The Frictionary # 184

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1746. Foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs. (Mitch Hedberg)

1747. We are condemned to kill time: thus we die bit by bit. (Octavio Paz)

1748. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. (Basho)

1749. Arrogance is a form of ignorance. (Troy Johnson)

1750. Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. (Gilda Radner)

1751. Desire is not what you see but what you imagine. (Paulo Coelho)

1752. A truly lazy person is never bored. (?)

1753. Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. (Florence King)

1754. Equations are the devil's sentences. (Stephen Colbert)

1755. "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? (George Carlin*)
* George Carlin passed away on Sunday, June 22. At 71, he was still actively fighting hypocrisy and stupidity. He will be missed.

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The Frictionary # 183

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1736. Worry is a misuse of imagination. (Dan Zadra)

1737. The truth is out there but the lies are in your head. (Terry Pratchett)

1738. We only love the women we make happy. (Marcel Achard)

1739. Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old. (Icelandic proverb)

1740. An empty man is full of himself. (Edward Abbey)

1741. This sentence may be pregnant, it missed its period (Tom Robbins)

1742. All syllogisms have three parts; therefore, this is not a syllogism. (?)

1743. Aging is a non-curable disease. (Seneca)

1744. Love is shared whereas passion is lived alone. (Brigitte Rouan)

1745. All men are created equal. All women are created superior. (Cathy Guisewite)

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The Frictionary # 182

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1726. You can do anything, but not everything. (David Allen)

1727. It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. (Rollo May)

1728. Possession is a friendship between man and things. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

1729. My idea of a collective noun is a garbage can. (Jack McMahon)

1730. Who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn't got in the way. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

1731. A historian is often only a journalist facing backward. (Karl Kraus)

1732. If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? (?)

1733. Literature is always regional. Only the reader can be universal. (Nicolas Dickner)

1734. All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. (Federico Fellini)

1735. Excuse: substitute for reason. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 181

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1716. Age is a birth-defect. (Al Rosenthal)

1717. The plural of anecdotes is not data. (Randy Pausch)

1718. Duty is what no-one else will do at the monment. (Penelope Fitzgerald)

1719. Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of time. (Baltasar Gracian)

1720. In life, there are two things that cannot be half done: being born and dying. (Philippe Geluck)

1721. Today is the absolute day, the only day in the eternity of time. (?)

1722. Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. (Mitch Hedberg)

1723. Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. (Irene Peter)

1724. Why are there so many accidents on the road? It's because tomorrow's cars are driven by today's men on yestersay's roads. (Pierre-Jean Vaillard)

1725. You can't wake a person who is pretending to sleep. (Navajo proverb)

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The Frictionary # 180

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1706. If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once". (Sidney J. Harris)

1707. In time we hate that which we often fear. (William Shakespeare)

1708. If thirteen's unlucky, then 12 or 14 are guilty by association. (Mitch Hedberg)

1709. The future is what transcends the held out hand. (Louis Aragon)

1710. I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious. (George Carlin)

1711. It's better to have less and be more. (Germain Savard)

1712. Stop procrastinating - starting tomorrow. (?)

1713. The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poor. (Joan Collins)

1714. They say time travel is impossible, but kids do it anyway. (Réjean Lévesque)

1715. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. (Alfred Adler)

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