The Frictionary # 140

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1306. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film. (Steven Wright)

1307. The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. (Orlando A. Battista)

1308. There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. (Juan Montalvo)

1309. In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday. (?)

1310. You're closer to the heart when her chest is flat. (Louis Bouilhet)

1311. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. (Leo Rosten*)
* Very often misattributed to W.C. Fields.

1312. Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints its roof. (Chao Chang)

1313. A good husband is healthy and absent. (Japanese proverb)

1314. If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. (Sam Levenson)

1315. The heart is opened by being broken. (Sam Keen)

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The Frictionary # 139

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1296. When anyone says "theoretically", they really mean "not really". (David Parnas)

1297. I think, therefore I thwim. (?)

1298. Once you have given your opinion, it would stand to reason that you don't have it anymore. (Albert Brie)

1299. History: a distillation of rumor. (Thomas Carlyle)

1300. Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. (Bo Derek)

1301. Never read a pop-up book about giraffes. (Sean Lock)

1302. There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. (Arthur C. Clarke)

1303. If man was created before woman, it was to allow him to say a few words. (Jules Renard)

1304. Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe. (David Sarnoff)

1305. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? (George Deacon)

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The Frictionary # 138

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1286. Obesity is really widespread. (Joseph O. Kern II)

1287. Cheese: the adult form of milk. (Richard Condon)

1288. Magazine: bunch of printed pages that tell you what's coming in the next issue. (?)

1289. The mistake is not the opposite of the truth. It is forgetting the opposite truth. (Blaise Pascal)

1290. Life does not begin at conception, but when the kids leave home and the dog dies. (Russ James)

1291. Jesus was a bachelor. (Don Herold)

1292. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. (Michelangelo)

1293. If you want to save your soul, you have to lose it. (Bertrand B. Leblanc)

1294. If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. (Zimbabwean proverb)

1295. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. (Iris Murdoch)

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The Frictionary # 137

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1276. Yesterday is gone and it cannot come back, tomorrow is not here yet and it will never come because it is always now. You want to be happy, be happy now. (Tishan)

1277. I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one. (?)

1278. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. (Henny Youngman)

1279. Scientists say the earth's rotation is slowing down...probably due to the accumulation of National Geographic magazines in basements. (Réjean Lévesque)

1280. Freedom is indifference. (Louis Scutenaire)

1281. Lif is too short. (Bart Gold)

1282. The art of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. (Douglas Adams)

1283. A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend. (Robert J. Vogel)

1284. If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. (Kurt Vonnegut)

1285. There's no fool like an old fool - you can't beat experience. (Jacob Braude)

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