The Frictionary # 645

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5976. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. (Thornton Wilder)

5977. Friendship without trust is a flower without fragrance. (Laure Conan)

5978. The first symptom of death is birth.(Stanislaw J. Lec)

5979. Whispering works wonders with an angry child. Simply whisper gently into his ear and he will stop crying to hear what you are saying. This is also 100 percent effective on husbands. (Lucinda Dashwood)

5980. The hierarchy in France: first, you have the "garçon" who brings you coffee, then the president and then the prime minister. (Sugar Sammy)

5981. Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. (G.C. Lichtenberg)

5982. Good old times: the first symptom of a failing memory. (Réjean Lévesque)

5983. There is nothing erotic
about nakedness except 
if it is hidden. (Positively Wyrde)

5984. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. (James Goldsmith)

5985. What is worse, die too young or live too old? (Gabrielle Roy)

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The Frictionary # 644

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5966. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. (Patrick Rothfuss)

5967. I've never figured out whether people are the same in different ways or different in the same ways. (Robert Brault)

5968.The man who yields when he's wrong is sensible. The man who yields when he's right is married. (Paul Morand)

5969. The universe is

an expanding eye

looking for itself. (Positively Wyrde)

5970. We have always wanted to change. Let's just try to be ourselves...for a change. (André Sauvé)

5971. If women were humbler, men would be more honest. (John Vanbrugh)

5972. Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions. (Jim Rohn)

5973. It is mostly when we see animals suffer that we find they resemble humans. (Réjean Lévesque)

5974. To err is human. To blame it on someone else shows management potential. (?)

5975. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. (Rabindranath Tagore)

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The Frictionary # 643

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5956. True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. (Mignon McLaughlin)

5957. It's better to be alone than to wish you were alone. (Richard Jeni)

5958. Sex, it's dirty, it's sin, it's hell, it's disgusting...and keep it for the person you'll really love. (Jocelyne Robert)

5959. Only the untalented can afford to be humble. (Sylvia Miles)

5960. Love: the only place in life that isn't a battle, but where you are clearly going to lose anyway. (Alain Labonté)

5961. Stars
portions of eternity
in the shape of nuclear explosions. (Réjean Lévesque)

5962. You must be the change you want to see in the world. (Gandhi)

5963. Time flies - those pesky little pests that follow you back and forth in your time machine. (J. Scott Wilson)

5964. Minority: a term applied to the majority of the world's population. (?)

5965. I remember things the way they should have been. (Truman Capote)

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The Frictionary #642

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5946. Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. (Peter Ustinov)

5947. Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it. (Richard Jeni)

5948. If the weathercock could talk, it would say that it controls the wind. (Jules Renard)

5949. Life is a compromise between fate and free will. (Elbert Hubbard)

5950. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. (Naguib Mahfouz)

5951. Happy are the solitary ones
those who sow the sky in the avid sand
those who seek the living under the skirts of the wind
those who run panting after an evaporated dream. (Joyce Mansour)

5952. Q- What comes to mind about the names Brutus, Judas, Iago, and Quisling?
          A- A law firm?  (David Ferrier)

5953. What does Darth Vader use to stir fry his veggies? An Ewok. (Billy Tellier)

5954. Frugality is misery disguised. (Publilius Syrus)

5955. It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. (Thomas H. Huxley)

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The Frictionary #641

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5936. Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. (Jules de Gaultier)

5937. Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. (Dan Brown)

5938. You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press PLAY. (Jay Asher)

5939. Autobiography is a literary genre which leaves the author his choice of "lies". (Victor Lévy-Beaulieu)

5940. My Siamese cats are inseparable. (Matt Diffee)

5941. Death ends a life, not a relationship. (Robert Benchley)

5942. A woman who has a child is nine months of illness and the rest of her life a convalescence. (Francis Picabia)

5943. Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. (Naomi Wolf)

5944. After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. (Italian proverb)

5945. An x-ray is always negative. (Réjean Lévesque)

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