The Frictionary #193

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1836. Apologies are like monsters: they're only real if you believe in them. (Justin Feinstein)

1837. A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. (Wilson Mizner)

1838. Television: the mirror of the mirror of society. (Gérard Brach)

1839. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

1840. Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. (Iris Murdoch)

1841. The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

1842. Pride is what is the most inflexible thing in this world. (Madame de Staël*)
* Also known as Germaine Staël-Holstein née Necker.

1843. Four food groups: Fast, Frozen, Instant, and Microwavable. (?)

1844. An onion a day gives your diet away. (Louis Safian)

1845. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein)

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The Frictionary # 192

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1826. What is entirely reliable unless it's dead? (Ursula K. Le Guin)

1827. Freedom is the right to complain about everything that is forbidden to do. (Noctuel*)
* Also known as Benjamin Subac.

1828. I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. (Paula Poundstone)

1829. Eternity is in love with the productions of time. (William Blake)

1830. Honor is like a match, you can only use it once. (Marcel Pagnol)

1831. Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. (Vaclav Havel)

1832. When you cannot enforce justice, you justify force. (Blaise Pascal)

1833. Space is limited
In a haiku, so it's hard
To finish what you (?)

1834. Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. (Edmund Burke)

1835. The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. (Henry Lewis Stimson)

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The Frictionary # 191

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1816. There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. (Alice Thomas Ellis)

1817. Dying seems such a natural thing when it happens to others. (Micheline Ouellette-Michalska)

1818. Pornography tells lies about women. But, pornography tells the truth about men. (John Stottenberg)

1819. All of life is a foreign country. (Jack Kerouac)

1820. If you are a pygmy, you can have a bonsai done as a family tree. (Pierre Légaré)

1821. Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer. (Rita Mae Brown)

1822. Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. (Bill Moyers)

1823. Metaphors be with you. (?)

1824. Life is not short. It will surely be the longest thing I have done. (Sylvie Laliberté)

1825. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. (Walter Lippmann)

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The Frictionary # 190

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1806. Anything that consoles is fake. (Iris Murdoch)

1807. The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. (Ogden Nash)

1808. Ignorance is not learned. (Gérard de Nerval)

1809. Women pretend not to...Men pretend to. (Réjean Lévesque)

1810. Talent is like electricity. We do not understand electricity. We use it. (Maya Angelou)

1811. Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? (Woody Allen)

1812. Veni, vidi, Vim. (I came, I saw, I cleaned). (?)

1813. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. (Edwin H. Land)

1814. To imagine is to raise reality's pitch one tone. (Gaston Bachelard)

1815. Truth is a dream unless my dream is true. (George Santayana)

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The Frictionary # 189

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1796. Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. (Jonathan Swift)

1797. Nostalgia: your memories that miss the past. (Tahar Ben Jelloun)

1798. Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. (Nick Diamos)

1799. To play is to dream with your whole body. (Georges Duhamel)

1800. According to a new survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. Women say the first thing they notice about men is that they are a bunch of liars. (Jay Leno)

1801. People (...), the veterans of childhood. (Bill Maher)

1802. The car is man's third testicle. (Rimdelaire)

1803. Friends are like butt cheeks. Crap might separate them, but they always come back together. (?)

1804. Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying it down. (Rabindranath Tagore)

1805. The path of civization is paved with tin cans. (Elbert Hubbard)

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