The Frictionary # 162

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1526. No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. (Thomas Fuller)

1527. "No comment" is a comment. (George Carlin)

1528. A recession is when you have to tighten your belt. A depression is when you have no belt. (Milton Berle)

1529. To be a poet
Is to make a window
When the wall has none. (Guénane Cade)

1530. Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism. (?)

1531. Life is a roller coaster, try to eat a light lunch. (David A. Schmaltz)

1532. Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. (Zig Ziglar)

1533. Wisdom comes too late in life to be useful. (Joel Stein)

1534. To every science its ignorance. We only measure our weakness by testing our strength. (Yves Thériault)

1535. If everybody hates you because you're paranoid, then you're not. (Pierre Légaré)

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The Frictionary # 161

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1516. Ignorance is perfectible. All you have to do is study. (Albert Brie)

1517. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. (George Carlin)

1518. A baby is the most complicated object made by unskilled labor. (?)

1519. Poverty should be listed as one of the side effects of most medications.* (Réjean Lévesque)
* Inspired by the BC cartoon of January 7, 2008. BC is now drawn by Mason Mastroianni, due to the passing of its creator, Johnny Hart. Hart was Mastroianni's grandfather.

1520. It is not the weathervane that turns, it's the wind. (Edgar Faure)

1521. Sleep is death without the consequence. (Diana Quinn)

1522. Knowing what thou knowest not
Is in a sense omniscience. (Piet Hein)

1523. The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. (James Baldwin)

1524. Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. (Thomas Fuller)

1525. Hate the sin and love the sinner. (Gandhi)

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The Frictionary # 160

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1506. Life is the childhood of our immortality. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

1507. Acting is pretending that you're not pretending when you're actually pretending. (Ted Danson)

1508. With the end of love appear the three Magi: melancholy, silence, and joy. (Christian Bobin)

1509. The advantage of meditation is that it brings respectability to idleness. (?)

1510. Nostalgia: when you find the present tense and the past perfect. (The Lion*)
* Should you know who The Lion is, please leave a comment.

1511. Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. (Edward Abbey)

1512. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. (Grace Hopper)

1513. You are the master of the unspoken word; once it is spoken, you are the slave. (Russian proverb)

1514. 'Twixt optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll;
The optimist sees the doughnut,
The pessimist the hole. (McLandburgh Wilson)

1515. To choose is to deprive yourself of the rest. (André Gide)

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The Frictionary # 159

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1496. The adverb always follows the verb. (William Safire)

1497. The average person thinks he isn't. (Larry Lorenzoni)

1498. The anvil fears no blows. (Rumanian proverb)

1499. The first cause of global warming is ECONOMIC GROWTH. (...):the unlimited expansion of production. Including the unlimited production of green products. (Pierre Foglia)

1500. When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything, he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. (Bob Edwards)

1501. It has always surprised me that none of the writers of the Bible ever went on to write anything else, considering the success of that book. (John Kenney)

1502. Ignorance, the seed of all flaws. (Walter Boudreau)

1503. I'm a renegade (...). I want to go against the grain. I hate grains. (Raf Katigbak)

1504. Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. (Colleen Wilcox)

1505. Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (Saint Augustine)

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