The Frictionary # 898

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8516. Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. (Francis Bacon)

8517. It is sometimes enough to fake courage to discover we really have it. Sorry but that doesn't work for intelligence. (Grégoire Lacroix)

8518. We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. (Alan Bennett)

8519. Being funny is not being happy. Being funny is to look at unhappiness in the eyes and stick out your tongue at it. (Stéphane Laporte)

8520. We must begin to wonder/ if the earth wants us. (Positively Wyrde)

8521. Bulls don't win bullfights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do. (Norman A. Augustine)

8522. Mistakes pass, only truth remains. (Denis Diderot)

8523. [Golf on TV]: televised Nyquil. (Scott Feschuk)

8524. The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor, (?)

8525. - Is everything illusory? - No, it just seems that way. (Bob Thaves (Frank and Ernest)) 

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The Frictionary # 897

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8506. Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. (Flannery O'Connor)

8507. Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. (L.J. Peter)

8508. How can we believe those who doubt? (Christian Chalbanis)

8509. Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. (Evan Esar)

8510. Grey is the color of truth. (André Gide)

8511. Tolerance is the assumption of superiority. (Wendell Wilkie)

8512. Shyness is a form of politeness. (Jacques Dutronc)

8513. Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half-truths. (Edgar A. Shoaff)

8514. My mother taught me about osmosis. She said, "Shut up and eat your supper." (?)

8515. Any emotion, if sincere, is involuntary. (Mark Twain)

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The Frictionary # 896

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8496. Each moment is a place you've never been. (Mark Strand)

8497. A phone is used for everything, except talking on the phone. (Stéphane Laporte)

8498. One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. (John Burroughs)

8499. We must distrust poets. They have the reputation of guessing right. (Jean Pellerin)

8500. The world is a globe - the farther you sail. the closer to home you are. (Terry Pratchett)

8501. Women are like Spanish houses which have many doors and few windows. It is easier to penetrate them than to see in them. (Jean Paul Richter)

8502. I am not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are. (Groucho Marx)

8503. Life is a river, more or less long, with its share of impurities, that will flow in the sea of eternity. (Réjean Lévesque)

8504. You only live once? False. You live every day, you only die once. (?)

8505. Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed. (Elizabeth Gilbert)

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The Frictionary # 895

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8486. We all have our limitations. But when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. (Robert Brault)

8487. Jealous people destroy what they are unable to create. (Paul Guth)

8488. Having a 2-year-old is like having a blender with no lid. (Jerry Seinfeld)

8489. The further one pursues knowledge, the less one knows. (Lao Tzu)

8490. We have two lives. The second one begins the day we realize you only have one. (Confucius)

8491. Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imagination. (Laurence Ferlinghetti)

8492. When a guy doesn't love you, he tells you. When a girl doesn't love you, she tells everybody. (Marie-Lise Pilote)

8493. I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. (Steven Pearl)

8494. An influencer is a person who does like everyone else, but first. (WagGromit)

8495. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. (Brian Warner aka Marilyn Manson) 

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