The Frictionary # 284

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2756. Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. (Martin H. Fischer)

2757. The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. (Will Rogers)

2758. Life is guaranteed for life. (Pierre Foglia)

2759. Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil. (Sydney J. Harris)

2760. Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification. (Sarah Scott)

2761. We speak of hope, but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear? (Elizabeth Letitia Landon)

2762. The more I know men, the more I love women. (Francis Blanche)

2763. The tango must have been invented by a person prone to indecision. (Félix Leclerc)

2764. The problem with reality is the lack of background music. (?)

2765. Truth is like water that takes the shape of the vase that holds it. (Ibn Khaldun)

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The Frictionary # 283

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2746. The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated. (Doug Horton)

2747. Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. (Sarah Orne Jewett)

2748. Every apple is a flower that has known love. (Félix Leclerc)

2749. His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. (Arthur Baer)

2750. Dust bunnies are molecular chambers and
Laundry is a colorful list of historical moments. (Jen D. Clark)

2751. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road. (Henry Ward Beecher)

2752. Boredom is a disease of life. We build fences so we can jump them. (Alfred de Vigny)

2753. You can't be a genius and not know it. (Réjean Lévesque)

2754. An economist is a man who measures the value of love by the price of prostitution. (?)

2755. A gun gives you the body, not the bird. (Henry David Thoreau)

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The Frictionary # 282

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2736. Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. (Herman Wouk)

2737. There is nothing natural in the Museum of Natural History. (Robert Smithson)

2738. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. (Chinese proverb)

2739. How can a sane woman marry a gynecologist? (Réjean Lévesque)

2740. Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way. (Robert Frost)

2741. Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. (Don Marquis)

2742. Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican
His beak holds more than his belican
He takes in his beak
Food enough for a week.
But I'll be darned if I know how the helican. (Dixon Lanier Merritt)

2743. Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. (Carl Reiner)

2744. Common sense could prevent most divorces, also most marriages. (?)

2745. Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. (Nathaniel Branden)

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The Frictionary # 281

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2726. People don't change, they just adapt. (Link E. Starbureiy)

2727. There is always a big future in computer maintenance. (Christopher Guest)

2728. Only in the control business is there no unemployment. (Julos Beaucarne)

2729. What the hell was God doing before the creation? (Samuel Beckett)

2730. Change is the end result of all true learning. (Leo Buscaglia)

2731. The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. (Al Batt)

2732. Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. (George Carlin)

2733. Our heads are round in order to allow our thoughts to change directions. (Francis Picabia)

2734. If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. (Zen saying)

2735. Money talks but credit has an echo! (Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest))

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The Frictionary # 280

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2716. Why fear death? Be scared of living. (Laura Marling)

2717. Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. (André Gide)

2718. No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

2719. All is relative, except infinity. (François Gaston duc de Lévis)

2720. Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. (Helen Keller)

2721. Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI.* (Christopher Guest)
* There is a version where the FBI is replaced by the CIA.

2722. "There is no one who does not exaggerate", said Emerson. I say there is absolutely no one. (Réjean Lévesque)

2723. Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. (William Arthur Ward)

2724. I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus. (?)

2725. An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. (Don Marquis)

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