot is an idiot, a rich idiot is a rich person. (Paul Lafitte)

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The Frictionary # 132

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1226. The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on a government contract. (Robert A. Heinlein)

1227. Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? (John Mendoza)

1228. It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. (Salman Rushdie)

1229. When storks have a baby, who delivers it? (?)

1230. Museum: big trashcan officially recognized. (Georges Henein)

1231. Love lives from starvation and dies from food. (Alfred de Musset)

1232. Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. (Quentin Crisp)

1233. That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye.". (Richard Armour)

1234. I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? (Tom Clancy)

1235. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. (Josh Billings)

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