The Frictionary # 1176

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11286. We know that we are going towards death and, faced with this inevitable occurrence, we have only one instrument: laughter. (Umberto Eco)

11287. That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. (Ray Bradbury)

11288. Man created word/ and has been misunderstood/ ever since. (Positively Wyrde)

11289. I never take the beaten path. I am against all forms of violence. (Réjean Lévesque)

11290. If the lord had meant us to have faith, he'd have given us lobotomies. (Zlatko)

11291. You are what you eat and who wants to be a lettuce? (Peter Burns)

11292. People make a big deal about the hundred and one Dalmatians, and how they were saved from Cruella de Vil, but rarely do you hear about the hundred-and-second Dalmatian. (Christopher Gangemi)

11293. There would be fewer widows if men married women their age. (Philippe Bouvard)

11294. God created the woman, disappointed by the result, he invented Photoshop. (?)

11295. It's starting to seem like I donate to charities so they have money to hire to keep asking me for money. (Julius Sharpe)

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The Frictionary # 1175

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11276. Psychiatrist: a lunatic whose obsession is to cure other lunatics. (Georges Elgozy)

11277. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (T.S. Eliot)

11278. It is never what we do that makes us stress out; it is how we do it. (Dhyan)

11279. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. (Benjamin Franklin)

11280. You have to live all of one life to discover how short it is. (François Gervais)

11281. How much more fun would breast implants be if they had squeaky toys inside them? (Thom Gilmore)

11282. A family that shouts is a united family. (Gérald Godin)

11283. When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness. (Emo Phillips)

11284. Children are for people who can't have dogs. (?)

11285. All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition. (Cesare Pavese). * Are you thinking of Trump?

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The Frictionary # 1174

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11266. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.. (Edward Abbey)

11267. When we love, we always love too much. (Marcel Achard)

11268. The Greeks used to wrestle in the nude - they'd still do it if you'd let them. (Brett Butt)

11269. Notre Père, que ton nom soit programmé. (Yves Cailhier)

11270. Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. (Joseph Campbell)

11271. Certaines personnes ont tellement honte d'emprunter qu'elles n'osent pas rendre. (Frédéric Dard)

11272. A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles John Darling)

11273. The work that you carried in yourself always seems more beautiful than the one you made. (Alphonse Daudet)

11274. Ecology is the study of who eats whom. (?)

11275. The truth needs so little rehearsal. (Barbara Kingsolver)

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The Frictionary # 1173

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11256. What can't be named is eternal/ Naming splits  the eternal to smithereens. (Lao Tzu)

11257. Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses. (Wendy Liebman)

11258. A man whom one has loved with love rarely deserves to be loved with friendship. (Claire Martin)

11259. In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers. (Richard Dawkins)

11260. We don’t undergo the future, we make it, (Georges Bernanos)

11261. Fall, the two days between summer and winter. (Eli Grober)

11262. We know that an era has become unbearable when irony is no longer appropriate. (Dany Laferrière)

11263. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. (Cyril Connolly)

11264. You're old when you hear your favorite song on the elevator. (?)

11265. The two most dismal sciences: psychiatry and history; one studies the weaknesses of man, the other the weaknesses of mankind. (Michel Campiche)

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The Frictionary # 1172

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11246. The only time really wasted is when we spend time regretting the missed opportunities. (Grégire Lacroix)

11247. I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people. (Savielly Tartakower)

11248.  A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it. (Carolyn Heilbrun)

11249. Those who have inner beauty and outer beauty are reversible people. (Philippe Geluck)

11250. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. (Robert Frost)

11251. There are no popular governments. To govern is to dissatisfy. (Anatole France)

11252. Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. (John Fowles)

11253. What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards. (Milos Forman)

11254. Dignity is one thhing that alcohol does not preserve. (?)

11255. I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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The Frictionary # 1171

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11236. - What do you think the world needs? - A hug and a vacation from people. (Wiley Miller  "Non Sequitur")

11237. Why, like objects, isn’t there an office of lost and found loves? (Pierre Dac)

11238. Texas: the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest and see the least. (H.L.Mencken)

11239. To explain yourself is to lie. (Pierre Perret)

11240. Money is like manure.  If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. (Clint Murchison)

11241. The tongue always has an interest in not quarreling with the teeth. (African proverb)

11242. Burnout (...) is a loss of friendship with time itself. (David Whyte)

11244.Thought for the Day:Hmmmmm. (?)

