The Frictionary # 336

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3276. Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no soul. (Edward Coke)

3277. Nature abhors a vacuum, but not Hollywood. (Chris Honoré)

3278. All breasts are jewels. When young, they're cabochons, then they're pendants. (Sacha Guitry)

3279. Those who claim to always be right are always wrong about at least one thing. (Tala Fane)

3280. Inertia is an expression of nature's laziness. (Hans Christian Von Baeyer)

3281. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. (Rick Warren)

3282. They say drinking coffee keeps you from sleeping. On the other hand, sleeping keeps you from drinking coffee. (Philippe Geluck)

3283. Success teaches us nothing, only failure teaches. (Hyman G. Rickover)

3284. 62.15% of all statistics are meaningless. (?)

3285. Tenderness is passion's lampshade. (Pierre Bourgault)

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The Frictionary 335

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3266. Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

3267. I like to use the carrot instead of the stick. It leaves a more interesting bruise. (Scott Feschuk)

3268. Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has. (Alphonse Karr)

3269. For the frienship of two, the patience of one is required. (Indian proverb)

3270. In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

3271. I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends call it. (Edgar Allen Poe)

3272. Affectionate: the adjective the owner gives to the dog humping your leg. (Réjean Lévesque)

3273. Never confuse the importance of things with the things of importance. (Mardy Grothe)

3274. I wear a necklace, 'cause I wanna know when I'm upside down. (Mitch Hedberg)

3275. You can never learn less, you can only learn more. (Buckminster Fuller)

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The Frictionary # 334

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3256. Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching. (Proverb)

3257. Let's make known pedophiles wear something distinctive so kids can avoid them. Maybe a white collar. (almightygod)

3258. Love is not blind, it's short-sighted. The proof is, it only begins to see flaws when it withdraws. (Michel Zamacoïs)

3259. I make mistakes. I'll be the second to admit it. (Jean Kerr)

3260. Start every day off with a smile...and get it over with. (Emil Reisman)

3261. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when you don't drink it. (Alphonse Allais)

3262. Mystery: ignorance perpetuated as a system. (Réjean Lévesque)

3263. Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. (Marty Feldman)

3264. A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. (?)

3265. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. (Groucho Marx)

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The Frictionary # 333

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3246. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. (Eleanor Roosevelt)*
* This quote is also attributed to Bill Keane and Laszlo Kotro-Kosztandi.

3247. Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. (George Burns)

3248. All religions agree in asking man and woman to go and multiply. None of them tell them how. (Jacques Folch-Ribas)

3249. Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (George Wildman Ball)

3250. Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. (Steven Wright)

3251. The turning point of the women's movement came when some guy invented the automatic transmission. (Jim Ungar ("Herman"))

3252. Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. (Jean F. Guichard)

3253. If cats could talk, they would lie to you. (Rob Kopack)

3254. It's insulting when the cat watches you when you change its litter. ("Lève-toi et marche")

3255. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. (Charles M. Schulz)

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The Frictionary # 332

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3236. That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. (Emily Dickinson)

3237. The awakening of knowing, of self-realization leads to a renunciation, not of the world, but of attachment to it. (Osho)

3238. Diplomats betray everything but their emotions. (Victor Hugo)

3239. The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth. (Carl Sagan)

3240. Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. (Zhuangzi)

3241. "Your body is a temple and your congregation is too large." (via Dale Turner)

3242. Courage is fleeing to the front. (Jacques Maritain)

3243. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. (Robert Frost)

3244. Expectations are resentments under construction. (Ann Lamott)

3245. Nobody ever thought himself to death. (Gilbert Highet)

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