The Frictionary # 937

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8906. A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. (John Burroughs)

8907. The film producers all have Rolls-Royces because, in the subway, you have to pay cash.. (Michel Audiard)

8908. We are of the sea/ as its red tides/ follow the moon/ & though the sea is one/ it is we alone/ who know the islands/ of loneliness. (Positively Wyrde)

8909. The word is thought's garment, and the explanation is its armor. (Antoine de Rivarol)

8910. The goal of meditation isn't to control your thoughts, it's to stop letting them control you. (Dan Millman)

8911. Happiness for two lasts the time it takes to count to three. (Sacha Guitry)

8912. The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments - the very lower bowel of music. (Peter DeVries)

8913. There are prizes we receive, there are those we deserve. (Pierre Légaré)

8914. If you're looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror. (?)

8915. When people treat you like they don't care, believe them. (Oprah Winfrey)

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The Frictionary # 936

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8896. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. (David Whyte)

8897. Love is a game that two can play, but we only had one joystick. (Jay Scott)

8898. We only really betray those we love. (Maurice Sachs)

8899. Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way. (Lester B. Pearson)

8900. When you look at the sizes of clothes, you can say that reality really exceeds fiction. (Patrick Huard)

8901. Do you value life? Then waste not time, for it is the stuff of which life is made. (Brian Tracy)

8902. Generally, intelligent people are not courageous and courageous people are not intelligent. (Charles De Gaulle)

8903. It is a kind of love, is it not?/ How the cup holds the tea,/ And the lovely repetition of stairs,/ And what is more generous than a window? (Pat Schneider)

8904. In the Egyptian pantheon, Isis is the goddess of the family, Amam is the god of the big ego, and Waswas god of the past. (Réjean Lévesque)

8905. God made man because he loves stories. (Yiddish proverb)

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The Frictionary # 935

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8886. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

8887. We are a forest of cacti thirsting for poetry. (Annie Dubé)

8888. If I should die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

8889. People could learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. (Carl Jung)

8890. Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. (Samuel Butler)

8891. It is through your errors that you learn, not by being right. (Jean Barbeau)

8892. The kilt is an unrivaled garment for fornication and diarrhea. (John Masters)

8893. Man is Earth's virus. (Réjean Lévesque)

8894. Sports is the toy department of life. (Jimmy Cannon)

8895. Sleep is the last space without ads. (Lorraine Schein)

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The Frictionary # 934

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8876. Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit. (Nancy Kress)

8877. The machine will never say that the machine is part of the problem. (Patrick Lagacé)

8878. What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. (Richard Wilbur)

8879. The official motto of the US is "In God We Trust". I think God is an acronym for "Good Old Dollar". (Réjean Lévesque)

8880. And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his? (Robert G. Ingersoll)

8881. Money, it comes and it goes, but when it comes it's a go. (Smaïn)

8882. Most people don't grow up, (...) they honor their credit cards, they find parking places, they marry, they have the nerve to have children. Not really, they get older. (Maya Angelou)

8883. If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. (Voltaire)

8884. In the dictionary is the word "indefinable", but it is defined there...I don't like it when they mess with me. (?)

8885. Love can only end in indifference. If it ends in hate, it hasn't ended. (Robert Brault) 

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