The Frictionary # 1165

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11166. The natural tendency of the human mind is to believe before knowing. (Gaston Bouthoul)

11167. Fun is a feeling, not an activity. (Catherine Price)

11168. In some restaurants, we call "dish of the day" leftovers from the previous day that cannot wait until the next day. (Philippe Bouvard)

11169. Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. (Walt Whitman)

11170. A word is not the thing, but a lightning bolt in the light of which it can be seen. (Denis Diderot)

11171. It's a struggle to be around him. He doesn't read. He doesn't think about things. He has opinions, but no idea. *(Sue Grafton) *Is she depicting Trump? Maybe not, he takes his opinions from Fox News.

11172. We can laugh about anything as long as it’s funny. (Grégoire Lacroix)

11173. I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. (David Bowie)

11174. The universe is made of protons, neutrons, electrons, and morons. (?)

11175. To philosophize is to learn how to die. (Michel de Montaigne)

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The Frictionary # 1164

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11156. In republics, the people gives its favour, never its trust. (Antoine Rivarol)

11157. Reality doesn't BECOME. It just IS. (Jo Marchant)

11158. Everything sells, provided you buy the buyer. (Mario Roy)

11159. Failing is common, trying is rare. (David Cain)

11160. Philosophers are violent beings who, for lack of having an army at their disposal, subdue the world by locking it up in a system. (Robert Musil)

11161. Until you make the unconscious conscious. It will direct your life and you will call it fate. (Carl Jung)

11162. Money won't make you happy...but everybody wants to find out for themselves. (Zig Ziglar)

11163. The science of the doctor is to find in a patient a sickness that will allow both to live. (Albert Willemetz)

11164. Jumping for joy is good exercise. (?)

11165. All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

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The Frictionary # 1163

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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)

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The Frictionary # 1162

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11136. LAZINESS: one of the seven deadly sins that allows you to avoid committing the other six. (Dany Caulleau)

11137. Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. (Ben Hecht)

11138. The more laws we create, the more criminals we create. (Lao Tsu)

11139. Faith means never having to say "I don't know". (almightygod)

11140. Alcohol is the aspirin of the soul. (Louis Gauthier)

11141. The world is always at war because diplomats and politicians lie to journalists and then believe what they read. (Karl Kraus)

11142. Amnesia: I don’t remember what it means anymore. (Réjean Lévesque)

11143. Shadows can't follow you in the dark. (Dragan the Mighty)

11144. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! (?)

11145. Fear gone, there can be no hatred. (Gandhi)

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The Frictionary # 1161

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11126. The only exact thing in the newspaper is the date. (Coluche)

11127. All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. (William Butler Yeats)

11128. The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swatter. (G.C. Lichtenberg)

11129. Sometimes as an antidote/ to fear of death,/ I eat the stars. (Rebecca Elson)

11130. If you want to go out on the sea without any risk of capsizing, then don’t buy a boat; buy an island. (Marcel Pagnol)

11131. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. (Thomas Pynchon)

11132. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. (Buddha)

11133.  I used to call her Darling, but now I call her collect. (A. Frank Willis)

11134. 'Vegetarian' is an old indian word for 'bad hunter'. (?)

11135. We must not always turn over a new leaf, sometimes it must be ripped off. (Achille Chavée)

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The Frictionary # 1160

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11116. Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. (Jonathan Lockwood Huie)

11117. Weapons are men’s jewels. (Jean Follain)

11118. You can’t be on the same page as someone who has a different book. (C'est la vie)

11119. The more I know about men, the more I love my dog. The more I know about women, the less I love my bitch. (Pierre Desproges)

11120. Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. (Bernard Meltzer)

11121. I wiped my TV screen with an anti-germ wipe and I lost Fox News. (Réjean Lévesque)

11122. The narcissist (...) has no love, no compassion, no rational, objective judgment.(...)He is everything, the world is nothing. (Erich Fromm)  *Does this quote make you think of someone we all know?

11123. Stretched out on the deck, we see the Milky Way and the Milky Way sees us. And that’s our business. (David Gaudreault)

11124. Addiction is giving up EVERYTHING for - one - thing. (?)

11125. I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford, then I want to move in with them. (Phyllis Diller)

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The Frictionary # 1159

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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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The Frictionary # 1158

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11096. The enemy of truth is not lies, it is convictions. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

11097. When you get to the end of your rope - tie a knot in it and hang on. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

11098. Actors must be like poetry, melons, and wines, excellent or they are despicable. (Théophile Gautier)

11099. The thing most needed to predict the future is a good memory. (Robert Brault)

11100. Descartes: Philosopher who thought, therefore he was. (Michel Lauzière)

11101. Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. (John Hardwick)

11102. Art is the prayer of those who do not have faith. (Jacques Godbout)

11103. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. (H.L. Mencken)

11104.If you want to talk to God, stop and pick a nice spot and do it. If you want to see Him, text while driving. (?)

