The Frictionary # 515

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4666. In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. (T.S. Eliot)

4667. We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. (Jack Gilbert)

4668. Look around you.  People live with their heads down.  They are looking at the tips of their fingers for a lost moment. (Stéphane Laporte)

4669. You'd be good at yoga!  The first thing you're supposed to do is empty your mind! (Bill Whitehead -"Free Range")

4670. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. (Lin Yutang)

4671. All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. (Red Skelton)

4672. Without lies, truth would die of despair and boredom. (Anatole France)

4673. There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents. (Leon R. Yankwich)

4674. Does a deer tick tock? (Réjean Lévesque)

4675. Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. (Banksy)

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The Frictionary # 514

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4656. The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. (Somerset Maugham)

4657. The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. (Henry J. Tillman)

4658. The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Nicolo Machiavelli)

4659. The sun gets up before I do, I go to bed after he does.  We're even. (Jules Renard)

4660. Take a breath, and you sample the world. (Nathan Wolfe)

4661. Know thyself, but not too much. (Alexandre Arnoux)

4662. A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. (L.J. Peter)

4663. Morning meditation
through the fog the sanskrit
of tree branches.  (Angie LaPaglia)

4664. I always start my diet on the same day...tomorrow. (?)

4665. To add to friendship, subtract divisions. (madeleinebleue)

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The Frictionary # 513

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4646. Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. (Mark Twain)

4647. It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

4648. In the past, there was more future than there is now. (Philippe Geluck)

4649. Thought is action in rehearsal. (William Zinsser)

4650. A push-up bra is like a bag of chips.  You open the bag and it's half empty. (Michael Linhart)

4651. Life is an interrupted sentence. (Victor Hugo)

4652. Man is the principal syllable in 'Management'. (Cate McKenzie)

4653. Money: the only thing that differentiates the rich from the poor. (Michel Lauzière)

4654. Make love, not war.  Or even better, get married and make both. (?)

4655. Clocks claim to keep time -
& they must -
for I do not own a single hour.  (Positively Wyrde)

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The Frictionary # 512

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4636. Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own.  You may both be wrong. (Dandamis*)
* Indian sage who counseled Alexander the Great.

4637. Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age. (H.L. Mencken)

4638. They say that Jesus was married, and the reason the church didn't know about it is that it was a small civil ceremony. (Robert Brault)

4639. Good laws are the offspring of bad actions. (Charles Macklin)

4640. Texting is what connects us to what we are missing, while making us miss what we are doing. (Stéphane Laporte)

4641. Romance: diet-passion. (Michel Lauzière)

4642. There is a subtle difference between hiding your reaction and showing you are hiding your reaction. (Terry Pratchett)

4643. Hospital courtyard
the newborn wind cries
for the first time.  (Coyote Sings)

4644. Knowledge is free at the library.  Just bring your own container. (?)

4645. To ignore the past is also to shorten the future. (Julien Green)

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