The Frictionary # 554

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5056. Reason: the arithmetic of the emotions. (Elbert Hubbard)

5057. Truth is its own reward. (Plato)

5058. Going away doesn't count, only coming back deserves a tear. (Christian Mistral)

5059. There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable disease and his mother's age. (Benjamin Spock)

5060. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. (Charles M. Schulz)

5061. The memories of a past happiness are the wrinkles of the soul. (Xavier de Maistre)

5062. Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. (Earl Wilson)

5063. The clicking of the hours knits the year. (madeleinebleue)

5064. Beware of the half truth.  You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. (?)

5065. Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. (Rex Harrison)

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The Frictionary # 553

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5046. You are who you are when nobody's watching. (Stephen Fry)

5047. All birth is unwilling. (Pearl S. Buck)

5048. Love is a rose
Each petal is an illusion
Each thorn a reality.  (Charles Baudelaire)

5049. What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?  Incorrectly. (Michael Linhart)

5050. We are messages
in bottles of flesh.  (Positively Wyrde)

5051. The first symptom of true love in a young man is shyness; in a young woman it is boldness. (Victor Hugo)

5052. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote)

5053. Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.* (Attributed to Alexander Woolcott)
* An unknown cynic added," addictive, expensive, or impossible."

5054. We are often wrong by the way we have of being right. (Suzanne Curchod aka Mme Necker)

5055. Desire is in a man hunger, in woman only an appetite. (Mignon McLaughlin)

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The Frictionary # 552

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5036. Time is not money, but it is almost everything else. (Ezra Pound)

5037. I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips. (Will Rogers)

5038. They say power corrupts, and if it would blind instead? (...) Note that it isn't much more reassuring. (Pierre Foglia)

5039. 'Meow' is like 'Aloha'- It can mean anything. (Hank Ketchum)

5040. Our existence is found between two eternities. (Timaeus of Locri)

5041. A book is more complex than a computer and as easy to open as a summer sky. (Dany Laferrière)

5042. The world (...) has six major religions: judaism, Islam, hinduism, buddhism, Christianity, and Facebook. (John Wing)

5043. He who holds on by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. (Antonio Porchia)

5044. Change is a welcome friend - but only if it is invited. (?)

5045. The great religions are the ships, the poets the life boats.  Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. (Hafiz)

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The Frictionary # 551

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5026. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. (Robert Frost)

5027. History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. (Percy Bysse Shelley)

5028. The critic is forever comparing.  The incomparable escapes him. (Jean Cocteau)

5029. There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money. (Stephen Colbert)

5030. It is with love as it is with hearing, with age frequency diminishes. (J.C. Algala)

5031. Never ruin an apology with an excuse. (Benjamin Franklin)

5032. It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. (Leonardo da Vinci)

5033. Trees are your best antiques. (Alexander Smith)

5034. The stars are infested with sad wishes. (Cyborg Meltdown)

5035. We are all made of the same clay, but not the same mold. (Mexican proverb)

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