The Frictionary # 331

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3226. It is tact that is golden, not silence. (Samuel Butler)

3227. What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. (William Henry)

3228. Kindergardens, those abominable goulags of childhood. (Pierre Foglia)

3229. Scratch a dog, and you'll find a permanent job. (Franklin P. Jones)

3230. One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time a person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. (William Feather)

3231. To us, life is a door. Open or closed. In fact, life is a heart. Never completely open, never completely closed. (Stéphane Laporte)

3232. We have reconstructed the Tower of Babel and it's a television antenna. (Ted Koppel)

3233. Must Sean Penn always look like he's squeezing the last drop out of a sponge and the sponge is his face? (Dean Young)

3234. Less is more...more or less. (Dave Whamond "Reality Check")

3235. Hope is patience with the lamp lit. (Tertullian)

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The Frictionary # 330

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3216. If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you. (Oscar Wilde)

3217. Our universe is 13.7 billion years old*...give or take a few weeks. (Réjean Lévesque)

*This may come as a shock to creationists.

3218. No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. (Mark Twain)

3219. As a remedy to life in society, I suggest large cities: they are the only convenient desert. (Albert Camus)

3220. When you're in love, it's the most glorious two-and-a-half days in your life. (Richard Lewis)

3221. The colours of summer

Mixed with the shouts of a child

Who is not mine... (Jocelyne Villeneuve)

3222. If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. (Mel Brooks)

3223. Working in Hollywood does give a certain expertise in the field of prostitution. (Jane Fonda)

3224.Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. (Dale Dauten)

3225. Water takes the colour and the shape of the vase that holds it. (Driss Chraïbi)

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The Frictionary # 329

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3206. You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in. (Mardy Grothe)

3207. Where do bees go to wash their hands? (Réjean Lévesque)

3208. Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. (H.L. Mencken)

3209. (Mentalist): one who uses his five senses to give the impression that he has a sixth one. (Gary Kurtz)

3210. Science does not have all the answers. We just don't have all the science. (Jim Razinha)

3211. After Love (...) Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when
the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self
lay lightly down, and slept. (Maxine Kumin)

3212. Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) when in charge, ponder. (2) when in trouble, delegate. (3) when in doubt, mumble. (James H. Boren)

3213. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. (Jerome K. Jerome)

3214. My loneliness was pure until someone noticed it. (Andrew Cedermark)

3215. One can resist the invasion of armies, one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.* (Victor Hugo)
*Often paraphrased as "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

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The Frictionary # 328

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.3196. Architecture is the art of how to waste space. (Philip Johnson)

3197. Life is a series of commas, not periods. (Matthew McConaughey)

3198. If all it would take to reach enlightenment would be to assume the position of the lotus, all frogs would be buddhas. (Louis Pauwels)

3199. I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long. (Mitch Hedberg)

3200. We have no scar to show for happiness. (Chuck Palahniuk)

3201. The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. (Ted Nelson)

3202. Even if we are under the impression that it stutters, time is always accelerating, (...). Think about the leash of the tethered dog turning around the stake, inevitably faster and faster because with every turn, its leash is getting shorter. (Pierre Foglia)

3203. There is no time like the pleasant. (Oliver Herford)

3204. As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. (Buddy Hackett)

3205. I will not take "but" for an answer. (Langston Hughes)

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