The Frictionary # 227

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2176. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. (Benjamin Franklin)

2177. I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. (W.C. Fields)

2178. An obsession drives out another one. It's like a diet. (Wilfrid Lemoine)

2179. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. (Søren Kierkegaard)

2180. Religion is to spirituality what porn is to sex. (Grant Morrison)

2181. Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object. (Hermann Hesse)

2182. Politics is the art of preventing people from minding their own business. (Paul Valéry)

2183. Moles don't ask their friends to set them up on blind dates. (Martha Brockenbrough)

2184. In trouble to be troubled
Is to have your trouble doubled. (Daniel Defoe)

2185. Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. (Bertrand Russell)

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The Frictionary # 226

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2166. The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. (Frank A. Clark)

2167. "Faith" is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see,*
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency. (Emily Dickinson)
* This line is sometimes replaced by "For gentlemen who see,".

2168. Knowing that God never makes a mistake we can guess who made the woman. (Arsène Houssaye)

2169. I find that Americans have no passions, they have appetites. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

2170. Ignorance is bliss - - for charlatans. (Martha Brockenbrough)

2171. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. * (Harold Wilson)
* And sometimes the catholic church.

2172. I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. (Ray Prince)

2173. Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. (Lin Yutang)

2174. Silence is golden; duct tape is silver. (?)

2175. Criticism is prejudice made plausible. (H.L. Mencken)

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The Frictionary # 225

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2156. Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. (Ambrose Bierce)

2157. Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I'll join it at once. (Robert Anton Wilson)

2158. We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. (Ian Percy)

2159. Having children changes the man and sometimes his vehicle. (Yves Boisvert)

2160. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. (Virginia Woolf)

2161. Despair is the only unforgivable sin. (Marcel Achard)

2162. (T)raffic crashing your whole site. It's the Internet version of a standing ovation. (Sasha Frere-Jones)

2163. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. (A. Sachs)

2164. Praying is politically correct schizophrenia. (?)

2165. We truly love only when we cannot do otherwise. (Johannes von Müller)

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The Frictionary # 224

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2146. Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. (Ani DiFranco)

2147. The remedy for dirt is soap and water. The remedy for dying is living. (Chinese proverb)

2148. Snakes and ladders: the game of organized religions. (Yahia Lababidi)

2149. If youth knew, if age could. (Henri Estienne)

2150. Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. (Ambrose Bierce)

2151. Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow.
I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will - tomorrow. (Gloria Pitzer)

2152. Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. (Samuel Butler)

2153. Patience is the art of hoping. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)

2154. Show me a man with head held high and I'll show you a man who can't get used to bifocals. (?)

2155. A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. (Evan Esar)

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