The Frictionary # 458

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4496. The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. (William Taylor Copeland)

4497. If you don't live for something, you'll die for nothing. (Jean-François Vézina)

4498. Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. (Karl Kraus)

4499. Some of us learn from other people's mistakes.  The rest of us have to be the other people. (newfylover1)

4500. Love passes the time and time whiles love away. (Italian proverb)

4501. Color is impotent in the darkness. Positively Wyrde)

4502. Death, the ultimate in democracy. (Réjean Lévesque)

4503. You ran a half-marathon?  Wow!  Half congratulations. (Julius Sharpe)

4504. The "earth" without "art" is just "eh".(?)

4505. If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan (...) I will never despair.  Despair is for those who expect to live forever. (Erica Jong)

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The Frictionary # 457

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4486. Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. (Vernon Howard)

4487. The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. (Malcolm de Chazal)

4488. Flirtation: attention without intention. (Max O'Rell)

4489. The older I get, the more of my memory I outsource to Google. (Bob Thaves -"Frank & Ernest")

4490. Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. (Osho)

4491. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues. (Helen Rowland)

4492. Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. (Jean de La Bruyère)

4493. Instead of 140 characters, Tweets should be limited to your IQ number. (via Cavemancircus.com)

4494. Despair is a form of laziness. (Coyote Sings)

4495. To truly forgive is to let the other person forget. (Robert Brault)

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The Frictionary # 456

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4476. It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. (Voltaire)

4477. Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy. (Spike Milligan)

4478. Imitation is the sincerest form of television. (Fred Allen)

4479. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison. (Curzio Malaparte)

4480. If you're standing on earth, the world is at your feet. (Jacob Ford)

4481. Women are extreme: they are either better or worse than men. (Jean de La Bruyère)

4482. The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. (H.G. Wells)

4483. I leave the window open
so the loneliness
can escape.  (Coyote Sings)

4484. Antonym: n, the opposite of the word you're trying to think of. (?)

4485. Remembrance is a form of meeting.  Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. (Kahlil Gibran)

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The Frictionary # 455

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4466. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. (Virginia Woolf)

4467. Surveys are done so people will know what they think. (Coluche)

4468. Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness.  Both are funny, but only in retrospect. (Arthur Koestler)

4469. Sincerity is the pearl that is formed in the shell of the heart. (Sufi proverb)

4470. The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. (S.I. Hayakawa)

4471. Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. (Josh Billings)

4472. A stone may be inanimate
but it understands gravity.  (Positively Wyrde)

4473. To expect happiness in love is to prepare for misfortune up ahead.  Love does not make you happy, only alive. (Jean-François Vézina)

4474. The animal that has taken advantage of man's company the most is the woman. (Réjean Lévesque)

4475. Aging is mandatory.  Maturity is optional. (Chris Antonak)

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The Frictionary # 454

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4456. Living on Earth, as a person, really exfoliates your soul. (J. Scott Wilson)

4457. To err is human, to admit it, superhuman. (Doug Larson)

4458. Women desire what they love, men love what they desire. (Sacha Guitry)

4459. The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. (Frank Zappa)

4460. One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. (Baltasar Gracian)

4461. The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. (Solomon Short)

4462. The world seems dark when your eyes are closed. (Indian proverb)

4463. To imagine is to raise reality one tone. (Gaston Bachelard)

4464. Life is simple, it's just not easy. (?)

4465. Love is not an emotion.  Love is an action.  The action causes the emotion.  Everyone wants to take the shortcut. (Coyote Sings)

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