The Frictionary # 955

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9086. Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. (R.A. Salvatore)

9087. Each tear traces its transparent sorrow. (madeleinebleue)

9088. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. (Arundhati Roy)

9089. Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. (Voltaire)

9090. Die, v.: to stop sinning suddenly. (Elbert Hubbard)

9091. The past scares me, I'm afraid of the future. Fortunately, there is the present. (Philippe Geluck)

9092. Opinions are like assholes - everyone's got one, but nobody wants to look at the other guy's. (Hal Hickman)

9093. On the mirror/ of the pond/ the moon displays her scar. (Charles Lechesnier)

9094. Never Never Never tell someone you are patient. They will test you. (redpawn3)

9095. Nothing is more stubborn and tenacious than hope, especially if unfounded. Hope is a weed. (Lydie Salvayre)

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The Frictionary # 954

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9076. The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness. (Chinese proverb)

9077. Politicians are like holes in Swiss cheese: the more cheese, the more holes, and unfortunately, the more holes, well, the less cheese. (Coluche)

9078. We love what cannot last/ a bloom/ a butterfly/ a bliss/ a life. (Positively Wyrde)

9079. By constantly believing, we forget to doubt. (Patrick Vandermaesen)

9080. The secret to happiness is not falling, but staying in love. (Mardy Grothe)

9081. Tolerance should only be a transitory state; it should lead to respect. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe)

9082. England's greatest king was Queen Victoria. (Albert Brie)

9083. If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole? (Tom Robbins)

9084. The human brain is awesome. It functions 24 hours a day from the day you were born and only stops when you take an exam or fall in love. (?)

9085. He knows peace who has forgotten desire. (Bhagavad-Gita)

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The Frictionary # 953

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9066. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. (Nelson Mandela)

9067. The heart doesn't have wrinkles, only scars. (Roger Vigny)

9068. Admitting Error clears the Score/ And proves you Wiser than before. (Arthur Guiterman)

9069. Freedom begins where ignorance ends. (Victor Hugo)

9070. The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another. (Sojourner Truth*) * Born Isabella Baumfree.

9071. Tolerance: Ability to endure what we cannot forbid. (Georges Elgozy)

9072. Most turtles are probably introverts. (Demetri Martin)

9073. I need so much time to do nothing that I don't have enough left to work. (Pierre Reverdy)

9074. I used to be indecisive; now I'm not so sure. (?)

9075. Regret has a purpose. It's like the oil light on the dashboard of your life, telling you something needs to be fixed. (Eric Barker)

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The Frictionary # 952

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9056. The chief qualification of a mass (authoritarian) leader has become unending infallibility, he can never admit an error. (Hannah Arendt)

9057. When I see all those faithful couples, I say to myself that anybody can make a mistake. (Roland Bacri)

9058. I've solved the problem of world hunger: Feed the homeless to the poor. (Jordan Hardgrove)

9059. The only real prison is fear, and the only freedom is freedom from fear. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

9060. An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it. (Marilyn Vos Savant)

9061. You exist in time, but you belong to eternity. (Osho)

9062. A grammar nazi would be someone who would (...) make you wear a yellow semicolon and then ship you to an extermination camp. (Peter Flom)

9063. The universe is expanding. So am I. Redshift? (Réjean Lévesque)

9064. My great grandfather died, my grandfather died, my father died... I'm afraid it's hereditary. (?)

9065. Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

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The Frictionary # 951

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9046. Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. (Thomas Merton)

9047. Marriage is two people solving problems that they wouldn't have had alone. (Sacha Guitry)

9048. Origami.../ the way you fold/ and unfold your heart. (Kim Talon)

9049. Never postpone until tomorrow what you can have someone else do. (François Cavanna) Sometimes attr. to Pierre Dac.

9050. Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. (Jack Lemmon)

9051. A diplomat is one who turns his tongue seven times in his mouth before remaining silent. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

9052. In general, my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. (Erma Bombeck)

9053. Man is the only animal making promises. That is why he is the only one not keeping them. (Dominique Jamet)

9054. Make yourself at home! Clean my kitchen. (?)

9055. Amnesty: a writ by which sovereigns most often forgive injustice they have committed. (Pierre Véron)

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