The Frictionary # 929

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8826. -That telescope (Webb) will show us where we come from. - How about where we're going? (Brooks Riley "Catspeak)

8827. Life is like a hot-air balloon. To go higher, you need to unballast and throw overboard all that is preventing you from rising. (Raphaëlle Giordano)

8828. Liberalism is free parking at the supermarket but pay parking at the hospital. (Libre_Insolent)

8829. A muffin is a bald cupcake. (Jim Gaffigan)

8830. After you die, the spirit leaves the body, but with the idiots, it happens while they're alive. (Philippe Geluck)

8831. You can wander a loneliness alone, but it takes two to explore a solitude. (Robert Brault)

8832. Even masochists end up confessing when tortured. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

8833. Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. (Toni Morrison)

8834. When a man talks sex to a woman, it's harassment. When a woman does it to a man, it's $3,95 a minute. (?)

8835. The sealed aspirin does not remember the willow/ the supermarket does not remember the barnyard. (Rodney Jones)

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The Frictionary # 928

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8816. Love is a decision - not an emotion. (Lao Tzu)

8817. I know only three side-doors to the cathedral of consciousness, (...) poetry, children's books, and Bach. (Maria Popova)

8818. Winter magic/ It snows stars/ In the arms of the wind. (Ombre)

8819. Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. (Walter Lippmann)

8820. Dream becomes real when reality has no other choice. (Stéphane Laporte)

8821. [Poop]: the other dark matter. (Lina Zeldovich)

8822. When it snows a lot, it's like silence falling. (Félix Leclerc)

8823. The average person thinks he isn't. (Larry Lorenzini)

8824. Pigeon: Donald Trump with feathers. (Jean-Michel Anctil)

8825. Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. (William Osler)

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The Frictionary # 927

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8806. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. (William Pitt)

8807. I'd like to know the music whose beat makes my dog's tail wag. (Yvan Audouard)

8808. Life is like a camel, you can make it do anything, except back up. (Marcelene Cox)

8809. The night is perhaps only the eyelid of the day. (Omar Khayam)

8810. Be happy, and a reason will come along. (Robert Brault)

8811. The difference between hunting and war is that in hunting we take no prisoners. (Philippe Geluck)

8812. Accordion: An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. (Ambrose Bierce)

8813. Music is the best means we have of digesting time. (Igor Stravinsky)

8814. Words are free. It's how we use them that may cost you. (?)

8815. What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out come sighs, laughter, and dreams. (Nikos Kazantzakis)

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The Frictionary # 926

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8796. The only people who don't change their minds are either incompetent or dead. (Everett Dirkson)

8797. Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

8798. Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back. (Thomas R. Dewar)

8799. God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. (Jacques Deval)

8800. The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it.* (George Orwell) * This applies to the majority of Trumpers.

8801. The rain falls like we fall in love; it ignores the forecasts. (Martin Page)

8802. How to fold a fitted sheet. Step 1 - Give up. (Benjamin Wallace)

8803, Being a scholar is, most of all, knowing a lot of questions. (Denis Blondin)

8804. The tooth fairy has a full set of dentures. (Réjean Lévesque)

8805. It's hard to hold your head up, when you're kneeling down to pray. (Joe Elliott)

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The frictionary # 925

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8786. Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. (Charles Spurgeon)

8787. It is to do it honor to get up after the sun did. (Yvan Audouard)

8788. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

8789. The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. (Freya Stark)

8790. Some men get only what they deserve, the others are single. (Sacha Guitry)

8791. Time is the raw material of creation. (Kevin Ashton)

8792. Notoriety is when they notice your presence, celebrity is when they notice your absence. (Georges Wolinski)

8793. The past is a pebble in my shoe. (Edgar Allen Poe)

8794. I used to have superpowers, but the psychiatrist took them all away. (?)

8795. A worker's week has seven days, the lazy person's has seven tomorrows. (French proverb)

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