The Frictionary # 145

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1356. Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. (Charles Richards)

1357. The fundamentalist mind is like concrete: all mixed up and permanently set. (?)

1358. Can you cure the fear of needles with acupuncture? (Pierre Légaré)

1359. A heart is only a timer. (Carlos Gavito)

1360. People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. (Joan Rivers)

1361. Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. (Roy Adzak)

1362. When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby. (Jewish proverb)

1363. You must have a lot of patience to learn to be patient. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

1364. (P)aperclips are the larval stage of wire coat hangers. (Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman)

1365. He who stops being better stops being good. (Oliver Cromwell)

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The Frictionary # 144

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1346. The simplest toy, one which the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. (Sam Levenson)

1347. Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. (Rita Rudner)

1348. Consultant: someone who borrows your watch, tells you the time, and charges you for doing it. (?)

1349. Loneliness in poetry is not the loneliness of an island, but the loneliness of the sea. (Bergamin)

1350. Translations are like women. When they are beautiful, they are not faithful and, when they are faithful, they are not beautiful. (Tahar Ben Jelloun)

1351. The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. (Bette Midler)

1352. Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it. (Karol Newlin)

1353. I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specific. (Steven Wright)

1354. All movements go too far. (Bertrand Russell)

1355. It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. (Dale Dauten)

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The Frictionary # 143

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1336. Ignorance is not innocence but sin. (Robert Browning)

1337. Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. (Paula Poundstone)

1338. Recession is when a lot of people lose their jobs. Depression is when you lose yours. (?)

1339. Ugliness is superior to beauty, it lasts. (Serge Gainsbourg)

1340. Only the shoe knows if the sock has holes. (Creole proverb)

1341. He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

1342. Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. (Charles M. Schulz)

1343. If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. (Albert Einstein)

1344. If you close your door to every mistake, truth will be left outside. (Rabindranath Tagore)

1345. I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. (Mae West)

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The Frictionary # 142

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1326. Fiction is the truth inside the lie. (Stephen King)

1327. The ancients (...) always foresaw the worst, that's why they were always right. (Roch Carrier)

1328. I searched for the bluebird of happiness, but all I found was the chicken of despair. (?)

1329. Most cartoon characters do not have nostrils. It's all right; they generally have just four fingers. (Pierre Légaré)

1330. Sports is the toy department of human life. (Howard Cosell)

1331. The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing. (Natalie Kocsis)

1332. If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle. (Jack Adams)

1333. Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. (David Searls)

1334. Laughter is a charity. (Doris Lussier)

1335. A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in history, with the possible exceptions of hand guns and tequila. (Mitch Ratcliffe)

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The Frictionary # 141

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1316. Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. (William M. Winans)

1317. (T)he shortest book in the NT, namely "The Corinthians Reply to St Paul". It goes like this: 1.Dear Paul of Tarsus. 2. Please remove us from your mailing list. 3. The Corinthians. (Chris Brown)

1318. If necessity is the mother of invention, who's the father? - Starvation. (Johnny Hart)

1319. The meek shall inherit the earth - they are too weak to refuse. (?)

1320. Being good to a fellow human is treating him like a dog. (Alain)

1321. The heart does not grow old, but it is hard for a god to live in ruins. (Voltaire)

1322. The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. (Andy Rooney)

1323. Arguments with furniture are rarely productive. (Kehlog Albran)

1324. The smaller the head, the bigger the dream. (Austin O'Malley)

1325. It is not doubt, it is certainty that drives you mad. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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