The Frictionary # 1116

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10676. Man needs to believe to chase away his fears or to renew them. (Albert Brie)

10677. Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. (Clarice Lispector)

10678. Deep down, an ice cube is water that has learned to swim. (Philippe Geluck)

10679. Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter. (Julius H. Comroe Jr)

10680. Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to the limit, but you don't want to break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its people. (Wu Guanzhong)

10681. Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. (Napoleon Hill)

10682. Those who don't like jokes below the belt should buy suspenders. (Jean Yanne)

10683. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. (Julius Gordon)

10684. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (?)

10685. Eternal love can last only one night, because eternity is not what makes it last, but what abolishes duration. (Emmanuelle Arsan)

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The Frictionary # 1115

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10666. When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. (G.K. Chesterton)

10667. It's Hell, it's Heaven: the amount you earn/ Determines if you play the harp or burn. (Bertolt Brecht)

10668. I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?". (Eve Merriam)

10669. The essential is constantly threatened by the insignificant. (René Char)

10670. It will be yet the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. (George W. Foote)

10671. Don't be misled by fanatics who say/ That only one truth should be stated:/ Truth is constructed in such a way/ That it can't be exaggerated. (Piet Hein)

10672. A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

10673. Aging is annoying because we don’t know when it started and even less when it will end. (Bernard Pivot)

10674. In the category of the great scams of this world: the price of razor blades. (?)

10675. If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. (Jack Kerouac)

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The Frictionary # 1114

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10656. Political party - where people of shared values form an allegiance and then proceed to sacrifice their values to the allegiance. (Robert Brault)

10657. Courage is the exception, it’s automatically loneliness. What a void around courage! (Jean Giono)

10658. When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid. (Ricky Gervais)

10659. Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours (...) They carry themselves with an aloof sense of perpetual entitlement. (Caroline Knapp)

10660. Who does not keep on learning is unworthy of teaching. (Gaston Bachelard)

10661. The best part of aging is pretending you don't understand technology. (Maria Scriver "Half Full")

10662. We come and go; time remains. Then time is not time; then it is eternity. (Osho)

10663. I'm in the Now a lot more now/ And here's what's even greater/ I never can run out/There's always more Now later. (Greg Tamblyn)

10664. Coyote: homeless wolf. (Martin Petit)

10665. Influencers only talk to those who can be influenced. (Michel Denisot)

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The Frictionary # 1113

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10646. To achieve simplicity, one must try to not try. (Réjean Lévesque)

10647. Everything else of the you that is you is memory. (Nils Peterson)

10648. The only certainty I have is that I'm in doubt. (Pierre Desproges)

10649. There are two tragedies in life./ One is not to get your heart's desire./ The other is to get it. (George Bernard Shaw)

10650. Who increases his knowledge increases his ignorance. (Friedrich von Schlegel)

10651. - Why do they say "Time is like a river"? 

            - Because the longer you're in it, the more wrinkled you get. 

(Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10652. The media undo at night what school weaves during the day. (Thomas De Koninck)

10653. The worst thing about parallel parking is witnesses. (mariana Z)

10654. Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea. (?)

10655. To know is to choose what you will not forget. (Cynthia Fleury)

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The Frictionary # 1112

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10636. It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -Dumbledore (Rowling, J.K.)

10637. I studied all the methods to burn fat and apparently, the most effective is cremation. (Laetitia Castwa)

10638. No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient. (Arthur Miller)

10639. Have you noticed that the "people" is always on the side of the person who claims it. (François Cardinal)

10640. Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer? (Clarice Lispector)

10641. The truth is that there is an incredible amount of drops that do not run over the cup. (Romain Gary)

10642. Enough is a decision not an amount. (Alison Faulkner)

10643. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. (JUnichiro Tanizaki)

10644. We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended. (?)

10645. Wrongs are often forgotten, but contempt never is. Philip D. Stanhope)

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The Frictionary # 1111

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10626. Since we can never know anything for sure, it is simply not worth searching for certainty, but it is well worth searching for truth. (Karl Popper)

