The Frictionary # 842

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7956. Most institutions demand unqualified faith, but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. (Robert K. Merton)

7957. After the hurricane is gone, where do people put all that plywood? (George Carlin)

7958. Death wouldn't have any meaning if life had one. (Malcolm de Chazal)

7959. Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life - except religion. (Christopher Hitchens)

7960. The horizon underlines infinity. (Victor Hugo)

7961. If you teach a man to fish, he will spend a bunch of money on new fishing gear that he'll use once and then leave in his garage for ten years. (Eli Grober)

7962. People who know five languages are generally unpleasant in all five. (Billy Tellier)

7963. If the real world is orange juice, then art is the orange-juice concentrate. (Martin Mull)

7964. "Do Not Touch" must be the scariest thing to read in Braille. (?)

7965. Love dies only when growth stops. (Pearl S. Buck)

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The Frictionary # 841

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7946. Conservatives, (...) are obsessed with fetuses from conception to nine months, but after that they have no interest in you. (George Carlin)

7947. You know what had a nervous system but died of a human virus -  we forgot to save it - and had beautiful and sad eyes? Common sense. (Marc Séguin)

7948. Before saying something, be sure that silence is not more important. (Marcel Marceau)

7949. Health tip: Don't get married and have children. (Julius Sharpe)

7950. Those stuck in the past have no future. (Mardy Grothe)

7951. Neighborly love comes less easily to Christians than faith. (Pierre Foglia)

7952, Love, and do what you want. (Augustine of Hippo (a.k.a Saint Augustine)

7953. Art is when you feel happy and it's not your meds. (Felice Schillaci)

7954. My superiority complex is better than yours. (?)

7955. No one who has wandered the world alone has ever confused it with traveling. (Robert Brault)

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The Frictionary # 840

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7936. Who am I
To deny
That maybe
God is me? (Piet Hein)

7937. Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor. (William Arthur Ward)

7938. The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. (Karl Kraus)

7939. It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. (Charles A, Jaffe)

7940. Love affairs are like wild mushrooms. You only know if they are of the good or the bad species when it's too late. (Tristan Bernard)

7941. Last night, I had Chinese food and for the first time ever, I had an accurate Fortune Cookie. It said, "You will be hungry in 20 minutes". (Brian Kiley)

7942. Do all roads lead back from Rome? (veronirique)

7943. The poets made all the words, and therefore language is the archives of history. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

7944, All skulls wear a smile. (Réjean Lévesque)

7945. A key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. (Terry Pratchett)

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The frictionary # 839

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7926. The problem in life is that we are convinced that we tell the truth when we say what we think.* (Sacha Guitry)
* Particularly true of Trumpers...

7927. Thank God we no longer have stupid children. Today's kids all have "learning disabilities". (George Carlin)

7928. Erasers slowly sacrifice their lives for our mistakes. (Shower Thoughts)

7929. The memory is reverse hope. We look at the bottom of the well like we stared at the top of the tower. (Gustave Flaubert)

7930. Time makes room
for going and coming home
and in time's womb
begins all ending. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

7931. If your train's on the wrong track, every station you come to is the wrong station. (Bernard Malamud)

7932. Morality often is a passport to slander. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

7933. Among the porcupines, rape is unknown. (Gregory Clark)

7934. The past tense of "fit" is "fat". (?)

7935. There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. (Carson McCullers)

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The Frictionary # 838

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7916. When enough people share a delusion, it loses its status as a psychosis and gets a religious tax exemption. (Ronald de Sousa)

7917. The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. (Robert Brault)

7918. Work pays in the future. Laziness pays cash. (Jacques Dutronc)

7919. The miser and the pig are of no use until dead. (French proverb)

7920. I used to call her Darling, but now I call her collect. (A. Frank Willis)

7921. Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety. (E.M. Cioran)

7922. Night will come soon and dark solitude.
I'll sit by the fire and watch
the wood of fate burn: it takes
many years to turn to ash. (Lou Lipsitz)

7923. It usually takes two people to make one of them angry. (L.J. Peter)

7924. Money can't buy happiness. But poverty can't buy anything. (?)

7925. Modesty is when you tell lies. (Tom Holt)

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