The Frictionary # 245

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2366. We love so well with closed eyes, why open them? (Alphonse d'Houdetot)

2367. Tolerance is often a form of the superiority complex. (Réjean Lévesque)

2368. Apart from sex, the only realm of human achievement where ignorance and inexperience are widely seen as virtues is politics. (Andrew Potter)

2369. If you already know what you're looking for, then that's all you will find. (Evelyn Hines)

2370. Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food; frequently there must be a beverage. (Woody Allen)

2371. The universe is in no hurry. (Alan Guth)

2372. Truth has no opposite. (Georges Braque)

2373. To what is your boat of consciousness tied?
It is tied to your body, to your thoughts and to your emotions.
Meditation means that you untie the boat. (Osho)

2374. A bit of advice: say nothing often. (?)

2375. Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you have got to start young. (Fred Astaire)

The Frictionary # 244

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2356. A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. (Edgar Watson Howe)

2357. Music is noise that thinks. (Victor Hugo)

2358. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. (P.J. O'Rourke)

2359. When we get old, we lose many of our faults, they've become useless. (Paul Claudel)

2360. My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. (P.J. Plauger)

2361. Genealogy: tracing yourself to people better than you are. (J.G. Pollard)

2362. The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep. (Chuck Jones)

2363. The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. (Tacitus)

2364. Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. (?)

2365. Money doesn't bring happiness. Most of all when you don't have enough. (Alexandre Vialatte)

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The Frictionary # 243

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2346. Time, which fortifies friendships, weakens love. (Jean de la Bruyère)

2347. The real adventure in "Moby Dick" is the one that happens inside Captain Ahab. The rest is a fishing trip. (Salman Rushdie)

2348. Tenacity is easier when you have no choice. (Rick Ridgeway)

2349. Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga. (David Ogilvy)

2350. What is ugly can be beautiful, what is pretty never. (Paul Gauguin)

2351. Laughter is an instant vacation. (Milton Berle)

2352. Courage is the art of being scared without showing it. (Pierre Véron)

2353. Erotica is using a feather; pornography is using the whole chicken. (Isabel Allende)

2354. Mother nature is not a vegetarian. (?)

2355. Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. (L.M. Boyd)

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The Frictionary # 242

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2336. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. (Frank Zappa)

2337. Time is a storm in which we are all lost. (William Carlos Williams)

2338. Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

2339. The main thing in falling in love is that you still have to get back up. (Jean-Michel Ribes)

2340. When things go wrong don't go with them. (Elvis Presley)

2341. Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. (Irma Kurtz)

2342. Profanity is the inevitable linguistic crutch of the inarticulate mother----er. (Bruce Sherrod)

2343. Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. (John Jay Chapman)

2344. Half of the people in the world are below average. (?)

2345. When loving nature, you can never be sure if she'll love you back. (Edgar Degas)

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The Frictionary # 241

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2326. If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live. (James Baldwin)

2327. Give a man an inch and he thinks he's the ruler. (Réjean Lévesque)

2328. Tolerance only applies to things people don't care about. (Bethany Breault)

2329. When they say that the universe is infinite, it rather seems unfinished. (Claude Frisoni)

2330. Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. (David Hare)

2331. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell)

2332. There can be no complete happiness without partial amnesia. (Philippe Bouvard)

2333. Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted. (?)

2334. By constantly going to the bottom of things, you may get stuck there. (Jean Cocteau)

2335. If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking. (Patrick Marber)

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