The Frictionary # 253

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2446. The perfection of art is to conceal art. (Quintilian)

2447. The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - - ah, that's where the art resides. (Artur Schnabel)

2448. Life is full of surprises, especially if you're absent-minded. (Réjean Lévesque)

2449. Country music is three chords and the truth. (Harlan Howard)

2450. Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. (Liz Smith)

2451. Even if you understood women - you'd never believe it. (Frank Dane)

2452. Love your enemy - it will drive him nuts. (Eleanor Doan)

2453. Nostalgia is like sunburn; it doesn't hurt while it's happening, it hurts in the evening. (Pierre Desproges)

2454. If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? (Stephen Fry)

2455. Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. (George Santayana)

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The Frictionary # 252

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2436. All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. (Andrew Carnegie)

2437. We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. (Peter Devries)

2438. Man longs for the good, looks for better, finds the bad, and yields to it fearing worse. (François Gaston duc de Lévis)

2439. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. (Giuseppe di Tomassi Lampedusa)

2440. Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. (Leonard Cohen)

2441. Being human is to love man. Being wise is knowing him. (Lao Tzu)

2442. If the formula for water is H²O, is the formula for an ice cube H²O squared? (Lily Tomlin)

2443. Modesty is only pride's sense of decency. (Marcel Jouhandeau)

2444. Hope is not a strategy. (?)*
* This quote has been attributed to many authors, namely James Cameron, Julie Gerberding, Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, and Rick Page to name only a few.

2445. Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. (Marian Wright Edelman)

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The Frictionary # 251

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2426. Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. (Elbert Hubbard)

2427. Never have children, only grandchildren.* (Thomas Pryor Gore)
* Generally attributed to Gore Vidal, but he was quoting his grandfather. (Source: Dr. Mardy Grothe)

2428. Communism is one of the only serious diseases that were not tested on animals. (Coluche)

2429. Faithfulness is often a question of habit. (Michel Comte)

2430. Love is too young to know what conscience is. (William Shakespeare)

2431. We only betray those who love us. (Dany Laferrière)

2432. Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. (Horace Mann)

2433. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

2434. Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles. (?)

2435. A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. (Albert Einstein)

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The Frictionary # 250

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2416. Tact in audacity is to know just how far you can go too far. (Jean Cocteau)

2417. What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. (Salman Rushdie)

2418. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish and you're a consultant. (Scott Adams)

2419. Tourists are like lice that suck at the souls of places. (Pierre Foglia)

2420. If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler. (Warren Buffet)

2421. A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. (Walter Savage Landor)

2422. Reality is a staircase going neither up or down, we don't move, today is today, always is today. (Octavio Paz)

2423. -Why do men like expensive things? - Because women do. (B.C.) (Mason Mastroianni)

2424. Thesaurus: n. ancient reptile with large vocabulary. (?)

2425. An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. (Jef Mallett)

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