The frictionary #610

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5626. You can only be afraid of what you think you know. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

5627. The "difficult" is that which can be done immediately; the "impossible" that which takes a little longer. (George Santayana)

5628. The journalist is fundamentally a specialist in ignorance. (Gilles Gougeon)

5629. The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. (Ann Landers)

5630. My favorite way of remembering is to forget. (Elaine Equi)

5631. Memories are like lights, they shimmer even better when they are distant. (Paul Guimard)

5632. Hatred is an affair of the heart, contempt that of the head. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

5633. Life
is the skin
of memory. (Positively Wyrde)

5634. God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. (?)

5635. The world is full of marvels, especially if you are ignorant. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 609

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5616. Happiness is not a pleasure - it is victory. (Zig Ziglar)

5617. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. (G.K. Chesterton)

5618. Lost and found
a feather
that has lost its bird. (Réjean Lévesque)

5619. Eggs (...) the menstrual flow of hens. (attributed to PETA)

5620. Speak only if your words are more beautiful than silence. (Arabian proverb)

5621. Religion is in the heart, not in the knees. (Douglas William Jerrold)

5622. Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. (Khalil Gibran)

5623. In jealousy, there is more of self-love than love. (François de La Rochefoucaud)

5624. Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women. (Andrew Sullivan)

5625. If you doubt your powers, you give power to your doubts. (Claude D'Astous)

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The frictionary # 608

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5606. Hope is a blank page. As long as the page is blank we can believe that we'll draw the most beautiful picture. (Stéphane Laporte)

5607. Unawareness isn't something you can be aware of. (...) In other words, it's only when you come back that you notice you were gone. (David Cain)

5608. If it's a movement, I sometimes think it needs a laxative. (Florynce Kennedy)

5609. We mustn't touch idols; the gilding remains on our hands. (Gustave Flaubert)

5610. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. (Hosea Ballou)

5611. To love is to feel that we're missing something. (Jorge Luis Borges)

5612. Desire motivates
the mass production
of illusion. (Positively Wyrde)

5613. Salad dressing is just lettuce gravy. (Jim Gaffigan)

5614. Life has no remote; get up and change it yourself. (?)

5615. If life is a dream, dying is an insomnia. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

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The Frictionary # 607

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5596. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
- One clover, and a bee
And revery
The revery alone will do
If bees are few. (Emily Dickinson)

5597. When red fights with white, pink is always the winner - Let that be a lesson in love. (Jarod Kintz)

5598. It is always the prudent who pay for the excesses of the others. (Wilfrid Lemoine)

5599. People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. (Ogden Nash)

5600.Two married people should refrain from quarrelling if they don't love each other enough to make up. (Alphonse Allais)

5601. Bad weather always looks worse through a window. (John Kieran)

5602. A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman of the next generation. (James Freeman Clarke)

5603. A lie always has a reason, the reason also a lie. (Robert Brault)

5604. We recognize happiness by the noise it makes when it leaves.* (Katherine Pancol)
* Also attributed to Jacques Prévert and Louis Jouvet)

5605. Canned music is like audible wallpaper. (Alistair Cooke)

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The Frictionary #606

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5586. You don't love because; you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. (William Faulkner)

5587. The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. (Colin Wilson)

5588. If fire would burn down my house, what would I take with me? I'd like to take the fire...(Jean Cocteau)

5589. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Bertolt Brecht)

5590. Worry is a stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. (Arthur Somers Roche)

5591. The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. (Thomas A. Edison)

5592. The door to change can only be opened from the inside. (Jacques Salomé)

5593. If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day. (Leonard Cohen)

5594. Consultant: person who borrows your watch to give you the time, then keeps your watch. (?)

5595. The enemy of learning is knowing. (Steve Ahn)

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