The Frictionary # 384

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3756. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

3757. Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. (George Carlin)

3758. Death is the most egotistical of our actions. (André Langevin)

3759. If dogs could talk, the world would lose its best listeners. (Robert Brault)

3760. Marriage is two plane tickets, one-way only, to an unknown island.  You either come back swimming or not at all. (Félix Leclerc)

3761. Narrative (aka storytelling) is in our DNA.  It's called gossip. (Robert McCrum)

3762. I think life is like a bottle of champagne, once opened, it's impossible to recork. (Hervé Le Tellier)

3763. I am learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma. (Earthea Kitt)

3764. Are tectonic plates dishwasher-safe? (Herb Caen)

3765. The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty. (Publilius Syrus)

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The Frictionary # 383

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3746. Those stuck in the past have no future. (Mardy Grothe)

3747. Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. (Homer Hickman)

3748. After all that men have done for him, God could have given himself the trouble of existing. (Frédéric Beigbeder)

3749. Prettiness is something to like and beauty is something to be scared of. (Brock Clark)

3750. Nothing stops progress; it stops on its own. (Alexandre Vialatte)

3751. I know what men want.  Men want to be really close to someone who will leave them alone. (Elaine Boosler)

3752. Looking for love on the Internet?  It's like going to a bar where everybody would be wearing a mask. (Réjean Lévesque)

3753. We should honor our elders, but don't let them drive. (James Ford)

3754. Lies give flowers but no fruit. (African proverb)

3755. Love is in the air - Depressed fish. (Jacob Ford)

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The Frictionary # 382

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3736. Those stuck in the past have no future. (Mardy Grothe)

3737. A clock sure is a sign of the time. (Jacob Ford)

3738. Education - what the ignorant lacks in order to see that he knows nothing. (Albert Brie)

3739. Nobody believes the official spokesman...but everybody trusts an unidentified source. (Ron Nesen)

3740. Snoring keeps the monsters away. (Judy Blume)

3741. Perfection is impossible. Death is in its way. (Réjean Lévesque)

3742. If history repeats itself as farce, fiction returns as journalism. (Conrad Black)

3743. To see far is one thing, going there is another. (Constantin Brancusi)

3744. "To be is to do". Socrates. "To do is to be". Sartre. "Do be do be do". Sinatra. (?)

3745. Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. (Thomas Fuller)

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The Frictionary # 381

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3726. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. (Paul Boese)

3727. Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision. (Randall Worley)

3728. I prefer people who say "no" to those who say "yes, but..." (Jacques Dutronc)

3729. Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truths to deceive the public. (Vilhjalmur Stefansson)

3730. Sex education maybe a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. (Bill Cosby)

3731. Medecine, in the last century, has made constant progress, inventing thousands of new diseases. (Louis Scutenaire)

3732. Looks like you've got it made - as long as it's made in China. (Mike Baldwin (Cornered))

3733. Life is a balance between rest and movement. (Osho)

3734. If you don't know where you're going, then you can never get lost. (?)

3735. She stole his heart away
Because she didn't have any. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 380

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3716. Courage is knowing what not to fear. (Plato)

3717. All actors seem terrible without ambient sound. (Sarah Silverman)

3718. We are nice often only because we're weak. (Jean-Marie Poupart)

3719. The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. (Andrès Segovia)

3720. ...desire is full
of endless distances. (Robert Hass)

3721. If women knew how much we missed them, they would leave sooner. (Sacha Guitry)

3722. You're never really free unless you know what the rules are. (Henry Alford)

3723. Heart: light when full, and heavy when empty. (Michel Lauzière)

3724. Like butter, a rumor is hard to unspread. (?)

3725. I didn't make my brain
but I'm helping
to finish it. (Michael Dickman)

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