The Frictionary #627

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5796. If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. (Norman Thomas)

5797. History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. (Ted Koppel)

5798. France is the only country in the world where the customer is never right. (Jacques Benoît)

5799. Never judge a painting or a woman by candlelight. (Italian proverb)

5800. NOW moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, NOW isn't THEN. (Ursula Le Guin)

5801. Bathroom scale: Scale, useless if you own a big mirror. (Michel Lauzière)

5802. You can't save your ass and your face at the same time. (James Dowler Gow)

5803. So few the grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance. (Jane Hirschfield)

5804. I don't really visit strip joints because it gets quite expensive just to look into a girl's eyes.(Martin Perizzolo)

5805. Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. (Morris Kline)

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