11245. Generosity makes at least two people feel good. (Karen Casey)

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The Frictionary # 1170

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11226.If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.  What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)

11227. Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. (Don Herold)

11228. Wit does not protect from being crazy. (Émile Henriot)

11229. You know what makes a good loser?  Practice. (Ernest Hemingway)

11230. Jesus came into the world before the year 0 of himself, a fact unique in the history of the prematures. (Éric Orthwein)

11231. What's faith if not what I refuse to know? (Bruce Snider)

11232. Nostalgia is the sadness of having been happy. (Alain Sautereaud)

11233. Ever notice that people say "God knows" when they mean "no one knows". (almightygod)

11234. Sundays are peaceful because the most evil people are at church.(?)

11235. A bird born in a cage thinks that flying is a disease. (Alejandro Jodorowski)

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The Frictionary # 1169

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11216. Gratitude ages quickly. (Aristotle)

11217. A good father is a little bit of a mother. (Lee Salk)

11218. The pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. (Voltaire)

11219. It is possible to live a simple, uncomplicated life, but we usually call it by a different name. We call it loneliness. (Robert Brault)

11220. Nowadays, the priests are the only ones who want to get married. (Louise de Vilmorin)

11221. Some are guilty, but all are responsible. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)

11222. Earthworms sink into the ground so as not to fall in love with the stars. (Yvan Audouard)

11223. Invite grief for a walk, remind it with a whisper/ we all need fresh air. (Mahogany L. Browne)

11224. The reason swans mate for life is that they don't talk. (?)

11225. It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking. (Eric Hoffer)

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The Frictionary # 1168

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11206. Future is everything that Past has forgotten. (Søren Kierkegaard)

11207. Conceit is thinking you're great, egotism is knowing it. (Bobby Darin)

11208. In this color of absence / Nothing has any life or sense. (Louis Aragon)

11209. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made of. (Bruce Lee)

11210. People who are color-blind cannot see the Red Sea. (Pierre Légaré)

11211. I'm learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma. (Earthea Kitt)

11212. Behind every great woman is a man who keeps her going. (Michel Beaudry)

11213. There is no doubt that after a certain age, you have too much skin. (Loleh Bellon)

11214. Would you like to see a total solar eclipse? Easy! Close your eyes. (Réjean Lévesque)

11215. Why I don't like dogs? Because most of them come with people attached. (Quincy Forrest)

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The Frictionary # 1167

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11196. The body (...) a borrowed constellation of atoms bound to return to the stardust that made it. (Maria Popova)

11197. In life, there are two things that fall, men's illusions and women's breasts. (Alphonse Karr)

11198. What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. (Burton Rascoe)

11199. Courage is to seek the truth and speak it. (Jean Jaurès)

11200. Money is really only important if you don't have any. (Harrison Ford)

11201. If one day you feel useless and depressed, remember: one day you were the fastest sperm of all. (Coluche)

11202. We would rather die on our knees,/sniffing at a flower./ than live. Standing in line./ waiting for toilet paper to arrive. (José A. Alcantara)

11203. Fedoras being expensive, it's better not to let your head get too swollen. (Christian Mistral)

11204. During a campaign, the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. (?)

11205. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. (Sarah Kendzior)

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The Frictionary # 1166

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11176. It is hard to respond to ignorance, because it has no questions. (Robert Breault)

11177. Feigning to believe a lie is an exquisite lie. (Maurice Chapelan)

11178. Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance. (Bill Maher)

11179. If time seems too long to you, take it across the width. (Grégoire Lacroix)

11180. We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are. (Max Depree)

11181. I would like to know the music of which my dog’s tail beats time. (Yvan Audouard)

11182. The mind of night is blind, prefers voices, prefers touch. (Magda Kapa)

11183. Galaxies, galaxies everywhere/ and nowhere a sign saying this way out. (Gerda Blees)

11184. You know you are too old when you have to scroll to your year of birth. (?)

11185. How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. (Spanish proverb)

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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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