The Frictionary # 301

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2926. You are only what you are when no one is looking. (Robert C. Edwards)

2927. The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. (Nicola Gomez Davila)

2928. We must despise money, most of all small change. (François Cavanna)

2929. A fact is only a belief that somebody calls a fact. (David Cain)

2930. Bed-bugs can live up to a year without feeding - they're like supermodels. (Craig Ferguson)

2931. Truth and roses have thorns about them. (Henry David Thoreau)

2932. So many people wouldn't go to church if only God could see them. (Jules Petit-Senn)

2933. The most important liquid on Earth is not oil. It is water. (Joette McDonald)

2934. Two plus two, four less four, nine times nine
The square root of pi, theorems and proofs, the curve of a sine
Math is a simile for the shape of time. (Jim Culleny)

2935. I dream, therefore I exist. (August Strindberg)

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The Frictionary # 300

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2916. Make your life a mission - not an intermission. (Arnold H. Glasow*)
* Sometimes quoted as Glasgow.

2917. Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

2918. Platonic love is a volcano without eruptions. (André Prévot)

2919. If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. (P.D. James)

2920. The cow is of the bovine ilk
One end is moo, the other milk. (Ogden Nash)

2921. When women go wrong, men go right after them. (Mae West)

2922. Men that are lost but sure to be human GPS's are much like women who are all convinced that they have taste for decoration. (Guillaume Wagner)

2923. Stupidity has no flag. (Coluche)

2924. Birds of a feather flock together...and then shit on your car. (?)

2925. He who does not hope to win has already lost. (Jose Joaquin Olmedo)

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This edition is the 300th - it is kind of a milestone. The Frictionary debuted on March 11, 2005 and has been published weekly since then. I hope you had as much pleasure reading it as I had picking and offering the quotations that made it up.

The Frictionary # 299

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2906. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

2907. We rarely know why we love. We always think we know why we don't love anymore. (Marcelle Auclair)

2908. The main difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is that the used car salesman can probably drive and knows he's lying. (Peter da Silva)

2909. To imagine is to choose. (Jean Giono)

2910. Advice to writers. Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

2911. Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)

2912. God believes in Planned Parenthood - He had only one child. (Flynn Connolly)

2913. There is never a second chance for the first time. (Frank Dubosc)

2914. God works in mysterious ways. But at least he works. He's never on welfare in mysterious ways. (Stephen Colbert)

2915. Fear is the mother of morality. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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The Frictionary # 298

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2896. Whatever is only almost true is quite false. (Henry Ward Beecher)

2897. The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. (Jonathan Glancey)

2898. Fedoras being expensive, it's better not to let your head get too swollen. (Christian Mistral)

2899. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. (Samuel Johnson)

2900. Whatever limits us, we call fate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

2901. Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. (Corey Ford)

2902. I believe in facing reality, but only because I don't like turning my back on it. (Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest))

2903. Love - it's the country whose infinity is opened by two mirrors facing each other. (André Hardellet)

2904. The Roman numerals for forty (40) are XL. (?)

2905. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. (Victoria Holt)

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