The Frictionary # 271

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2626. He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. (Chinese proverb)

2627. Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts. (F.F. Bosworth)

2628. Pride doesn't want to owe and self-esteem doesn't want to pay. (François de La Rochefoucaud)

2629. Rocks make okay friends. They're dependable and loyal. (John Barnes)

2630. Man builds houses because he is alive, but he writes books because he knows he is mortal. (Daniel Pennac)

2631. A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

2632. Love is the only engine of survival. (Leonard Cohen)

2633. A competent man is the one who makes mistakes by the rules. (Paul Valéry)

2634. The best vitamin for making friends: B1. (?)

2635. I think there's a secret to a good marriage; I think honesty is very important. It must be avoided. (Rita Rudner)

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The Frictionary # 270

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2616. There are no right answers to wrong questions. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

2617. Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. (Richard Whately)

2618. A forced duo soon becomes a duel. (Jean Rostand)

2619. I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. (Bill Maher)

2620. Time is the only critic without ambition. (John Steinbeck)

2621. Doctrines have this advantage in that they exempt you from having ideas. (Édouard Henriot)

2622. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. (Dave Barry)

2623. When poverty knocks at the door, love flees out the window. (German proverb)

2624. If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was yesterday? (?)

2625. Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be! (Arthur C. Clarke)

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The Frictionary # 269

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2606. The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question. (Susan Sontag)

2607. Never lose faith in your doubts. (Mary Maggi)

2608. As big as a hole is, there's always something around it. (François Cavanna)

2609. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon)

2610. Words are like eyeglasses; they blur everything that they do not make clear. (Joseph Joubert)

2611. If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse. (Woody Allen)

2612. Cheating is genetic, because cheating is survival. (Réjean Lévesque)

2613. Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled. (Scott Simmerman)

2614. You never really learn how to swear until you learn to drive. (?)

2615. Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. (David Hare)

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The Frictionary # 268

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2596. All colours will agree in the dark. (Francis Bacon)

2597. Our wishes are the memories of our future. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

2598. The road to failure is paved with success. (Drayton Bird)

2599. You cannot be free tomorrow. You can only be free now. (Eric Baret)

2600. A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. (Doug Larson)

2601. The offender never pardons. (George Herbert)

2602. To the Vatican, contraception is "inconceivable". (Réjean Lévesque)

2603. Life is a sheet of paper white
Whereon each one of us may write
His word or two, and then comes night. (James Russell Lowell)

2604. When gas stations start charging for air - that's inflation. (?)

2605. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.* (Woodrow Wilson)
* This one is for Barack Obama.

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