The Frictionary # 798

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7516. Home is not where you live but where they understand you. (Christian Morgenstern)

7517. There is nothing more beautiful than a key, as long as you don't know what it unlocks. (Maurice Maeterlinck)

7518. A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

7519. Politics: a Trojan horse race. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

7520. One extends one's limits by exceeding them. (Scott M. Peck)

7521. If God is all-seeing, technically, he's a peeping tom. (Réjean Lévesque)

7522. If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. (William Blake)

7523. We always forget that infinity doesn't have a beginning either. (Claude Frisoni)

7524. Trust: permission we give a person so he/she may be allowed to do stupid things. (?)

7525. The possible is from yesterday and has happened; only the impossible has yet to be born. (Denys Gagnon)

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The Frictionary # 797

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7506. Knowing trees, I appreciate the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence. (Hal Borland)

7507. If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right. (Kinky Friedman)

7508. Argue: Shutting up alternately. (Michel Lauzière)

7509. It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. (G.C. Lichtenberg)

7510. Love is a punishment. We are chastised for not having been able to remain alone. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

7511. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. (John Wilmot)

7512. Infinity can only lead to zero and reciprocally. (Pierre Dac)

7513. Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. (Richard Wright)

7514. Nurses can take the pressure.* (?)
* Thankfully!

7515. For the children of immigrants there can be no returning, because they've never left. (Albert Memmi)

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The Frictionary # 796

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7496. Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. (Jim Murray)

7497. Modesty is always false modesty. (Jules Renard)

7498. [Adolescence]: Mope. Hope. Grope. (Maxine Davis)

7499. Without porn and anger the Internet would fall down. (Andy Borowitz)

7500. The sea teaches sailors dreams that the harbors murder. (Bernard Giraudeau)

7501. Religion, like poetry, is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious reality. (H.L. Mencken)

7502. It is a duty for politicians to speak out; when they are silent, we believe they're thinking. (André Frossard)

7503. There is a cult of ignorance in the U.S.A. (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. (Isaac Asimov)

7504. Each time you lend money to a friend, you damage his memory. (?)

7505. Solitude is a necessary condition for freedom. (Gao Xingjian)

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The Frictionary # 795

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7486. Antiquity is the aristocracy of history. (Alexandre Dumas)

7487. Rubs lather into his cheeks
and then with a razor
shaves the wolf from his face. (Ester Naomi Perquin)

7488. If you are too much like myself, what shall I learn of you, or you of me? (Mary Oliver)

7489. Liberty, equality, fraternity: the names of three beautiful ladies, baptized in France but who are living abroad. (Guy Dupréhault)

7490. A single clock works only as long as it refers (...) to other clocks around it. (Alan Burdick)

7491. Truth is sometimes like a toothbrush, and you only share that with people you really trust. (Will Sharpe)

7492. They say money can't buy love, except for certain marriages. (Réjean Lévesque)

7493. The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. (Søren Kierkegaard)

7394. What does the blind man say when you hand him some sandpaper? -"It's written quite tight." (?)

7395. The fears you don't face, become your limits. (Robin Sharma)

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