The Frictionary # 1159

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

11106. Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. (Jonathan Kellerman)

11107. Instinct dictates duty, and intelligence provides pretexts to evade it. (Marcel Proust)

11108. Boredom is time laid bare, hollowed of meaning, blank as death. (Maria Popova)

11109. Poetry lives on perpetual insomnia. (René Char)

11110. In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. (Ivan Illich)

11111. In democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism it's your count that votes. (Mogens Jallberg)

11112. You go to bed with your wife, you wake up with your mother. (Occitan proverb)

11113. Dogs are pleasers, owned by needy people. Cats are independent, like their staff. (Samantha Covington)

11114. Religions: successful mafias. (?)

11115. Half of the politicians are good for nothing. The others will do anything. (Coluche)

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