The Frictionary # 267

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2586. Sad people have the most beautiful smiles. (Claude Jasmin)

2587. To try to be better is to be better. (Charlotte Cushman)

2588. Silence holds all truths, words hold all lies. (Jacques Ferron)

2589. New York is the city where the future comes to rehearse. (Ed Koch)

2590. Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. (Kahlil Gibran)

2591. Justice is the sublimation of jealousy. (Sigmund Freud)

2592. Sure, marriage can be fun some of the time. Trouble is, you're married all of the time. (John Wagner as "Maxine")

2593. A vasectomy is never having to say you're sorry. (Rubin Carson)

2594. Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don't think. (?)

2595. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)

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The Frictionary # 266

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2576. As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

2577. The plural of conscience is conspiracy. (Arthur Henderson)

2578. When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

2579. Ring the bells that can still ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen)

2580. Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

2581. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe. (Peter De Vries)

2582. God only helps those who know how to swim. (Achille Chavée)

2583. Wouldn't this world be a cleaner place if we could just give blind people brooms instead of canes. (Nick Thune)

2584. Two thirds of the people live in big cities and the others live on freeways. (?)

2585. Never answer an anonymous letter. (Yogi Berra)

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The Frictionary # 265

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2566. No wise man ever wished to be younger. (Jonathan Swift)

2567. It takes two men to make a brother. (Israel Zangwill)

2568. The person who discovered that we only use 10% of our brains had only used 10% of his(her) brains. (Pierre Légaré)

2569. Our enemies are not those that hate us, but those that we hate. (Anthony de Mello)

2570. Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. (George Iles)

2571. Justice is like a train that's nearly always too late. (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

2572. You must pay for your sins. If you already have paid, please ignore this notice. (Sam Levenson)

2573. If God dies, Jesus will inherit everything! (Jean-Marie Gourio)

2574. Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. (Ingrid Bergman)

2575. We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. (Peter De Vries)

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The Frictionary # 264

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2556. One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing. (Arnold Bax)

2557. Nature (...) is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. (Blaise Pascal)

2558. - It must be lonely at the top. - But it's a great place for keeping an eye on all of your enemies. (Bob Thaves)

2559. Coffee in England is just toasted milk. (Christopher Fry)

2560. The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children. (Denis Diderot)

2561. Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

2562. Cleanliness is the poor man's luxury. (Francis Picabia)

2563. Women would rather be right than reasonable. (Ogden Nash)

2564. Conscience: faults alarm. (?)

2565. What is evil, if not good tortured by its own hunger and its own thirst. (Kahlil Gibran)

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The Frictionary # 263

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2546. Life is great - I don't know what I'd do without it. (Alan Alda)

2547. Historian: broad-gauge gossip. (Ambrose Bierce)

2548. Look twice to see right, only once to see beautiful. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)

2549. Women give us the silent treatment because they think it's a punishment (...). We call it "peace and quiet". (Jimmy Carr)

2550. The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities. (Richard Bach)

2551. Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. (Frank Zappa)

2552. The real advantage of breast-feeding is that only female persons can do it. (Dave Barry)

2553. We all want to be understood but not to the extent of being unmasked. (Albert Brie)

2554. Flattery is the sincerest form of lying. (?)

2555. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. (H.L. Mencken)

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