The Frictionary # 279

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2706. Love is random; fear is inevitable. (Orson Scott Card)

2707. Words are the small change of thought. (Jules Renard)

2708. I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. (Arthur C. Clarke)

2709. A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended. (Evan Esar)

2710. The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it. (Julie Holz)

2711. Cruelty is the first of God's attributes. (André Gide)

2712. I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. (David Lee Roth)

2713. We don't get to change things to suit our desires, but, little by little, our desires change. (Marcel Proust)

2714. Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button. (?)

2715. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. (Erica Jong)

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The Frictionary # 278

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2696. Do not be afraid of making mistakes for there is no other way of learning how to live. (Alfred Adler)

2697. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. (Dave Barry)

2698. Fear was only the ancient word for respect. (Nancy Kress)

2699. The key to all sciences is assuredly the question mark. (Honoré de Balzac)

2700. Punctuality is the thief of time. (Oscar Wilde)

2701. It's kind of a cross between hunting and gathering... I call it "taxing". (Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest))

2702. Lying to children is stirring up revolution. (Pierre Gélinas)

2703. Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the anonymous blogger. (Simon Moores)

2704. Love changes everything except diapers. (?)

2705. You were born an original, so don't die a copy. (Mardy Grothe)

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The Frictionary # 277

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2686. Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. (Christine Keeler)

2687. Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. (G.K. Chesterton)

2688. Achilles was gay. He broke a heel and died. (ANT)

2689. I won't brag about having taste, but my distaste is very trustworthy. (Jules Renard)

2690. Democracy is based on the idea (among others) that nobody is more entitled to govern than the others. So, it is perfectly democratic to elect imbeciles. (Pierre Foglia)

2691. Fear is like the microwavable version of respect. It doesn't taste as good, but it's much easier to make. (Jack Collins)

2692. Women can fake orgasms, we (men) can fake listening. (Alonzo Bodden)

2693. Because he has been taught that solitude is a disease, man has transformed himself into a turtle with antennae who carries his office on his back. (Charles Dantzig)

2694. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. (?)

2695. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. (Antisthenes*)
* Co-founder (with Diogenes) of the Cynic School of Philosophy.

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The Frictionary # 276

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2676. The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. (Barry Goldwater)

2677. Never buy a bagel in a donut shop. (Cathy Holdeman)

2678. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. (...). Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. (Kent Nerbum)

2679. It is what divides men that multiplies their differences. (Pierre Dac)

2680. Never tie a shoelace in a revolving door. (Charles Veritie)

2681. Marriage is a graft; it takes or not. (Victor Hugo)

2682. Intelligence alone could defeat the heat-death of the universe, the dark wolf at the long, thin end of time. (Ian McDonald)

2683. It is not chic to be too chic. (Elsie de Wolfe)

2684. The difference between men and boys...is the price of their toys. (?)

2685. Eyes believe in themselves, ears believe others. (German proverb)

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