The Frictionary # 528

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4796. There is not a thing more dreadful than imagination without taste. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

4797. Story telling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. (Hannah Arendt)

4798. If we'd perceive that the earth is rotating, merry-go-rounds would go broke. (Quino)

4799. Guilt is regret for what we've done.  Regret is guilt for what we didn't do. (Mark Amend)

4800. Laughter is the result of a collision between expectation and surprise. (Mardy Grothe)

4801. To err is human, to arr is pirate. (funnyoneliners)

4802. Wounds we are ashamed of never heal. (Dany Laferrière)

4803. It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (W. Somerset Maugham)

4804. Being frank does not consist in saying what we think but in thinking what we say. (Coluche or H. de Livry)

4805. Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it's disgusting. (Dave Barry)

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The Frictionary # 527

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4786. Laughter is the highest form of tolerance. (Boris Vian)

4787. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Elie Wiesel)

4788. Being normal is not necessarily a virtue.  It rather denotes a lack of courage. (Alice Hoffman)

4789. And now, each night I count the stars.

And each night I get the same number.

And when they will not come to be counted,

I count the holes they leave.  (Amiri Baraka)

4790. Destiny is like kids in the schoolyard, it attacks the weakest. (Michel Bussi)

4791. What happens when the future has come and gone? (Robert Half)

4792. Poets find first and seek afterwards. (Jean Cocteau)

4793. A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one the author wrote. (Mignon McLaughlin)

4794. Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching. (?)

4795. Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. (Francis Bacon)

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The frictionary # 526

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4776. Laughter is carbonated holiness. (Anne Lamott)

4477. The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. (Demetri Martin)

4478. Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Honoré de Balzac)

4479. An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. (Quentin Crisp)

4480. Human happiness is composed of so many parts that there are always some missing. (Jacques Bossuet)

4481. Nothing
isolated
is understood.  (Positively Wyrde)

4482. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues. (Helen Rowland)

4483. If stupidity could be taxed, the government could be self-financed. (Jean Yanne)

4484. Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters? - Thou shalt not kill.(?)

4485. Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. (Peter McArthur)

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The Frictionary # 525

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4766. Several excuses are always less convincing than one. (Aldous Huxley)

4767. Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. (Eric Hoffer)

4768. What is most difficult for the Pope is that he has no peer to talk shop with. (Jean Yanne)

4769. One swallow does not make a summer
but one skein of geese
cleaving the murk of March thaw,
is the Spring.  (Aldo Leopold)

4770. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. (Maori proverb)

4771. All we need is LOL. (Mouloud Achour)

4772. When we take back all that we've said, remains all that we didn't say. (Philippe Geluck)

4773. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

4774. Faithfulness: lack of opportunity. (?)

4775. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. (Adlai E. Stevenson)

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