The Frictionary # 449

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4406. Brotherhood: uninhabitated land found at the frontiers of liberty and equality.(Simon Jodoin)

4407. When one guy sees an invisible man, he's a nutcase, ten people see him, it's a cult; ten million people see him, it's a respected religion. (Richard Jeni)

4408. How do you know when enough is enough? Hint: Enough is always enough. (Robert Brault)

4409. When you talk behind someone's back, it means that he's ahead of you. (Stéphane Laporte)

4410. The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. (James F. Byrnes)

4411. Love is the final end of the world's history - the Amen of the Universe. (Novalis)

4412. Childhood is a knife stuck in the throat.  It is not easily removed. (Wajdi Mouawad)

4413. History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

4414. After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. (?)

4415. We stand up walls to make a house but the hollow within is where the living takes place.  Non-being is at the heart of being. (Lao Tzu)

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The Frictionary # 448

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4396. Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. (J.M. Barrie)

4397. The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. (Arthur Bloch)

4398. When something is written, it always seems true.  Because the voice that silently reads what's written is ours.  We always believe ourselves. (Stéphane Laporte)

4399. Footnotes are like going downstairs to answer the door on your wedding night. (John Barrymore)

4400. The door sighs
into its frame
leaving us locked in the world.  (Positively Wyrde)

4401. A secret can also be a weapon. (Réjean Lévesque)

4402. There needs to be a law, but before there is a law, there has to be a crime. (Terry Pratchett)

4403. Creativity does not come in a box.  It comes building the box. (Rob Thomas)

4404. Hell has no exits.  Heaven needs none. (?)

4405. No: simple word that we don't want to understand. (Michel Lauzière)

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The Frictionary # 447

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4386. We say that people lose themselves, but it would probably be more accurate to say that they have abandoned themselves. (Mardy Grothe)

4387. I don't understand you.  You don't understand me.  What else do we have in common? (Ashleigh Brilliant)

4388. A dog's lone bark
Hazy red and grey sunset
Is it the end or the beginning?  (Réjean Lévesque)

4389. The sun readily accepts passing through little windows. (Frederik Van Eeden)

4390. God made the country, and man made the town.* (William Cowper)
* ..."and the Devil made the suburbs." added William Morris.

4391. The verb to resist must always be conjugated in the present tense. (Lucie Aubrac)

4392. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. (Byrd Baggett)

4393. The boomerang is like the Frisbee but for people who have no friends. (Redouanne Harjane)

4394. You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. (Vernon Howard)

4395. "My lives have no meaning" - A depressed cat. (funnyoneliners)

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The Frictionary # 446

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4376. If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. (Don Knuth)

4377. If you do something you'll regret in the morning, sleep till noon. (Marty Zobel)

4378. A house without children is a bit like a pigsty without pigs. (François Léveillée)

4379. Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. (Chinese proverb)

4380. Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. (Charles Kennedy)

4381. No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. (John Donne)

4382. You should work on your concentration; if not, we'll send you to concentration camp. (Réjean Lévesque)

4383. The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it. (Robert Brault)

4384. Men are from Mars.  Women are from Venus.  Gays are definitely from Saturn - the only planet chic enough to accessorize with a belt. (Luka & Lincoln)

4385. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. (Gandhi)

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