The Frictionary # 188

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1786. Roads endure longer than pyramids. (Karol Bunsch)

1787. A waffle is like a pancake with syrup trap. (Mitch Hedberg)

1788. Success is never final, but failure can be. (Bill Parcels)

1789. The first who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second was an imbecile. (Gérard de Nerval)

1790. Everything happens for a reason; if you can't find a reason for something, there's a reason for that. (Chris Levi)

1791. Art's best friend: the auctioneer. (Réjean Lévesque)

1792. The human body, if properly cared for, can last a lifetime. (?)

1793. Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

1794. A cucumber should be well sliced and dressed with pepper and vinegar and then thrown out. (Samuel Johnson)

1795. We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. (Aldous Huxley)

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The Frictionary # 187

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1776. Life is a rainbow which also includes black. (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

1777. Love is when two people who care for each other get confused. (Bob Schneider)

1778. When time stops, it becomes old...but not us. (Réjean Lévesque)

1779. Nature, it seems, is the popular name
For milliards and milliards and milliards
Of particles playing their infinite game
Of billiards and billiards and billiards. (Piet Hein)

1780. No man is free who cannot control himself. (Pythagoras)

1781. If you are living out of a sense of obligation, you are slave. (Wayne Dyer)

1782. Prehistory: what the mother dinosaur was telling her children. (?)

1783. Water is the wine of architecture. (Ada louise Huxtable)

1784. Do not wear earmuffs in the land of the rattlesnake. (N.J. Rock)

1785. If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. (The Talmud)

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The Frictionary # 186

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1766. I think; therefore, I'm single. (Lizz Winstead)

1767. All knowledge is ambiguous. (J.S. Habgood)

1768. An apple a day keeps the doctor away...so does a gun. (Alexandre Barrette)

1769. You can only complain satisfactorily to people you know really well. (Ursula LeGuin)

1770. In politics, there are no traitors, only losers. (André Thérive)

1771. Anger cannot be dishonest. (George R. Gardner)

1772. You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. (Chinese proverb)

1773. The difference between love and friendship? Night and day. (?)

1774. How come when it's us it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken it's an omelet? (George Carlin)

1775. Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. (M.C. Escher)

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The Frictionary # 185

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1756. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. (Carolyn Wells)

1757. There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. (Eric Hoffer)

1758. A Christian is a bad pagan, converted by a bad Jew. (Simone Weil)

1759. Living is a thing you do now or never - Which do you? (Piet Hein)

1760. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. (Albert Einstein)

1761. The difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. (Pete Seeger)

1762. Kids used to ask you where they came from, now they tell you where to go. (?)

1763. You can hurt someone's pride; you can never kill it. (Henri de Montherlant)

1764. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. (Henry David Thoreau)

1765. The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson)

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