The Frictionary # 836

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

7896. The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. (Dorothy L. Sayers)

7897. The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. (E. Joseph Cossman)

7898. We like animals because they do not lie. That is why man has enslaved them; they reminded him of the truth. (Henry de Montherlant)

7899. Listen to silence. It has so much to say. (Rumi)

7900. Criticizing a belief is not racism. (Maryam Namazie)

7901. Nature recycles itself. History repeats itself. Religion has faith in itself. Technology creates itself. Humanity loves itself. (Mark Putzke)

7902. The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)

7903. As the gods in olden stories
turned mortals into laurel trees and crows
to teach them some kind of lesson,
so we were turned into Americans
to learn something about loneliness. (Tony Hoagland)

7904. Coconuts are mammals because they have hair and produce milk. (?)

7905. Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity. (Polly Bergen)

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