The Frictionary # 870

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

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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