The Frictionary # 292

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2836. We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. (Buzzy Bavasi)

2837. The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts. (Kedar Joshi)

2838. The only unforgivable sin is the sin of boredom. (Réjean Lévesque)

2839. When turkeys mate they think of swans. (Johnny Carson)

2840. Charles Darwin was not originally an evolutionist, he just gradually became one. (Irwin Barker)

2841. Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away. (Maya Angelou)

2842. Dogs have owners. Cats have staff. (Dave Barry)

2843. Language is the DNA of every culture. (Gilles Vigneault)

2844. Don't take yourself too seriously, nobody else does. (?)

2845. Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it. (Mark Twain)

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The Frictionary # 291

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2826. Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

2827. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! (Marvin Phillips)

2828. Egotist: a man who doesn't think of me. (Eugène Labiche)

2829. Dreams are to achievement what architecture is to construction. (Mardy Grothe)

2830. What is a "blog"? An Internet destination that can be set up in a minute and largely ignored for years at a time. (Chris Pirillo)

2831. The universe is a useless dictionary for someone who does not provide his own grammar. (Nicolas Gomez Davila)

2832. As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. (Norman Wisdom)

2833. A couple is a compromise. (Guy A. Lepage)

2834. Men are like bank accounts; if they have no money they don't generate interest. (?)

2835. Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything. (Frank Yerby)

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The Frictionary # 290

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2816. You cannot unmask a mask. (G.K. Chesterton)

2817. The biggest reason against public transportation: the public. (Mark Denovich)

2818. Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world: everyone thinks he is well equipped. (René Descartes)

2819. Self-love seems so often unrequited. (Anthony Powell)

2820. It's when we have nothing to do that time is precious. (Dany Laferrière)

2821. The grass is always greener in a cemetary. (Amanda Gonzalez)

2822. When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top. (German proverb)

2823. There is no liberation without labor (...) and there is no freedom which is free. (Yogi Bhajan*)
* His Sikh title is the Siri Singh Sahib. He was born Har Bhajan Singh Puri.

2824. Yoreskin (n.): what's left after a circumcision. (Alan P. Scott)

2825. The best time to make friends is before you need them. (Ethel Barrymore)

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The Frictionary # 289

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2806. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

2807. Nietszsche is written as it is sneezed. (?)

2808. Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. (Doug Horton)

2809. Stoicism is a religion that has only one sacrament: suicide. (Charles Baudelaire)

2810. Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. (Bernard Berenson)

2811. Feelings are much like waves; we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf. (Jonaton Martensson)

2812. The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. (Dilbert Principle). (Scott Adams)

2813. Friendship is more often an exit door than an entrance door to love. (Gustave LeBon)

2814. I was denied membership into Club Soda. (Chris Pirillo)

2815. If you write anything criticizing editing or proffreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written (Muphry's Law). (John Bangsund)

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