The Frictionary # 223

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2136. I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

2137. Doing nothing, that can be said. It can't be done. (Raymond Devos)

2138. No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. (Elizabeth Bowen)

2139. What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. (Gene Fowler)

2140. Eternal life (...) makes old age more acceptable. (Quentin Crisp)

2141. You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you. (Vicki Baum)

2142. An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur. (S.A. Sachs)

2143. The future is the past in preparation. (Pierre Dac)

2144. The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much. (?)

2145. Less knowledge, more convictions. (Boris Cyrulnik)

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The Frictionary # 222

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2126. It is easier to believe than to doubt. (Gene Fowler)

2127. Always pursue the truth, but never catch it. (Mardy Grothe)

2128. In the face of aging, we are all exiled. (Dominique Blondeau)

2129. The Non-Conformist's Oath: "I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things that other people say." (Steve Martin)

2130. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. (L.J. Peter)*
*Also attributed to Kathleen Norris.

2131. We don't like the unknown; that is one reason we invent religion and grammarians. (Robin Fox)

2132. Marriage is like dust, it accumulates every day. (Nicole Dero)

2133. Freedom is not a right, it's a duty. (Nicolas Berdiaev)

2134. Give a man an inch, and he thinks he's a ruler. (?)

2135. Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little bit better. (Edgar Watson Howe)

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The Frictionary # 221

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2116. Troubles are like babies; they only grow by nursing. (Jerrold Douglas)

2117. It is a beautiful religion that makes man as sacred as the cow. (Pierre Foglia)

2118. To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania. (Joseph Prescott)

2119. Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. (Mason Cooley)

2120. The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

2121. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. (H.L. Mencken)

2122. Without geology, geography would have no place to put itself. (Art Linkletter)

2123. Veni, vidi, visa (We came, we saw, we went shopping). (Jan Barrett)

2124. Authority is like a bank account. The more you draw on it, the less you have. (?)

2125. History teaches how to falsify history. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

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The Frictionary # 220

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2106. Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. (Ben Hecht)

2107. There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. (Bill Watterson)

2108. When you've got character, it's always bad. (Georges Clémenceau)

2109. The magic of technology is spreading. (...) With just a few clicks of a mouse, someone in one corner of the world can make contact with a fellow human being thousands of miles away and offer to sell her cheap Viagra. (Anu Garg)

2110. An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away. (P.G. Wodehouse)

2111. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. (Ayn Rand)

2112. One of the meanings of the Swiss flag is: the blood of others, we put a cross on it. (Jean-Luc Godard)

2113. Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. (?)

2114. When I eventually met Mr. Right, I had no idea that his first name was Always. (Rita Rudner)

2115. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. (Chuang Tzu - aka Zhuang Zi)

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The Frictionary # 219

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2096. The gilded sheath of pity conceals the dagger of envy. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

2097. A poem is no place for an idea. (Edgar Watson Howe)

2098. I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror. (Richard Lewis)

2099. Morality is the backbone of imbeciles. (Francis Picabia)

2100. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. (Wilson Mizner)

2101. Minority often proves to be the majority because it turns out and votes. (L.J. Peter)

2102. Light therapy (...), there's always a tunnel at the end of the light. (André Sauvé)

2103. What's the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers? Mechanical engineers build weapons; civil engineers build targets. (?)

2104. Destiny doesn't like to be forced. That's why it's not on Facebook. (Stéphane Laporte)

2105. A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. (Michael Pollan)

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