The Frictionary # 139

Here is another page from The Frictionary:

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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