10627. Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich. (Carsten Jensen)

10628. Luck is the ability to adapt instantly to the unexpected. (Alfred Capus)

10629. We're only immortal for a limited time. (Neil Peart)

10630. Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand:/ bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. (Hafiz)

10631. Language is not the frosting, it's the cake. (Tom Robbins)

10632. It serves no purpose for man to win the moon if he comes to lose the Earth. (François Mauriac)

10633. I have post-party depression. (Wendy LIebman)

10634. Homeopathy: the air guitar of medicine. (?)

10635. The past is a broken egg, the future is a brooded egg. (Paul Éluard)

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The Frictionary # 1110

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10616. An intellectual is someone who waits patiently for someone to contradict him. (Amélie Nothomb)

10617. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. (Brad Paisley)

10618. But what is a winner if not a manufacturer of losers? (Albert Jacquard)

10619. Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by the adults to children, and by children to adults.

10620. Life is a succession of paragraphs that all end with a question mark. (Charlélie Couture)

10621. Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. (Erica Jong)

10622. After making love, the first one who talks will say something silly. (Henri de Montherlant)

10623. Reality TV: It's like a photo...of a drawing...of a hologram. (Dana Gould)

10624. Religious persecution is when you are prevented from exercising your beliefs, NOT when you are prevented from imposing your beliefs. (?)

10625. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr)

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The Frictionary # 1109

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10606. Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed. (Erich Fromm)

10607. Chance never does anything by chance. (Jacques Prévert)

10608. To be accurate...'In God Some of Us Trust'. (Annie Laurie Gaylor)

10609. The important thing in life is to recognize one’s mistakes. For example, yesterday I ran into my ex and I recognized him. (MissDéesse)

10610. You'd worry less about what people think about you if you knew how seldom they do. (David Foster Wallace)

10611. God will forgive me.  That's his business. (Heinrich Heine)

10612. Turbulence is the pothole in the sky. (Shower Thoughts)

10613. Colour is the place where our brain and the universe meet. (Paul Klee)

10614. First, we learn to read, then we read to learn. (?)

10615. Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. (Gypsy Rose Lee)

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The Frictionary # 1108

10596.  Eternity is waiting forever. (André Sauvé)

10597. We love, then we lose. We lose our loved ones - to death or the dissolution of mutuality - or we lose ourselves (this is why flowers move us so.). (Maria Popova)

10598. The stars are jealous/ of the fireworks/ but promise to dazzle us/ when they go nova. (Réjean Lévesque)

10599. The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of man. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

10600. Don't love like a bird./ When water dries, they fly away./ Love like a fish/ When water dries, they die. (Kabir)

10601. Twinkle, twinkle little star. You are nothing. You've been dead for a thousand years. (Lynda Barry)

10602. The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living. (Jean Cocteau)

10603. Dogs prepare you for babies. Cats prepare you for teenagers. (Erik Glenn)

10604. When people treat you like they don't care, believe them. (?)

10605. Time is a great master, they say. The problem is that he kills his students. (Hector Berlioz)

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The Frictionary # 1107

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10586. If you want to master something, teach it. (Richard Feynman)

10587. You have the possibility today to be racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic. Just say that it is in the name of the Quran. (Michel Onfray)

10588. We often discover what WILL DO, by finding out what WILL NOT DO. Samuel Smiles)

10589. One day, a wise man said, "You're right, darling". (Laetitia Castwa)

10590. Everybody wants to be liked, often mistaken for wanting to be understood. (Robert Brault)

10591. Being old means being young for longer than others. (Philippe Geluck)

10592. At night/ when it's quiet/I listen to the/ refrigerator/ thinking. (Coyote Sings)

10593. Racism is not an opinion, it is a crime. (Guy Bedos)

10594. When trust fades, forgiveness means nothing. (?)

10595. The relationship between thought and language is the relationship between a wound and its scar. (Hans Abendroth)

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THe Frictionary # 1106

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10576. It is impossible to defeat an ignorant in an argument. (G.M. McAdoo)

