The Frictionary # 249

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2406. Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. (Budd Schulberg)

2407. Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas. (José Ortega y Gasset)

2408. Being mean is having revenge in advance. (Paul-Jean Toulet)

2409. There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those who think there are 2 kinds of people, and those who don't. (Bran Ferren)

2410. Man is but dust, thus the importance of the duster. (Alexandre Vialatte)

2411. May God keep us from bad neighbors and the beginner violin player. (Italian proverb)

2412. Actors - (...) the opposite of people. (Tom Stoppard)

2413. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. (Ed Cunningham)

2414. Don't join dangerous cults. Practice safe sects. (?)

2415. Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. (Cullen Hightower)

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The Frictionary # 248

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2396. Glory is the sun of the dead. (Honoré de Balzac)

2397. What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. (Robin Williams)

2398. Ignorance, if carefully maintained, has the advantage of protecting its beneficiary from error. (André Frossard)

2399. Having one child makes you a parent, having two you are a referee. (Robert Frost)

2400. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Ellen Parr)

2401. Without irony, the world would be a forest without birds. (Anatole France)

2402. Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland. (Margaret Mahy)

2403. A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. (Ian Fleming)

2404. If life is a jigsaw puzzle, falling in loving is finding the four corners. (?)

2405. You have to be efficient if you're to be lazy. (Shirley Conran)

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The Frictionary # 247

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2386. When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. (Max Lerner)

2387. If religion is the opiate of the masses, explanations are the librium of the elites. (Sam Keen)

2388. Truth is too naked, she doesn't excite men. (Jean Cocteau)

2389. Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. (W.H. Auden)

2390. I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. (Steven Wright)

2391. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. (Earl Wilson)

2392. Painting is very easy when you don't know how. When you know, it's very difficult. (Edgar Degas)

2393. Puberty: stage of development marked by the commencement of southward migration of the human brain. (B.C's Wiley's Dictionary) (Mason Mastroianni)

2394. If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. (?)

2395. There are three universal symbols on this planet: the dollar sign $, tits, and the soccer ball. (Po Bronson)

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The Frictionary # 246

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2376. Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. (Bern Williams)

2377. Possessing means worrying: it's a principle. What you don't have won't create worries. (Yves Thériault)

2378. Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. (Helen Macinnis)

2379. Hope was born from the fear of tomorrow. (Georges Braque)

2380. The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage. (Max Born)

2381. Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone. (Randy K. Milholland)

2382. I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward. (May Sarton)

2383. Rich people have glorified work so their slaves would be proud of being slaves. (Germain Savard)

2384. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own children. (?)

2385. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. (Parkinson's Law) (C. Northcote Parkinson)

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