The Frictionary # 288

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2796. The present is where the future comes to die. (Richard Eskow)

2797. A minor operation is one that is done on someone else. (Richard Selzer)

2798. It's not love that makes the world go 'round, it's inertia. (Gregory Benford)

2799. I agree with changing my mind...but with whom? (Tristan Bernard)

2800. Love is physics. Marriage is chemistry. (Alexandre Dumas, son)

2801. A really smart bomb would refuse to explode. (Alan P. Scott)

2802. Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. (S.A. Sachs)

2803. We make a living by working...We get rich by getting others to work. (Octave Mirbeau)

2804. Democracy is but a word in the dictionary. (?)

2805. A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.* (Joan Walsh Anglund) 
* Commonly attributed to Maya Angelou.

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The Frictionary # 287

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2786. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem)

2787. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin)

2788. We are never more bored than with people to whom we cannot tell it. (Jean Benjamin de Laborde)

2789. Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. (Howard Dietz)

2790. Contempt is a mask worn over sadness. (Alphonse Karr)

2791. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. (Emily Dickinson)

2792. When we smell a flower, we smell the sex of a plant. (Paul-Armand Gette)

2793. It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Publilius Syrus*)
* He was the originator of the famous proverb "A rolling stone gathers no moss." (1st Century B.C.).

2794. TV: chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

2795. Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. (Malcom S. Forbes)

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The Frictionary # 286

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2776. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. (Henry B. Adams)

2777. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. (Anton Chekhov)

2778. That must be what it is to live, making choices regularly, or having the impression of making choices. (Paul Villeneuve)

2779. Silence is one of the hardest argument to refute. (Josh Billings)

2780. Golf is playing marbles for men who don't want to bend over. (Youp van't Hek)

2781. (Poetry) is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. (George Byron)

2782. The philosopher builds a palace of ideas and lives in a cottage. (Bruno Samson)

2783. You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love. (Gerhard Kocher)

2784. If necessity is the mother of invention, what was papa doing? (?)

2785. For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. (Mignon McLaughlin)

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The Frictionary # 285

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2766. Freedom is a shagreen* that shrinks with brain washing. (Henri Jeanson)
* Thin leather that shrinks when wet ("peau de chagrin" in French).

2767. The man who doesn't try is mistaken only once. (Lao Tzu)

2768. They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. (Clint Eastwood)

2769. You can only regret if you had a choice. (Nightmare Brunette)

2770. A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. (Joey Adams)

2771. You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. (Edward Abbey)

2772. If you are an atheist, it must be in bad faith. (Frédéric Dard)

2773. We wear masks in order not to lose face. (Réjean Lévesque)

2774. Beauty is only a light switch away. (?)

2775. Everybody thinks of changing the world, (...), the world will be different if we are different. We are the world. (Tishan)

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