The Frictionary # 158

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1486. The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. (Sandy Cooley)

1487. The best proof of love is trust. (Joyce Brothers)

1488. Living kills. (Hubert Aquin)

1489. Apathy is boring. (?)

1490. When a dog sees a car being towed, he thinks they're copulating. (Pierre Légaré)

1491. All ideas are already in the brain, just as all statues are in the marble. (Carlo Dossi)

1492. Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. (Marshall McLuhan)

1493. Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. (Robert Newton Anthony)

1494. A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist. (Humphrey Appleby)

1495. Old age is when you start saying, "I've never felt this young before.". (Jules Renard)

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The Frictionary # 157

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1476. Tinsel is really snake's mirrors. (Steven Wright)

1477. People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. (Ben Elton)

1478. I like to read like a hen drinks, raising my head up frequently, to let it go down. (Jules Renard)

1479. Women would be so nice if they weren't so absolutely bent on being happy. (Marcel Achard)

1480. If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name? (?)

1481. Adults don't believe in Santa. They vote. (Pierre Desproges)

1482. Forever is composed of nows. (Emily Dickinson)

1483. If you want to know how rich you are, just count up the things you have that money can't buy. (Daniel Webster)

1484. Getting caught is the mother of invention. (Robert Byrne)

1485. Graveyards are full of indispensable people. Yesterday, they buried the grave-digger. (Denis Langlois)

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The Frictionary # 156

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1466. Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope. (Austin O'Malley)

1467. I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. (Katherine Cebrian)

1468. Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. (Frank Herbert)

1469. The trouble with life is that there's no background music. (?)

1470. In a couple, at least one must be faithful, preferably the other. (Marcel Achard)

1471. Horse riding is the noblest expression of carnal association. (Jacques Ferron)

1472. The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. (Avicebron*)
Avicebron is also known as Solomon Ibn Gabirol.

1473. I'm addicted to placebos. I'd quit, but it wouldn't matter. (Steven Wright)

1474. The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. (Vladimir Nabokov)

1475. There is no such thing as intelligent happiness. (Jean Rostand)

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The Frictionary # 155

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1456. All Gods were immortal. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

1457. Hope is the memory of the future. (Gabriel Marcel)

1458. Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. (H.L. Mencken)

1459. Love is an electric blanket with someone else in control of the switch. (?)

1460. When time stops, it becomes a place. (Chawki Abdelamir)

1461. The average man is a little below average. (Henry Morgan)

1462. Vain ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind. (John Webster)

1463. Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. (Karl Kraus)

1464. Our conscience is the architect of our dream. (Victor Hugo)

1465. Brussel sprouts: fetal cabbage. (Polly Sherman)

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The Frictionary # 154

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1446. The consumer isn't a moron; she's your wife. (David Ogilvy)

1447. There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there. (Denny McDonough)

1448. Anxiety, finally, is nothing but a by-product of hope. (Hubert Aquin)

1449. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac at age 12, because at 13 it would no longer be a sacrifice. (?)

1450. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I can remember and remember more than I have seen. (Benjamin Disraeli)

1451. As soon as it is defined, that it is prescribed, good taste isn't good taste anymore. (Pierre Foglia)

1452. Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked. (Walter Savage Landor)

1453. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. (Lao Tzu)

1454. To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. (S. Tobin Webster)

1455. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. (G.K. Chesterton)

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