The Frictionary # 1140

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10916. There are only two great currents in the history of humanity: the baseness that makes conservatives and the envy that makes revolutionaries. (Edmond & Jules de Goncourt)

10917. Social media is training us to compare our lives, instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is depressed. (Bill Murray)

10918. To translate is to transfer a liquor from a wide-necked vase into a narrow-necked vase. A lot gets lost. (Victor Hugo)  Note that this quote is a translation...

10919. Chihuahuas have no idea they're a tiny dog that looks like a roast chicken. (Dwight Slade)

10920. Faith: not "wanting" to know what is true. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

10921. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. (Joey Adams)

10922. The beautiful is the truth, well-dressed. (Honoré de Balzac)

10923. A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided—it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again. (Josh Billings)

10924. If you don't let the past die, then it won't let you live. (?)

10925. If war has an opposite, gardens might sometimes be it. (Rebecca Solnit)

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The Frictionary # 1139

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10906. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. (Theodor S. Geisel aka Dr. Seuss)

10907. The wicked believe they are doing us a lot of good by not hurting us. (Aesop)

10908. A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved except in memory. (Leonard Nimoy)

10909. The most common disease among politicians is amnesia. (André Frossard)

10910. Time is the only critic without ambition. (John Steinbeck)

10911. Each wave knows it is the sea. (Lao Tzu)

10912. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart...if you hate me, I'll always be in your mind. (William Shakespeare)

10913. Time must have something to be ashamed of to run away so quickly. (Sylvain Tesson)

10914. The sheep feared the wolf all his life, but it was the shepherd who ate it. (Georgian proverb) * The country.

10915. It's a terrible thing when a fool with power fools with power. (Kelly Barnhill)

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The Frictionary # 1138

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10896. Modern history is written with prejudices, ancient history with scissors. (Maurice Joly)

10897. Life is not like a box of chocolates - Life is more like a wad of gum stuck to the bottom of your favorite pair of shoes. The more you try to clean up the mess, the stickier it becomes. (Rhonda Thompson)

10898. Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. (Liv Ullman)

10899. Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. (Sinclair Lewis)

10900. The soul has illusions like a bird has wings; this is what sustains it. (Victor HUgo)

10901. Mirror: I am silver and exact, I have no preconception, / whatever I see I swallow immediately/ (...) I am not cruel, only truthful - (Sylvia Plath)

10902. Unlike the brain, the stomach warns us when it is empty. (Buddhist proverb)

10903. Remember, Jesus wasn't a Christian. (Theo Huxtable)

10904. Men cause 100% of unwanted pregnacies. (?)

10905. The tree is this power that slowly marries the sky. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

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The Frictionary # 1137

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10886. It’s not that life is short, it’s that time passes quickly... (Henri Jeanson)

10887. The only real argument for marriage is that it remains the best method for getting acquainted. (Heywood Broun)

10888. When an atheist prays, it is hope speaking. (Réjean Lévesque)

10889. It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. (Jim Rohn)

10890. Reading is being the spectator, the director and the actor at the same time. (Stéphane Laporte)

10891. To keep young kids behaving in a car road trip, have a bag of their favoritecandy, and throw a piece out the window every time they misbehave. (Kevin Kelly)

10892. The turkey is a peacock that did not succeed. (Roland Dorgelès)

10893. [Humanity] is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred million galaxies. (Stephen Hawking)

10894. Whenever I'm in trouble, I think, "What would Jesus do?" Then I pretend to be dead and disappear for three days. (?)

10895. The difference between democracy and dictatorship is that in democracy, we choose our dictators. (John Joos)

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