The Frictionary # 323

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3146. Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question. (Billy Connolly)

3147. Camping (...), I'm from New York, where we call it homeless. (Karen Williams)

3148. Passion is a hypertrophy of the sense of ownership. (Étienne Rey)

3149. Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. (Elizabeth Bowen)

3150. Girl scouts: beggars with merit badges. ($#*! My Dad Says)

3151. Books had instant replay long before televised sports. (Bert Williams)

3152. Sighing is a reproach to the present, a smile to the past. (Delphine de Girardin)

3153. Adultery is the application of democracy to love. (H.L. Mencken)

3154. Advice to men over 50: keep an open mind and a closed refrigerator. (?)

3155. You find in solitude only what you take to it. (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

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The Frictionary # 322

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3136. Successful crimes alone are justified. (John Dryden)

3137. The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. (Abe Lemons)

3138. Woman is the only mammal in the creation who, when coupling, is able to worry. (Pierre Foglia)

3139. "Gods" are like fingerprints - every person who believes in "God" has his or her own version of God. (Erich Vieth)

3140. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (Margaret Thatcher)

3141. I'd rather do nothing but do it well. (Bruno Blanchet)

3142. Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. (Fran Lebowitz)

3143. We've had bad luck with our kids....they've all grown up. (Christopher Morley)

3144. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. [Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.] (?)

3145. Does God exist? God only knows. (Jean d'Ormesson)

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The Frictionary # 321

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3126. The source of justice was the fear of injustice. (Horace)

3127. Banks (...) lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess. (Irving Fisher)

3128. In gambling, when you're winning it's a profession. And when you lose, it's a sickness. (Réjean Tremblay)

3129. Wakefulness is a waste of energy. Cats and babies know this. (Walter Weller)

3130. Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry. (Charles Osgood)

3131. Why is it that it's always those who are against abortion that you would have wished their mothers had been aborted. (Guy Nantel)

3132. Habit is a form of exercice. (Elbert Hubbard)

3133. Third sign of the Apocalypse: there is a Golf Channel. (Chris Pirillo)

3134. If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. (?)

3135. Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. (Karl Kraus)

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The Frictionary # 320

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3116. I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. (Robert Anton Wilson)

3117. Passion is other people's love. (Henri Duvernois)

3118. A lawsuit was dismissed against God. (...) the judge said you can't sue God. Because if you do, the next thing they'll start to challenge Microsoft. (Bill Maher)

3119. Impatience is a thirst that no justification can quench. (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

3120. What is love? An extension of life. What is lust? An extension. (Rodney Dangerfield)

3121. A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman knows. (Monica Piper)

3122. Politics is a tango. One step forward, two backwards. (Stéphane Laporte)

3123. After one look at this planet any visitor from outer pace would say, "I want to see the manager." (William S. Burroughs)

3124. "Google before you Tweet" is the new "think before you speak." (?)

3125. The freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. (A.J. Liebling)

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