10577. Man differs from the animal in that he is endowed with ulterior motives. (Antoine Blondin)

10578. If you eat something, but no one sees you eat it, it has no calories. (Lewis Grizzard)

10579. Men hunt, women fish. (Victor HUgo)

10580. Entropy leads to the heat death/ of the universe & so/ the final diminishment of desire/ I hope  we meet before then. (Positively Wyrde)

10581. Education indeed serves much more often to enhance the quality of elected officials' speeches than their results. (François Cardinal)

10582. Life is like a box of chocolates, because only 2 out of 5 chocolates are actually good. (Jacob Ford)

10583. You can't fight progress.  But I've noticed you can unplug a lot of it. (Funnyoneliners)

10584. Promises are like babies, easy to make, hard to deliver. (?)

10585. One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's troubles does not make it better. (Cesare Pavese)

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The Frictionary # 1105

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10566. Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. (Edison Haines)

10567. There are no pills against narcissism. Being manipulative is not a mental illness. (Marie-Ève Cotton)

10568. It takes the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. (Figgy Joyce)

10569. We are not infallible because we are sincere. (Sacha Guitry)

10570. The shadow of the zebra has no stripes. (African proverb)

10571. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. (Bill Maher)

10572. What a woman calls being right is not having all the wrongs. (Sophie Arnoud)

10573. Any general statement is like a cheque on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. (Ezra Pound)

10574. Be decisive. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision. (?)

10575. Who has not known absence knows nothing of love. (Christian Bobin)

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The Frictionary # 1104

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10556. Freedom of expression is a farce if factual information is not guaranteed and the facts themselves are not the subject of debate. Hannah Arendt)

10557. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see. (Alexandra K. Trenfor)

10558.  The more I know men, the more I love women. (Francis Blanche)

10559. Science does not deal in facts - it deals in hypotheses, which are never fully and finally correct. (Orson Scott Card)

10560. Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. (Italo Calvino)

10561. Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. (Kin Hubbard)

10562. Without humour, cruelty is everywhere. (Gary Vidor)

10563. Never mind maps/ borders are invisible scars/ they do not divide land/ only people. (Positively Wyrde)

10564. Never make a woman mad, they can remember stuff that hasn't happened yet. (?)

10465. History is written by those who win. (Robert Brasillach)

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The Frictionary # 1103

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10546. All men are equal... even women. (Isabelle Alonso)

10547. Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïveté. (Maria Popova)

10548. Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

10549. There are two tragedies in life./ One is not to get your heart's desire./ The other is to get it. (George Bernard Shaw)

10550. Who rides a tiger cannot dismount. (Chinese proverb)

10551. Just because we got there doesn’t mean we’re done. (André Sauvé)

10552. People were given a vast universe to teach them humility and they invented astrology to make it all about them. (Bon Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10553. In the past, there was more future than now. (Philippe Geluck)

10554. Zoos are elaborate prisons for animals who aren't delicious. (?)

10555. To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the end. (Helen Rowland)

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The Frictionary # 1102

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10536. Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes. (Jan Masaryk)

10537. Depressions may bring people closer to the church - but so do funerals. (Clarence Darrow)

10538. Super glue setting time: wood: 30sec. plastic:20 sec. ceramic: 15 sec. fingers: instant. (Laetitia Castwa)

10539. It took less than an hour to make the atom, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man.* *Numbers now revised.

