The Frictionary # 883

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8366. The best time to make friends is before you need them. (Ethel Barrymore)

8367. Doubt is homage rendered to hope. (Lautréamont -aka Isidore Lucien Ducasse)

8368. Monkey, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. (Ambrose Bierce)

8369. We measure monuments by their shadow, books by their critics, men by their enemies. (Edmond & Jules de Goncourt)

8370. There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. (Maya Angelou)

8371. I am tired of museums, cemeteries of the arts. (Alphonse de Lamartine)

8372. What's the use of having more than one string to your bow when you have only one arrow. (Réjean Lévesque)

8373. In fiction, the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

8374. On average, a human being spends approximately two years of his life using the toilet. Multiply that number by 3.7 if he owns a smartphone. (?)

8375. A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims...but accomplices. (George Orwell)

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