The Frictionary # 440

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4316. Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are. (Oscar Wilde)

4317. Wait for me on the other side of the year: you will meet me like a lightning flash stretched to the edge of autumn. (Octavio Paz)

4318. Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside of an advertising agency. (Raymond Chandler)

4319. Those who never retract themselves love themselves more than the truth. (Joseph Joubert)

4320. The paradox of zen is that you have to grasp and let go of now at the same moment.  Time is just a rail we hold on to going upstairs. (Coyote Sings)

4321. The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. (Heinrich Heine)

4322. Writing down verses, I got
a paper cut on my palm.
The cut extended my life line
by nearly one fourth.  (Vera Pavlova)

4323. The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. (Zora Neale Hurston)

4324. I don't like heights.  That's why I stopped growing at fifth grade. (Billy Crystal)

4325. Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. (Melba Colgrove)

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The Frictionary # 439

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4306. The reason why so little is done is generally because so little is attempted. (Samuel Smiles)

4307. Spent the evening putting together Ikea furniture.  I need to learn how to swear in Swedish. (Benjamin Wallace)

4308. Hope is the privilege of losers. (Jean Van Hamme)

4309. A lot of people cry when they cut onions.  The trick is not to form an emotional bond. (newfylover1)

4310. Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. (Antonio Porchia)

4311. Courage is fire, bullying is smoke. (Benjamin Disraeli)

4312. Time is the alembic that turns what we know into mystery. (Anne Michaels)

4313. Muslims do not have piggy banks. (Redouanne Harjane)

4314. I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. (John Meynard Keynes)

4315. A sigh just isn't a sigh.  We inhale the world and breathe out meaning.  While we can.  While we can. (Salman Rushdie)

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The Frictionary # 438

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4296. Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (William Allen White)

4297. The more you know, the more there is just beyond, and it keeps on coming. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

4298. Man is born good.  It starts to degrade between 6 and 7 months. (Georges Perros)

4299. Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. (Kahlil Gibran)

4300. To make time go by at a rythm that suits you and to make it more exciting, trade your hourglass for a pepper mill. (Grégoire Lacroix)

4301. Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. (Israel Zangwill)

4302. Sometimes, the first step to forgiveness is understanding that the other person is a complete idiot. (funnyoneliners)

4303. I often think about nothing, which is better than not thinking at all. (Raymond Queneau)

4304. Worry is the darkroom in which "negatives" are developed. (?)

4305. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

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The Frictionary # 437

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4286. Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. (Oscar Wilde)

4287. The signs of Spring!  The birds singing.  The trees budding (...). Taking down our Christmas lights. (Glen McCoy "The Duplex")

4288. Experience teaches us that it is much easier to take hostages than it is to release them. (André Frossard)

4289. Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. (Al McGuire)

4290. "Charity begins at home" - along with beating, Homeland Security and obesity. (Tropicbob at "Quote/Counterquote*")
* http://www.quote/counterquote.com/

4291. Individually, we are one drop.  Together, we are an ocean. (Ryunosuke Satoro)

4292. Antipathy is like love: it implies a certain reciprocity. (Frédéric Dard)

4293. The true poem is in the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship builder. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

4294. Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. (?)

4295. Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. (Mignon McLaughlin)

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