The Frictionary # 855

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8086. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (John Muir)

8087. A lazy person is someone who doesn't pretend to be working. (Alphonse Allais)

8088. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. (Terry Pratchett)

8089. Will you sign this petition to include "LOVE" in the list of four-letter words? (Réjean Lévesque)

8090. Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world. (Richard Armour)

8091, When the chicken drinks water, it looks at the sky and thanks God. (Congolese proverb)

8092. Did you know

darkness is flat?

Just look at your shadow. (Positively Wyrde)

8093. My wife's mother is descended from royalty if you count the Prince of Darkness. (Brian Kiley)

8094. How come I need a complex, indecipherable password to get on Twitter but only a 4-digit number to remove all my money from an ATM? (Kent Graham)

8095. Happiness must be consumed when it's fresh, you can't store it until later. (Mardy Grothe)

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The Frictionary # 854

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8076. What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. (H.L. Mencken)

8077. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. (Mistinguett)

8078. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. (Henry David Thoreau)

8079. A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. (Bert Leston Taylor)

8080. The bone is the revenge of the fish and the hangover is the wrath of the grapes. (Tristan Bernard)

8081. Coyote wind/ chasing plastic rabbit bags/ through the barbed wire. (Coyote Sings)

8082. Every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

8083. Does the slave who loves his slave life have the life of a slave? (Louis Scutenaire)

8084. Old age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired. (?)

8085. Elections are like TVs, no one knows how to fix them anymore.* (Bill Maher)* But Trump is trying hard.

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The Frictionary # 853

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8066. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin)

8067. To love is not to renounce your freedom, it's giving it meaning. (Marc Levy)

8068. It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. (Jerry Seinfeld)

8069. Yes, I accept reality, but that does not imply endorsement. (Robert Brault)

8070. People become heroes only when they can't do otherwise. (Paul Claudel)

8071. I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils. (Ellen Goodman)

8072. Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie. (Christina Stead)

8073. Celebrity (...) An instant of notoriety that news gives to cinnamon bears, hockey players, and to the slightly retarded. (Pierre Foglia)

8074. Every day, do something that makes you happy until it becomes a habit. (?)

8075. Even when you want to leave a woman, you need her. (José Artur)

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The Frictionary # 852

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8056. Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. (Christina Rossetti)

8057. To dream is to refuse to choose between what is and what is not. (Jean-Éthier Blais)

8058. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. (Calvin Trillin)

8059. The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded. (George Orwell)

8060. Politics is the means men without principles take to control men without memory. (Voltaire)

8061. Things men should know before getting married: 1- You're always wrong. 2- You're always sorry. 3- She never wants "just one" of your fries. (Abe Yospe)

8062. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. (Bryan White)

8063. A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. (Anatole France)

8064. Rice milk? I didn't even know rice had nipples. (Demetri Martin)

8065. The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. (William Safire)

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The Frictionary # 851

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8046. Man is the only animal who blushes. Or needs to. (Mark Twain)

8047. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. (Robert Frost)

8048. The color of truth is grey. (André Gide)

8049. Faith just
another face
for desire. (Positively Wyrde)

8050. What I find most interesting in jazz is that it's a good word for Scrabble. (Philippe Geluck)

8051. To love is to lose control. (Paulo Coelho)

8052. We are not buying ink from printer manufacturers, but we are buying printers from ink manufacturers. (Michael Lasky)

8053. The silence of slippers is more dangerous than the noise of boots. (Martin Niemöller)

8054. The "Blessed Virgin Mary" was hoping for a girl. (?)

8055. Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.* (Robert A. Heinlein)
* Think Evangelicals...

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