The Frictionary # 414

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4056. Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Clarence Darrow)

4057. The church says: the body is a sin.  Science says: the body is a machine.  Advertising says: the body is a business.  The body says: I am a fiesta. (Eduardo Galeano)

4058. Vanity exists. Only lies can be invented. (Georges Braque)

4059. It's a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies. (Gary Larson)

4060. Steak and puns: a rare medium done well. (Richard Lederer)

4061. We expect everything, and we're never prepared for anything. (Sophie Swetchine)

4062. Write drunk, edit sober. (Ernest Hemingway - frequently attributed but unverified*)
* Hemingway said,“I have spent all my life drinking, but since writing is my true love I never get the two things mixed up.” which would indicate opposition to the quotation...


4063. Although the cricket's song
has no words,
still,
it sounds like sorrow.  (Izumi Shikibu)

4064. When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek. (Jim Fiebig)

4065. Love is space and time measured by the heart. (Marcel Proust)

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The Frictionary # 413

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4046. Humor is the good-natured side of a truth. (Mark Twain)

4047. To think is to look for clearings in a forest. (Jules Renard)

4048. Show me a man who thinks he's smarter than his wife...and I"ll show you a man with a very smart wife. (Mason Mastroiani - B.C.)

4049. There's no such thing as a conservative hero. (Christopher Moore)

4050. Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)

4051. Eventually
loneliness stops sleeping with you
too. (Coyote Sings)

4052. In life, we must make sacrifices; the most affordable is the chicken - not too expensive  - not much blood. (Réjean Lévesque)

4053. Knowing is a form of enormous selfishness. (Kathleen Ann Goonan)

4054. Life GPS: "Your life is going nowhere - Recalculating." (Dave Whamond - Reality Check)

4055. Life is largely a matter of expectation. (Horace)

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The Frictionary # 412

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4036. People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them. (Philip Guedalla)

4037. Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters. (Tom Robbins)

4038. The animal which has the most taken advantage of the company of man is the microbe. (Malcolm de Chazal)

4039. Never make a decision when you need to pee. (Leonard Cohen)

4040. I disguise the truth
And lie in your arms. (Réjean Lévesque)

4041. History is the propaganda of the victors. (Ernst Toller)

4042. I know the world won't end in 2012.  My Nutella expires in 2013.  I trust Nutella. (Michael Linhart)

4043. If I were God, I would start over again, except for...woman. (René Barjavel)

4044. Morphine: God's own medicine. (William Osler)

4045. Hope, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one. (Ambrose Bierce)

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The Frictionary # 411

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4026. He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. (Lao Tzu)

4027. Faith is believing what you doubt. (Sourav)

4028. Those who never cry are full of tears. (Maurice Chapelan)

4029. Improvement begins with I. (Arnold H. Glasow)

4030. The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

4031. When people are bored, it's their own fault - when they're boring too. (Réjean Lévesque)

4032. If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. (George Gobel)

4033. Act so that your dream devours your life, so your life will not devour your dream. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

4034. Lawyers are like rhinoceroses; thick skinned, short sighted and always ready to charge. (David Mellor)

4035. Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. (Delmore Schwartz)

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