The Frictionary # 211

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

2016. Humility is no substitute for a good personality. (Fran Lebowitz)

2017. Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken. (Harlan Coben)

2018. Women love men who don't need them. (Ronald Lavallée)

2019. People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. (Terry Pratchett)

2020. The beautiful is only the first degree of the terrible. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

2021. All of man's misfortune comes from hope. (Albert Camus)

2022. I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. (Wendy Liebman)

2023. Empty barrels are those that make the most noise. (Jewish proverb)

2024. No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway. (?)

2025. There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. (Viggo Mortensen)

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