10540. Lying is the talent of those who do not have any. (Marie-Josph Chénier)

10541. The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. (Ned Rorem)

10542. Thousands upon thousands have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health. (Adelle Davis)

10543. I am the ocean/ who longs to touch your foot. (Richard Desjardins)

10544. I was playing chess with a friend and he said, "Let's make this interesting." So, we stopped playing chess. (?)

10545. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of female begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." (Shirley Chisholm)

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The Frictionary # 1101

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10526. The more you live, the less you die. (Janis Joplin)

10527. To despise is to refuse to understand. (Marcel Aymé)

10528. The cornerstone of male philosophy was (is) "If you ignore it, maybe it'll go away". (Stephen King)

10529. Veggie sausage: hummus in a condom. (Simon Gouache)

10530. If you work hard to prevent people from voting, you pretty much admit your ideas aren't popular and you fear the verdict of the people. (Dan Rather)

10531. Scale: driving power of guilt. (Hugo Léger)

10532. It's 2025 and we still don't know who let the dogs out. (Judes Dickey)

10533. We are so used to complicating our lives that it has become complicated to be simple. (André Sauvé)

10534. Mortgage: a house with a guilty conscience. (?)

10535. What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious. (Lisel Muller)

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The Frictionary # 1100

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10516. Certain things in life have to be experienced and never explained. Love is such a thing. (Paulo Coelho)

10517. If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. (Dean Smith)

10518. There are three dimensions of love: depth, duration and trust. (André Maurois)

10519.  Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets. (Bill Vaughan)

10520.  Not all -ly words are adverbs and not all adverbs end in -ly. July is a month, lily is a flower, and ugly bully is a president. (Anu Garg)

10521. You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither. (Steve Martin)

10522. Culture is not a science. And fortunately. Its benefits are not quantifiable and it bothers those who count. (Marc Séguin)

10523. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. (Bertrand Russell)

10524. If you do not say anything, you will not be asked to repeat. (?)

10525. History is written by the victors and those who are able to write it. (Bernard Werber)

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The Frictionary # 1099

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10506. Greatness has nothing to do with goodness. (Frank Yerby)

10507. Music is the home of sharing cultures. (Betty Bonifassi)

10508. People know many things, and half of them are wrong. If only we knew which half, we'd have reason to be proud of our intelligence. (Orson Scott Card)

10509. If you boil your alphabet soup too long, you will eat capitals. (François Morency)

10510. Our planet is beset by conflict, climate change, pollution, disease, and other hazards. What better time to be hopeful. (Anne Lamott)

10511. One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. (Klaus Kinski)

10512. Never serve tea from a Neti pot. (James Ford)

10513. Justice does not come via the Internet. (Tristane Banon)

10514. What you are not changing you are choosing. Read that again. (?)

10515. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. (Margaret Fuller)

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The Frictionary # 1098

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10496. All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. (Geoff Mulgan)

10497. History repeats itself twice, first as a tragedy then as farce. (Karl Marx)

10498. Believing is not knowing. (Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

10499. I am afraid of paranoia. (Positively Wyrde)

10500. Polls are never wrong; it’s the people who vote that are always wrong. (Stéphane Laporte)

10501. One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. (John Burroughs)

10502. One day, I was told that Eternity is not only forever. It has also always been... It upset me. (Évelyne de la Chenelière)

10503. God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best coach. (Heywood Brown)

10504. When you forgive, you don't change the past - you change the future. (?)

10505. Even God is deprived of this one thing only: the power to undo what has been done. (Agathon)

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The Frictionary # 1097

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10486. All decisions involving human lives are made by those who do not risk anything. (Simone Weil)

10487. A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn. (Helen Keller)

10488. When a clown enters a palace, he does not become king; the palace becomes a circus. (Turkish proverb)

10489. A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. (Lewis Mumford)

10490. To explain yourself is to lie. (Jacques Perret)

10491. A good story invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. (Sid Caesar)

10492. Gluttony begins when you’re not hungry anymore. (Alphonse Daudet)

10493. Of those who say nothing, few are silent. (Thomas Neill)

10494. The brain is the most amazing organ. It works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from birth until you fall in love. (?)

10495. No religion has clean hands. They are only strong enough to hate us, but never powerful enough to love us all. (Jean-Pierre Létourneau)

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