The Frictionary # 1163

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

11146. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. (Oliver Goldsmith)

11147. Man is not the only one to think, but he is the only one to think that he is not an animal. (Pascal Picq)

11148. He has Van Gogh's ear for music. (Billy Wilder)

11149. The two great secrets of happiness: pleasure and forgetting. (Alfred de Musset)

11150. It is not given to the human heart to love less in order to love equally. (Robert Brault)

11151. Democracy is the dictatorship of ignorance. (Plato)

11152. It is with narrow souled as with narrow necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. (Alexander Pope)

11153. Every time a dictatorship comes to power somewhere, the first thing it does is change the school books. (Jacques Lacoursière)

11154. You never realise what you have till it's gone...Toilet paper is a good example. (?)

11155. Never disturb your present for a past that has no future. (Sanjay Sharma)

That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. Subscribe and receive this free weekly blog in your in-box. Have a great week!