The Frictionary # 872

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8256. Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. (Arnold H. Glasow)

8257. Acts have their being in the witness. (Cormac McCarthy)

8258. The old do not move so much/ Their motions have too many wrinkles,/ their world is too small./ From the bed to the window, then from the bed to the rocking chair/ and then from the bed to the bed. (Jacques Brel)

8259. When you have a Ph.D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses. Gregory Benford)

8260. Bricks are just domesticated rocks. (Julie Resigned)

8261. Poetry is a religion without hope. (Jean Cocteau)

8262. Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. (Betteridge's Law of Headlines - Ian Betteridge)

8263. Trump is Woody Allen without the humor. (Peggy Noonan)

8264. Auctioneers are the original rappers. (?)

8265. It is OK to fall in love but you must be able to get back up. (Jean-Michel Ribes)

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The Frictionary # 871

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8246. Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. (William Golding)

8247. The young always have the same problems - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They now have solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. (Quentin Crisp)

8248. Happiness cannot exist without partial amnesia. (Philippe Bouvard)

8249. Seeking a moment/ I draw the breath from my soul/ you count syllables. (Christopher Moore)

8250. Indifference gives a false air of superiority. (Joseph 

8251. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. (Alfred North Whitehead)

8252. The first part of life is spent desiring the second; the second regretting the first. (Alphonse Karr)

8253. Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. (Milan Kundera)

8254. On which day did God make all the fossils? (?)

8255. Wedding gifts: popular form of familial terrorism. (Pierre Bordage)

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The Frictionary # 870

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8236. We talk on principle, but we act on interest. (Walter Savage Landor)

8237. Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

8238. Buying a house is the biggest purchase most Americans will ever make. Having a baby is like buying six houses. Except that they don't increase in value, you can't sell them and after 16 years they'll probably say they hate you. (Jonathan Last)

8239. You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. (Shimon Peres)

8240. The vase gives void a shape, and music gives it to silence. (Georges Braque)

8241. You have to be odd to be number one. (Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss)

8242. Learn to compromise/ the future is in tact/ but not intact/ it has been infected with hopes. (Réjean Lévesque)

8243. We are never too old, but we are always too young to realize it. (Robert Brault)

8244. Leaves are really just solar panels for trees. (?)

8245. The need for certainty has always been stronger than the need for truth. (Gustave Le Bon)

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The Frictionary #869

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8226. A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat. (Rollo May)

8227. Believe me - the Government will help you any time it needs you. (Gerhard Kocher)

8228. Deep down, an ice cube is water that's learned to swim. (Philippe Geluck)

8229. The closest I get/ the bigger they seem/ mountains and questions. (Coyote Sings)

8230. In fidelity, there is some laziness, some fear, some premeditation, some appeasement, some tiredness, and sometimes some fidelity. (Étienne Rey)

8231. Mercy is the conscious choice to be kind when one can be cruel. Without cruelty, there is no mercy. (Maria Popova)

8232. Days and months are the travellers of eternity. So are the years that pass by. (Bashô)

8233. Latino coffee= coffee olé. (Réjean Lévesque)

8234. One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find why. (?)

8235. Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. (James Randi)

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