The Frictionary # 206

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1966. Respect is love in plain clothes. (Frankie Byrne)

1967. The last will be first...forgotten. (Stéphane Laporte)

1968. There are women who we listen to with only one eye. (Gilbert Cesbron)

1969. Journalism is publishing what someone doesn't want us to know, the rest is propaganda. (Horacio Verbitsky)

1970. Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. (Nancy Banks Smith)

1971. Growing old is knowing how to lose. (Georges Wolinski)

1972. Actors are dumb for a reason. They don't think, they just be. (Max Mutchnick)

1973. Is there anything more disgusting than a snake with diarrhea. (?)

1974. Patience is the wisdom of those who have the time for it. (Bertrand Vac)

1975. The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. (Pearl Bailey)

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The Frictionary # 205

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1956. Ignorance is very important! It is an absolutely essential step in the learning process. (Terry Pratchett)

1957. Experience does not prevent us from making a blunder, only from making it cheerfully. (Francis de Croisset)

1958. Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. (Fulton J. Sheen)

1959. A good meal always starts with hunger. (Louis-Auguste Commerson)

1960. The man who knows will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

1961. If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet? (Cynthia Heimel)

1962. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)

1963. The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion. The tunnel is. (?)

1964. Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. (Aphra Behn)

1965. If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. (Robin Williams)

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The Frictionary # 204

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1946. It's not voting that's democracy, it's the counting. (Tom Stoppard)

1947. In the past, songs were sung. Today, we listen to them. (Fred Pellerin)

1948. To have principles, first have courage. (Chinese proverb)

1949. There are two different kinds of people in this world: those who finish what they start, and (Brad Ramsey)

1950. Science, after all, is nothing but experience. (Marun Abbud)

1951. The dice of God are always loaded. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

1952. The only gift is giving to the poor
All else is exchange. (Thiruvalluvar)

1953. "Heck" is for people who don't believe in "gosh". (?)

1954. Advice is like laxatives, easy to give and take, but it's difficult to predict how it will come out in the end. (Réjean Lévesque)

1955. It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. (Lawrence Durrell)

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The Frictionary # 203

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1936. Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. (Walter Savage Landor)

1937. All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. (Michael Carr)

1938. For most women, to love a man is to be unfaithful to another. (Étienne Rey)

1939. Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. (John Quinton)

1940. Beauty cannot be decreed. Nor is it contagious. (Pierre Foglia)

1941. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. (Oscar Wilde)

1942. To what can our life on earth be likened?
To a flock of geese
Alighting on the snow
Sometimes leaving a trace of their passage. (Su DongPo*)
* Also known as Su Shi.

1943. We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that it's not true. (Robert Wilensky)

1944. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. (?)

1945. It is harder to give back than not receive. (Paul Léautaud)

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The Frictionary # 202

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1926. The older you get, the harder it is to feel younger. (Vijay Singh)

1927. Wonderful invention, tomorrow. (Kenneth Viste)

1928. States fund their schools, which among other things are meant to turn children into responsible adults, by selling lottery tickets. (Nancy Gibbs)

1929. Innocence has never made anybody lucid. (Pierre Foglia)

1930. Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man. (Swami Vivekananda)

1931. Fears are nothing more than states of mind. (Napoleon Hill)

1932. I lost my memory and I can't even remember where. (Germain Savard)

1933. My inner romantic [is] usually tied up and gagged by my inner cynic. (Laura Roberts)

1934. The organization of a bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank - the really big chunks always rise to the top. [Imhoff's Law] (?)

1935. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (Steven Wright)

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