The Frictionary # 772

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7256. Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. (Oscar Wilde)

7257. Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. (Ernest Haskins)

7258. After having contemplated the moon
my shadow
walks me back home. (Yamaguchi Sodô)

7259. Cuisine is the most ancient of the arts, because Adam was born with an empty stomach. (Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

7260. Everyone in favor of birth control has already been born. (John Colpitts)

7261. I don't like women who sleep with you the first night. I hate it, you have to wait all afternoon. (Patrick Timsit)

7262. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. (Steven Wright)

7263. Archeology: the study of human wastes. (Réjean Lévesque)

7264. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt. (?)

7265. Being average means you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top. (John Wooden)

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The Frictionary # 771

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7246. Personal isn't the same as important. (Terry Pratchett)

7247. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, & not enough presence. (Shanti Dharm)

7248. Martyrdom, the only way to become famous when you have no talent. (Pierre Desproges)

7249. Nature's rotundest tummy,
its greatest success story,
the onion drapes itself in its
aureoles of glory. (Wislawa Szymborska)

7250. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Don Marquis)

7251. Man is not made for work. The proof is that it tires him. (Georges Courteline)

7252. Justice, n. History's oldest work-in-progress. (Mardy Grothe)

7253. Does God adore himself? (Réjean Lévesque)

7254. Make a list of the things that make you happy. Make a list of things you do every day. Compare the lists. Adjust accordingly. (?)

7255. Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn. (Larry Niven)

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The Frictionary # 770

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7236. If you're caught in a vicious circle of your own doing, just turn left where you normally turn right. (Oscar Wilde*)
* Also attributed to Jerry Seinfeld)

7237. What you resist, persists. (...) by your continued attention to it in a negative way, you continue to place it there. (Neale Donald Walsch)

7238. Generalities are made of exceptions. (Solal Malibu)

7239. A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and they both speak of it as an affair of the heart. (Helen Rowland)

7240. The piano, the rich man's accordion. (Michel Audiard)

7241. Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. (Barbara Sher)

7242. I just can't read
the expiration date
on my heartache. (Réjean Lévesque)

7243. When I meet a man I ask myself, "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?". (Rita Rudner)

7244. A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. (?)

7245. Ungratefulness: Amnesia of the heart. (Michel Lauzière)

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The Frictionary # 769

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7226. Resolutions, they're like newborn babies, I never know how to hold them. (Billy Tellier)

7227. Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell. (Tom Robbins)

7228. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. (Joey Adams)

7229. Love is three-quarters curiosity. (Giacomo Casanova)

7230. Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes. (Abigail Van Buren)

7231. People buy with emotion and justify with reason. (Hanan Levin)

7232. The present comes from farther back than it believes. (Alexandre Vialatte)

7233. Echo surely is 
Socratic in nature
it will return
your question back to you. (Réjean Lévesque)

7234. In school, you learn the past simple, but nothing about the future complicated. (?)

7235. If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. (Barbara L. Diamond)

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