The Frictionary # 710

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

6636. History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. (Konrad Adenauer)

6637.An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. (Djuna Barnes)

6638. Man is not perfect, but that's not surprising if you consider how long ago he was created. (Alphonse Allais)

6639. The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. (Will Rogers)

6640. -More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil, the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die.
- Nothing. (Margaret Atwood)

6641. We only lean on what offers resistance. (François Andrieux)

6642. We are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis. (E.E. Cummings)

6643. A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him. (Elmer G. Letterman)

6644. Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life. (?)

6645. Swimming in the sea is like playing with a giant. (Stéphane Laporte)

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