The Frictionary # 123

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1136. The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. (Arthur C. Clarke)

1137. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. (Kurt Vonnegut)

1138. Love is a many splintered thing. (?)

1139. Don't postpone that visit to the wax museum, the planet is getting warmer. (Pierre Légaré)

1140. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. (W.C. Fields)

1141. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. (Stephen Hawking)

1142. The Bible has no author's name on its cover. We don't really know to whom they pay the rights. (Dany Laferrière)

1143. Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. (Bennett Cerf)

1144. There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. (Thomas Sowell)

1145. Longevity, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. (Ambrose Bierce)

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The Frictionary # 122

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1126. Deep down...life is a kind of time travel machine. (Philippe Geluck)

1127. Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. (Dutch proverb)

1128. Patience: inability to make decisions. (?)

1129. Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like life. (Paul Lutus)

1130. Happiness, like the sun, always throws a shadow. (Pierre Foglia)

1131. Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. (John Lahr)

1132. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. (Don Marquis)

1133. When you're in a hole, stop digging. (Denis Healey)

1134. There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. (Florynce Kennedy)

1135. Sometimes people ask me: 'Dave, what is the essence of parenthood?'. I always answer: ' Lowering your standards'. (Dave Barry)

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The Frictionary # 121

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1116. Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pains of stupidity. (Frank Leahy)

1117. If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them. (L.J. Peter)

1118. Alcohol preserves everything except secrets. (?)

1119. It has no sex, it has no age. It sometimes looks like a cat. It's the opposite of contempt. It's called tenderness. (Jacques Poulin)

1120. If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? (Milton Berle)

1121. He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage. (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

1122. What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (George Berkeley)

1123. Excuses are the poor man's judo. (Jean Yanne)

1124. Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. (Sigmund Freud)

1125. Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. (Kurt Vonnegut*)
* Kurt Vonnegut recently passed away. He will be missed.

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The Frictionary # 120

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1106. Not forgiving keeps you in prison, and not them. (...). Forgiveness (...) is only for you, to set you free. (Russell Friedman)

1107. Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible. (Reinhold Messner)

1108. Fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils. Texaco, Mobil, Exxon... (Rodney Dangerfield)

1109. Being drunk is feeling sophisticated when you can't say it. (?)

1110. Possession is only a futile attempt to attain permanence. (Réjean Lévesque)

1111. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. (Fernando Pessoa)

1112. God made the world just like it is
He made the fossils just to tease us. (Roy Zimmerman)

1113. Many a man gets to the top of the ladder, and then finds out it has been leaning against the wrong wall. (L.J. Peter)

1114. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. (W. Somerset Maugham)

1115. It is not the well that is too deep, it is the rope that is too short. (Chinese proverb)

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The Frictionary # 119

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1096. Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve toward a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being; to return to Eden, make friends with the snake, and set up our computers among the wild apple trees. (Tom Robbins)

1097. Eating an anchovy is like eating an eyebrow. (?)

1098. Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years. (L.J. Peter)

1099. A weapon of mass persuasion, the concept of God can easily and rapidly transform itself into a weapon of mass destruction. (Robert Jasmin)

1100. Love is about having, desire is about wanting. (Esther Perel)

1101. (Dogs) follow the dominant leader. We are the only species that follows an unstable leader. (Cesar Millan)

1102. In winter, the trees are made of wood. (Jules Renard)

1103. We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile. (Grace Williams)

1104. Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it. (Jeanne-Claude)

1105. You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. (Jeannette Rankin)

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