The Frictionary # 557

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5086. Life is like an hourglass you can't turn over - so make every grain count. (John Paul Jones)

5087. It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more that power attracts the corruptible. (David Brin)

5088. The colour of my soul is iron-gray and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. (Claude Debussy)

5089. What empties itself falls into the place that is open. (Jane Hirshfield)

5090. Absence is a wrinkle on memory.  It is the sweetness of a caress, a little poem forgotten on the table. (Tahar Ben Jelloun)

5091. On the keyboard of life, the backspace and delete keys are missing. (Ned Ferguson)

5092. The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. (Thomas Wolfe)

5093. Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute. (Dejan Stojanovic)

5094. If the gazelle gets sick, do not ask the lion to examine her. (Arabian proverb)

5095. Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice. (William Henry Channing)

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