The Frictionary # 310

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3016. The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man. (Robertson Davies)

3017. Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing. (Lillian Eichler Watson)

3018. Fashion goes out of fashion, style never. (Coco* Chanel)
*Her real first name was Gabrielle.

3019. There's a difference beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. (John Erskine)

3020. Stability is not immobility. (Klemens von Metternich)

3021. Memory, the ability that chooses. (Laurent Laplante)

3022. They even stopped making excuses. It's cheaper to import them. (Mike Baldwin -"Cornered")

3023. It is the warm law of man
From grape they make wine
From coal they make fire
From kisses they make men. (Paul Éluard)

3024. Once you're over the hill, you pick up speed. (Charles M. Schulz)

3025. Men mourn for what they have lost, women for what they ain't got. (Josh Billings)

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The Frictionary # 309

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3006. Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. (L.J. Peter & Raymond Hull)

3007. A relationship (...), is like a shark, (...). It has to constantly move forward or it dies. (Woody Allen)

3008. Working is health, doing nothing is to preserve it. (Henri Salvador)

3009. Disposable diapers is now engulfing a good one-third of the world's landmass. In descending order of size, I believe it's now Asia, North America, and then Huggies. (Paul Reiser)

3010. The ultimate path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. (Sengstan)

3011. Love is a sickness without which we don't feel good. (Marguerite Grépon)

3012. "Plenty of fish in the sea". But, what they don't tell you though, is that those fish have all been thrown back. (Trevor Boris)

3013. My father loved me. My mother told me so, (Peter MacLeod)

3014. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. (?)

3015. The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you. (Carl Jung)

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The Frictionary # 308

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2996. Love is like a fire, if not fed, it goes out. (Mikhaïl Lermontov)

2997. The sea is the biggest country in the world. The only one where man will always be a stranger. (Stéphane Laporte)

2998. The best liars are those who believe their own lies.* (Liev Schreiber)
* Particularly appropriate in the case of the mid-term elections in the US.

2999. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell)

3000. To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree". ('Almightygod' on Twitter)

3001. To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. (George Byron)

3002. Sometimes I say to a poem,
"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the sun."
And the poem will often
Respond
By climbing onto a barroom table
Then lifts its skirt,
Winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall. (Hafez)

3003. Golf is a game in which you yell "fore", shoot six, and write down five. (Paul Harvey)

3004. We cannot "unlive". (Nicolas Dickner)

3305. To see a candle light, one must take it into a dark place. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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The Frictionary # 307

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2986. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)

2987. When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. (Brian Aldiss)

2988. The first step toward philosophy is incredulity. (Denis Diderot)

2989. Cursing is the bowel movement of the soul. (Joseph Goebbels)

2990. Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. (Diane Wakowski)

2991. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. (Robert Green Ingersoll)

2992. Oprah's announced that she's quitting her show in 2011 - So now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012. (Craig Ferguson)

2993. We always believe the one we know the least. (Stéphane Laporte)

2994. A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in it. (Austin O'Malley)

2995. Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. (Joyce Brothers)

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