11105. The only vacations that man has are the nine months spent in his mother's womb. (Frédéric Dard)

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The Frictionary # 1157

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11086. Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand. (Tallulah Bankhead)

11087. It takes more passion to get what you don’t have than to keep what you have. (Stendahl)

11088. Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. (Vince Lombardi)

11089. A chicken is the device that an egg uses to produce another egg. (Umberto Eco)

11090. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

11091. Pleasure is the flower that passes; the memory is its lasting perfume. (Jean de Boufflers)

11092. Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. (Oscar Wilde)

11093. If you want something to be done, it’s always better to ask someone who is busy. (Marc Séguin)

11094. Dance like no one's watching. Because everyone is on their phones, so no one is watching. (?)

11095. Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. (Paul Brodeur)

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The Frictionary # 1156

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11076. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. (Owen Meredith)

11077. The heart has prisons that intelligence does not open. (Louis Jouhandeau)

11078. Love is a cannibal (...). It eats friendship. (Stephen King)

11079. There is a pleasure not to be alone but to be able to be. (Pascal Quignard)

11080. Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else. (Bruce Cockburn)

11081. Never moon a werewolf. (Mike Binder)

11082. Politics and the press: two cherished institutions that spoke with tongues so forked they could double for fine dinnerware. (Harlan Coben)

11083. Patience is the virtue of donkeys. (Honoré Daumier)

11084. The speed of time is one second per second. (?)

11085. Stupidity has a certain charm. Ignorance does not. (FRank Zappa)

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The Frictionary # 1155

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11066. Humor is not an escape, but a refuge. (Louise Richer)

11067. Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. (John Dryden)

11068. America is like a melting pot.  The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top. (Charlie King)

11069. Wine: official alcohol of the Bible. (Patrick Lagacé)

11070. Grief is the shadow love casts in the light of loss. (Maria Popova)

11071. If you are able to spend an afternoon doing nothing, in a totally futile way, then you have learned to live. (Lin Yutang)

11072. So-called "stationary bicycles" are in fact unicycles. Although you will not learn this from the so-called "news media". (Dave Barry)

11073. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. (Bob Marley)

11074. The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more. (?)

11075. No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. (Giacomo Leopardi)

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The Frictionary # 1154

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11056. The bravest thing that men do is love women. (Mort Sahl)

11057. Being free is not doing what you want but wanting what you can do. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

11058. People are like mattresses. You start out firm and end up sagging in the middle. (Jan Williams)

11059. A bluish silence/ Floats in the memory of the wind/ When the mountain dreams. (Ombre)

11060. Immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous. (Bertrand Russell)

11061. Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule, they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco)

11062. We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. (Bernard Meltzer)

11063. Boredom entered the world through laziness. (Jean de La Bruyère)

11064. Jumping for joy is good exercise. (?)

11065. Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. (Andrew V. Mason)

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The Frictionary # 1153

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11046. When making an axe, look at the one you are using. (Confucius)

11047. A little boy of three sitin' on the floor/ Looks up and says, "Daddy, what is war?"/ "Son, that's when people fight and die."/ The little boy of three says, "Daddy, why?" (Johnny Cash)

11048. Each tear draws its transparent sorrow. (madeleinebleue)

11049. All progress is experimental. (John Jay Chapman)

11050. Of all workers, they [police] are the only ones who want to sanction their work-related accidents with the death penalty. (Jean Paré)

11051. Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz)

11052. To live is to persist in completing a memory. (René Char)

11053. Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. (Ward Moore)

11054. Are Cheerios donut seeds? (?)

11055. I wonder what the past has in store for us. (Françoise Sagan)

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The Frictionary # 1152

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11036. Time is the reef upon which all of our frail mystic ships are wrecked. (Noel Coward)

11037. The rich: you can see what they have, but you don’t see what they lack. (Augustine of Hippo)

11038. - Did you read Hemingway's book "Across the River and into the Trees"? - No, I didn't even know he played golf. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

11039. Do as the trees do; change your leaves and keep your roots. So, change your ideas, but keep your principles. (Victor Hugo)

11040. In 20 years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn't do than by what you did. (Mark Twain)

11041. Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. (Jorge Luis Borgès)

11042. Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be reinvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. (Martin Amis)

11043. I am not on the left, nor on the right, nor in the center, but above. (Charles De Gaulle)

11044. The most used piece of equipment at the gym is the mirror. (?)

11045. Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. (Bill Clinton)

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The Frictionary #1151

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11026. Patience is sustained by hope; it ignores any kind of despair. (Axel Oxenstierna)

