The Frictionary # 349

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3406. The mathematics of love, (...) love does not count costs, only value. (Nick Harkaway)

3407. Ads are the foreplay of selling, the lubricant of commerce. (Patrick Lagacé)

3408. (The Netherlands), this glorified swamp. (Thom Holverda)

3409. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. (W.R. Inge)

3410. Village: first social networking site. (Réjean Lévesque)

3411. I miss the old days when we were smarter than our phones. (Wiley Miller - Non Sequitur)

3412. Vice is evil done without pleasure. (Colette)

3413. Is time long or is it wide? (?)

3414. Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind? (Robin Hobb)

3415. Man is a fish that took a wrong turn. (Stéphane Laporte)

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The Frictionary # 348

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3396. The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. (John K. Galbraith)

3397. If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? (Jerry Seinfeld)

3398. I rented a movie about swimming, but there were lengths. (Frankie)

3399. To use the term 'blind faith' is to use an adjective needlessly. (Julian Ruck)

3400. Violence, whatever shape it takes, is a failure. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

3401. A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. (Clifton Fadiman)

3402. Women should be obscene and not heard. (Groucho Marx)

3403. Not many people have the courage to be cowards in front of witnesses. (Théophile Gautier)

3404. All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. (?)

3405. Silence is the mother of truth. (Benjamin Disraeli)

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The Frictionary # 347

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3386. Time is the longest distance between two places. (Tennessee Williams)

3387. Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not. Humor to console him for what he is. (Bernard Werber)

3388. Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 out of the 3 last depressions. (Barry Asmus)

3389. Pardon crosses out. It does not erase. (Robert Sabatier)

3390. Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. (Elbert Hubbard)

3391. Welcome to heaven; here's your harp. Welcome to hell; here's your accordion. (Gary Larson)

3392. Happiness can only be the result of a comparison. (Eugène Beaumont)

3393. White people all have watches, but they never have the time. (African proverb)

3394. A natural death is where you die by yourself without the aid of a doctor. (Mark Twain)

3395. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. (Edmund Burke)

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The Frictionary # 346

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3376. Growing old is tedious, but it's the only way we have found to live long. (Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve)

3377. When it comes to charity, a lot of people will stop at nothing. (Jimmy Carr)

3378. The sky's the limit? I don't like boundaries. (Réjean Lévesque)

3379. What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. (Mark Twain)

3380. I find that substitute teaching is the best form of birth control. (Sheri Tefft)

3381. Scratch a cynic and you'll find a disappointed romantic. (Christopher Moore)

3382. Truth is nothing to man without discovery. (Pierre Billon)

3383. Mistakes - or prototypes, as engineers call them. (James Dyson)

3384. Hell is other people's children. (?)

3385. "Cell-fishness": texting, checking e-mail, talking on the phone in public. (?)

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