The Frictionary #833

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7866. Poverty is not the absence of wealth. Poverty is the absence of dignity. (Ian Rosenberger)

7867. Dictatorship is, "Shut your mouth"...Democracy is, "You can say all you want but...". (Coluche)

7868. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. (H.G. Wells)

7869. Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising left. (David Ogilvy)

7870. The thoughts of an executive
Are always consecutive
His mighty brain
Gives him no pain
His desk is kept neat
To rest his feet
His loves are various
And secretarious. (Bruce Hutchinson)

7871. The musician (...) invented the sublime art of damaging poetry. (Érik Satie)

7872. The more things change, the more they remain...insane. (Michael Fry and T Lewis) 

7873. During lovemaking, women close their eyes and men look. After, it's the opposite. (Patrick Besson)

7874. "Do Not Touch" must be the scariest thing to read in Braille. (?)

7875. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparison between right and wrong stars. (Alan W. Watts)

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The Frictionary # 832

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7856. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. (Aristotle)

7857. If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully. (Dick Clark)

7858. Intelligence is the only tool that allows man to measure the range of his misfortune. (Pierre Desproges)

7859. The mirror reflects an image. It doesn't lead you astray, it doesn't think. (Fernando Pessoa)

7860. My mirror is strange
reflecting a young man
in an old man's skin. (Positively Wyrde)

7861. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. (Miles Kington)

7862. Weather forecasting is a science that tells us what the weather should have been. (Philippe Bouvard)

7863. A secret can also be a weapon. (Réjean Lévesque)

7864. The brain is a grey area for me, (J. Scott Wilson)

7865. The more things change, the more they remain the same. (Alphonse Karr)

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The Frictionary # 831

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7846. Women who want to become the equals of men show a serious lack of ambition. (Jean-Marc Reiser)

7847. Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men. (Joseph Conrad)

7848. Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. (Tom Robbins)

7849. Friend sometimes is a word empty of meaning, enemy, never. (Victor Hugo)

7850. We forgive others when it suits us. (Cesare Pavese)

7851. When you think about it
Aren't we all
modified organisms? (Réjean Lévesque)

7852. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty". (Theodore Roosevelt)

7853. Q is the only letter with visible genitalia. (Demetri Martin)

7854. In school, they teach the present simple; it would be more useful to teach us the future complicated. (?)

7855. So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony. But if they lie to us it's politics. (Bill Murray)

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The Frictionary # 830

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7836. Facts are always friendly. Every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one much closer to what is true. (Carl Rogers)

7837. The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. (Alfred Adler)

7838. The opened its eyes,/

The sun entered./

The cat closed its eyes,/
the sun stayed there./
That is why, at night,/
when the cat wakes up,/
in the dark, I see/
two pieces of sunlight. (Maurice Carême)

7839. The shadow of the elephant is not heavier than the shadow of the ladybug. (Norwegian proverb)

7840. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. (John Keats)

7841. It is really difficult to tell people you love them...when you really love them. (Tristan Bernard)

7842. They were as incompatible as a sandal and a sock. (Réjean Lévesque)

7843. We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. (Robert Brault)

7844. Everyone who hates speeding tickets, raise your right foot. (?)

7845. Culture: the memory of the others' intelligence. (Pierre Rey)

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The Frictionary # 829

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7826. Love demands infinitely less than friendship. (George Jean Nathan)

7827. Custard: a detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. (Ambrose Bierce)

7828. We mustn't end a voyage, only suspend it. (Bernard Giraudeau)

7829. A blocked path also offers guidance. (Mason Cooley)

7830. I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. (W.H. Auden)

7831. Religion is nothing else but the shadow born by the universe on the intelligence of men. (Victor Hugo)

7832. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do but how we behave when we don't know what to do. (John Holt)

7833. We do not find solitude, we create it. (Marguerite Duras)

7834. The argument for atheism is really very simple - if God created the universe, who or what created God? (?)

7835. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. (Peter DeVries)

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