11027. A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window. (Stewart BRand)

11028. Man is the only animal to believe in gods. (Plato)

11029. If it cost you your peace of mind, you overpaid. (Rigel J. Dawson)

11030. What depends on you is whether or not to accept what does not depend on you. (Marcus Aurelius)

11031. What Adam said to Eve/ As they lay in the dark./ Honey, what's making/ That dog out there bark? (Charles Simic)

11032. Basically, the only one who knows whether God exists or not is God himself. (Joël Dicker)

11033. The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. (Alan Watts)

11034. To forgive is to refuse to remain a victim. (?)

11035. Even though the watch has stopped, time continues to go by. (Basque proverb)

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The Frictionary # 1150

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11016. Worse than wolves disguised as sheep are the ones disguised as shepherds. (Carlos A. Rodriguez)

11017. Don’t neglect wearing a mask, even if you’re not sick, you might be ugly. (Pather)

11018. Born Originals, how come it comes to pass that we die Copies? (Edward Young)

11019. Memory is the future of the past. (Paul Valéry)

11020. Tact is the art of putting your foot down without stepping on anyone's toes. (L.J. Peter)

11021. A butterfly emerges/ then flies away/ morning moon. (Issa)

11022. The stream of te true/ is formed by/ drops of doubt. (Maria Popova)

11023.  By reading the paper, people think they know what’s going on in the world. In reality...they only learn what’s going on in the paper. (Philippe Geluck)

11024. Addiction is giving up EVERYTHING for - one - thing. (?)

11025. If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit. (Banksy)

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The Frictionary # 1149

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11006. Without goals, training has no direction. (Nathalie Coughlin)

11007. Old age is when you no longer recognize yourself when you look in the mirror. (Réjean Lévesque)

11008. If you leave me, can I come too? (Cynthia Heimel)

11009. More useless than that would be a machine to watch TV. (Claude Marcil)

11010. Nobody finishes a tube of superglue. Nobody. (Mason Mastrianni)

11011. Baudelaire called it the Spleen/ My grandma called it the blues/ I don't call it, it comes on its own, (Claude Nougaro)

11012. Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom. (James Baldwin)

11013. He who walks straight always finds the road wide enough. (Breton proverb)

11014. How do flat-earthers explain the seasons? (?)

11015. More people believe in belief in God than believe in God. (Daniel C. Dennett)

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The Frictionary # 1148

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10996. The secret of living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. (Tibetan proverb)

10997. You are the music/ while the music lasts. (T.S. Eliot)

10998. I don’t want a tombstone. Time erases everything. Let’s help him. (Catherine Mavrikakis)

10999. Creationism is the belief that God could create the world in 6 days but couldn't find 2 naked people hiding in a garden. (John Fugelsang)

11000. It’s not because there is a rose on the rose bush that the bird lands there: it’s because there are aphids. (Jules Renard)

11001. Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. (Aldous Huxley)

11002. I quite like being alone, and my pleasure is sometimes greater depending on who isn’t there. (Philippe Geluck)

11003. The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. (Brian Herbert)

11004. How do flat-earthers explain the seasons? (?)

11005. The greatest folly of man is to believe that things happen because he desires them. (Laure Conan)

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The Frictionary # 1147

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10986. Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop. (Robert Musil)

10987. If there were a vaccine against love, you should take it. (Thomas R. Wells)

10988. The meaning of life? Shakespeare had it pat: "To be or not to be". The meaning of my life? I am. (Réjean Lévesque)

10989. Compromises are temporary. (Jérôme Garcin)

10990. Finish last in your league and they call you idiot, Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. (Abe Lemons)

10991. I have never believed that man’s freedom consists of doing what he wants, but rather of never doing what he doesn’t want. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

10992. Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. (Fannie Hurst)

10993. The most incomprehensible thing in the world is the patience of the poor. (Léon Bloy)

10994. Cotton candy: parents' enemy. (Jim Gaffigan)

10995. If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist. (Dorothy Day)

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The Frictionary # 1146

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10976. Remember, kid, if the service is free, then YOU are the product. (John Darkow)

10977. Remembering is easy for those who have memory, but forgetting is difficult for those who have heart. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

10978. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce)

10979. Giving a name to a person or a thing is a sacrament, a baptism. (Réjean Lévesque)

10980. People often claim to hunger for the truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. (George R.R. Martin)

10981. All life is an adventure navigating between the unhoped-for and the unexpected. (François Cheng)

10982. 0=the nothing that is. (Robert Kaplan)

10983. Only the skin separates love from friendship. It’s thin. (Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

10984. Monday must be a man. It comes too quickly. (?)

10985. I listened to the voice of doubt and it told me its true name is curiosity. (Micah J. Murray)

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