The Frictionary # 807

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7606. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. (Terry Pratchett)

7607. A rich person is never rich enough to consent to be a little less rich. (André Frossard)

7608. We attribute our successes and failures to choices - (...) - and we tend to think of choices as causes rather than effects. (David Cain)

7609. Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. (Robert Brault)

7610. Learn to die! Why? We get it right easily the first time around. (Sébastien Chamfort)

7611. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody. (Herbert Bayard Swope)

7612. ...inside me was the stillness a bell possesses
just after it has been rung, before the metal
begins to long again for the clapper's stroke. (Brigit Pegeen Kelly)

7613. By sacrificing the essential to the urgency, we end up forgetting the urgency of what's essential. (Edgar Morin)

7614. I think sugar affects memory. I can't remember how many cookies I ate. (Réjean Lévesque)

7615. Invention is the mother of necessity. (Thorstein Veblen)

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The Frictionary # 806

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7596. The Supernatural is the Natural not yet understood. (Elbert Hubbard)

7597. Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots. (Rumi)

7598. A mosquito is like a little kid. When he stops making noise, he's on to something. (Milton Berle)

7599. Life is a rose where each petal is an illusion and each thorn a reality. (Alfred de Musset)

7600. Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. (Baltasar Gracian)

7601. Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. (Vladimir Nabokov)

7602. As you get older, you don't get wiser, You get irritable. (Doris Lessing)

7603. People demand freedom only when they have no power. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

7604. And after all, what is a lie?
'Tis but the truth in masquerade. (George Byron)

7605. Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. (Ambrose Bierce)

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The Frictionary # 805

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7586. Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in. (Ronald Reagan)

7587. Failure is success if we learn from it. (Malcolm Forbes)

7588. We erase the past to better destroy the future. (Alice Parizeau)

7589. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. (Max Eastman)

7590. God, I think, is completely worthless when it comes to after-sale service. (Pierre Foglia)

7591. Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism". (Gordon W. Allport)

7592. Growing up, you've probably heard, "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." From parents, diet gurus, doctors, and especially...breakfast cereal makers. (Kamal Patel)

7593. Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity. (Lewis Mumford)

7594. Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (?*)
* Often attributed to Winston Churchill, but not confirmed.

7595. Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes a free trip around the sun. (Julie Malik)

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The Frictionary # 804

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7576. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. (Confucius)

7577. If Alexander Graham Bell had had a daughter, he'd never have invented the telephone. (Milton Berle)

7578. Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. (Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly) 

7579. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. (Christopher Hampton)

7580. They tell us not to hit our enemy when he's down. OK... But then, when? (Lucien Guitry)

7581. Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. (Robert Southey)

7582. I wanted to have some birds. Bought birdseed, spread it around. Stupid birds came and ate it. Isn't that cannibalism?  (Réjean Lévesque)

7583. The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly" meaning "many", and the word "ticks", meaning "blood-sucking parasites". (Larry Hardiman)

7584. Most butterflies hate caterpillars. (James Ford)

7585. Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. (Marianne Moore) 

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The Frictionary # 803

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7566. Clearly, God is a Democrat. (Patrick Gaddell)

7567. Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. (Confucius)

7568. If you never ask why, you can never change how. (Coyote Sings)

7569. We spend the first part of our life underestimating ourselves. In the second part, we find that we mostly overestimated the others. (Grégoire Lacroix)

7570. A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view. (Joey Adams)

7571. Two things I cannot understand: myself and others. (Erkki Jyrrkanen)

7572. Knowing how to be young is an art we always learn too late. (Pierre Perret)

7573. I never go camping. Life is hard enough as it is.* (Réjean Lévesque)
* Paraphrasing Carol Suskind.

7574. Never give your complete trust to someone who eats cereal standing up. (underchilde)

7575. Waves all recede
light must speed away
while the hairs one by one
turn from black into grey. (James Murray)

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