The Frictionary # 980

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9336. The heart rarely lies, but we don't like to listen to it. (Denis Diderot)

9337. I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. (Billy Connolly)

9338. War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. (Karl Kraus)

9339. Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a snake. (Jon Stewart)

9340. Birds sing in all languages. (madeleinebleue)

9341. Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee. (David Frost)

9342. One step back, one step forward. It is in this interval that we can measure the length of our chains. And dream of breaking them. (Marc Séguin)

9343. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. (Ernst Berg)

9344. To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential. (?)

9345. Descartes: Philosopher who thought, therefore he was. (Michel Lauzière)

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The Frictionary # 973

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9266. A novel is a mirror out for a ride on a highway. (Stendhal)

9267. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. (Arthur Miller)

9268. What Americans excel in is ignoring their ignorance. Some are even proud of it. (Réjean Lévesque)

9269. The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

9270. What expresses joy the best? Dance. (Réjean Lévesque)

9271. The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. (Jean-Paul Kauffmann)

9272. Why can't women be priests? Is the penis the router's antenna that allows a wireless wi-fi connection to God? (Boucar Diouf)

9273. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. (Leonard Cohen)

9274. Who picks up after seeing eye dogs? (?)

9275. Isn't the present moment the exact middle point of infinity? (Varoujan Doneyan)

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The Frictionary # 970

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9236. Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. (Channing Pollock)

9237. The promises of politicians bind only those who receive them. (Charles Pasqua)

9238. The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. (Jim Hightower)

9239. Ostrich: the only animal officially endowed with political sense. (Pierre Daninos)

9240. What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. (Edward Langley)

9241. What the people want to hear is people who listen to them. (François Avard & Daniel Gagnon)

9242. World's Shortest Pessimistic Poem: Hope?/ Nope. (Robert Zend)

9243. Yielding to your internal rage is the opposite of being free. (Marie Laberge)

9244. No one makes a bigger deal about driving to work than fire trucks. (funnyoneliners)

9245. The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. (B.B. King)

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The Frictionary # 901

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8546. Courage is a love affair with the unknown. (Osho)

8547. A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once and by car forever after. (Peter De Vries)

8548. To kill time, after all, is only self-defense. (Marc Brillat-Savarin)

8549. I see music as fluid architecture. (Joni Mitchell)

8550. No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as the dog does. (Christopher Morley)

8551. The time it takes to learn how to live and it's already too late. (Louis Aragon)

8552. I came back home/ very very late/ I lost my shadow. (Réjean Lévesque)

8553. The same people who think climate change isn't real think wrestling is. (Julius Sharpe)

8554. How do they milk sheep? Bring out a new iPhone and charge $1000. for it. (?)

8555. The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. (Morris Mandel)

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The Frictionary # 900

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8536. Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. (Margaret Atwood)

8537. Be like a tree/ and let the dead leaves/ drop. (Rumi)

8538. Time isn't made of moments; it contains moments. (Sarah Manguso)

8539. Loss is not as bad as wanting more. (Lao Tzu)

8540. Never regret anything that made you smile. (Mark Twain)

8541. Nowadays, everything is done to help the handicapped...even TV can be accessed by the mentally handicapped. (Patrick Timsit)

8542. To assert dignity is to lose it. (Rex Stout) 

8543. Children have a sixth sense. They can sense immediately and from a distance if you are resting. (Laetitia Castwa)

8544. Need to get rid of unwanted junk during the holidays? Put it in Amazon boxes and leave it on your front porch. (?)

8545. Life is so short...You must walk slowly. (Thai proverb)

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The Frictionary # 875

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8286. The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. (Carl Reiner)

8287. I am what I am, Nevertheless, I am not what I think. You follow? (Yvan Audouard)

8288. ...this life, nobody can contain/ or outlast it,/ and who knows/ if stars know what love is/ or if God remembers anything/ beyond that first loneliness, that first division/ between water/ and light. (B.J. Buckley)

8289. Poor people are hungry and rich people have an appetite. (Luis Sepulveda)

8290. Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, controls people, deludes people. (Mary Alice McKinney)

8291. We travel, not to change places, but to change ideas. (Hippolyte Taine)

8292. The most impressive scene in any spy movie is in Casino Royale when James Bond is in a hotel shower and knows immediately how to use it. (Sophia Benoit)

8293. Failure is success in progress. (Albert Einstein)

8294. Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. (?)

8295. Fraternity has no worse enemy than equality. Fraternity means helping one another; equality means being detrimental to one another. (Albert Brie)

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The Frictionary # 867

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8206. We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises. (Cyril Connoly)

8207. The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. (Eng's Principle)

8208. You can have the last word with a woman, as long as it is yes. (Alfred de Musset)

8209. Boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear. (Daphne du Maurier)

8210. Poetry, that lovely backdoor to consciousness. (Maria Popova)

8211. Irony: people smoking near the entrance of the hospital. (Réjean Lévesque)

8212. By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. (Phyllis Diller)

8213. Willful ignorance is like stabbing truth in the back or maybe even shooting it in the heart. (Mardy Grothe)

8214. I like how celery has dental floss built right in. (?)

8215. Faith will move mountains, yes: mountains of absurdities. (André Gide)

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The Frictionary # 866

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8196. What is time? Things change, and time is how we keep track. (James Gleick)

8197. Words/ are a mechanism/ of containment. (Positively Wyrde)

8198. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. (Henri Bergson)

8199. Among all the episodes, there is not one where you see RinTinTin poop. (Jean-Marie Gourio)

8200. Adventure is just bad planning. (Roald Amundsen)

8201. The best time in life is spent by saying, "It's too soon", then, "It's too late". (Gustave Flaubert)

8202. The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. (Joseph Collins)

8203. The ear is the path to the heart. (Voltaire)

8204. Sorry, I can't go to school tomorrow. I fractured my motivation. (?)

8205. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. (Vince Lombardi)

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The Frictionary # 381

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3726. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. (Paul Boese)

3727. Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision. (Randall Worley)

3728. I prefer people who say "no" to those who say "yes, but..." (Jacques Dutronc)

3729. Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truths to deceive the public. (Vilhjalmur Stefansson)

3730. Sex education maybe a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. (Bill Cosby)

3731. Medecine, in the last century, has made constant progress, inventing thousands of new diseases. (Louis Scutenaire)

3732. Looks like you've got it made - as long as it's made in China. (Mike Baldwin (Cornered))

3733. Life is a balance between rest and movement. (Osho)

3734. If you don't know where you're going, then you can never get lost. (?)

3735. She stole his heart away
Because she didn't have any. (Réjean Lévesque)

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