The Frictionary # 1094

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10456. Success is not a public thing. It's when you have fewer and fewer regrets. (Toni Morrison)

10457. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions no one has asked them. (Leo Tolstoy)

10458. The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. (Isaac Asimov)

10459. People are prisoners of their phones. That's why they are called cell phones. (?)

10460. Preventing the happiness of others is the last consolation that remains to the jealous. (Pedro Calderon de la Barca)

10461. The office of president represents more and more clearly 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)

10462. A guy who is right on the North Pole, whatever direction he takes to leave, he will necessarily go south. (Philippe Geluck)

10463. Mondays are the potholes in the road of life. (Tom Wilson "Ziggy")

10464. He who is not satisfied with what he has, would also not be satisfied with what he wants to have. (Socrates)

10465. Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and it never will. (Frederick Douglass)

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The Frictionary # 1093

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10446. Courage is the balance between fear and boldness. (Aristotle)

10447. Little kids are like sponges. They're small and they collect germs. (Brian Kiley)

10448. Walking is going some of the way together with time. (Sylvain Tesson)

10449. Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. (Jeffrey Eugenides)

10450. Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. (Carl Jung)

10451. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. (Richard Feynman)

10452. To write is a way of talking without being interrupted. (Jules Renard)

10453. We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry. (?)

10454. How does the scar forgive the knife? (Tiff Merritt)

10455. Currently, Man is waging a war against nature; if he wins, he’s lost. (Hubert Reeves)

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The Frictionary # 1092

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10436. Most people want security in this world, not liberty. (H.L. Mencken)

10437. Everyone knows that deterrent weapons are only effective if they are not used. (André Frossard)

10438. I used to wonder what it was like to read people's minds, then I got a Facebook account and I got over it. (Funnyoneliners)

10439. Civilization is a fight against fear. (Gaston Bouthoul)

10440. For beige isn't a color, it's a state of mind. (Hannah Betts)

10441. At least love passes the time... And time passes love. (Guillaume Musso)

10442. You know what they fill futons with? Hatred. (Jim Gaffigan)

10443. People who have a good conscience often have a bad memory. (Jacques Brel)

10444. Drunk people, children, and leggings always tell the truth. (?)

10445. Faith does not produce miracles. Faith makes excuses for the lack of miracles. (almightygod)

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The Frictionary #1091

10426. Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. (Khalil Gibran)

10427. Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. (Yoni Appelbaum)

10428. The past is present in our future. (Réjean Lévesque)

10429. The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. (S.A. Sachs)

10430. Dare I say? God is easily known, as long as one does not constrain oneself to define him. (Joseph Joubert)

10431. If you need to vusualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. (Tom Robbins)

10432. If the sky falls on my head, it will mean that I was standing when it happened. (Normand Lester)

10433. Poems are scars/ shaped like words. (Sable Swan)

10434. The fact that the world is populated by morons allows each of us to go unnoticed. (?)

10435. Music: the costliest of all noises. (Théophile Gautier)

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The Frictionary # 1090

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10416. When you blame others, you give up your power to change. (Robert Anthony)

10417. Memory does not make films, it makes photographs. (Milan Kundera)

10418. When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. (Lucius Cary)

10419. The ram that is going to charge starts by backing up. (African proverb)

10420. If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it. (Weird Al Yankovic)

10421. Nothing disturbs a life more than love. (François Mauriac)

10422. Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

10423. Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. (Gandhi)

10424. My girlfriend said, "Emo, I'm seeing another man." I said, "Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.". (Emo Philips)

10425. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Rudyard Kipling)

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The Frictionary # 1089

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10406. Society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed. (Hannah Arendt)

10407. Simplicity is making a firm choice not to fill ourselves with what empties us. (Régis Carlo)

10408. The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. (Peter DeVries)

10409. Nations are many, Earth is One. Oceans are many, Water is One. Stars are many, Sky is One. Beings are many, Breath is One. Gods are many, Love is One. (Sathya Sai Baba)

10410. Each passing second is a unit of change. (Réjean Lévesque)

10411. Science; a funny thing - it keeps on working even when you don't believe in it. (Mason Mastroianni)

10412. The temple bell stops/ But the sound keeps coming/ Out of the flowers. (Matsuo Bashô)

10413. My kids are very optimistic. Every glass they leave sitting around the house is at least half full. (Brad Broadhus)

10414. Creationism: the belief that the world was populated from one incestuous family. Twice. (?)

10415. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. (M.C. Escher)

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The Frictionary # 1088

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10396. The present is a feather on loan from the wings of time that only attention makes beautiful and only kindness valuable. (Maria Popova)

10397. But there is always a "but" in this imperfect world. (Anne Brontë)

10398. Faith? (...) That which allows the intelligence to live beyond its means. (André Frossard)

10399. Singles bars are like soccer.  I run around back and forth for hours and never score. (Dave Whamond "Reality Check")

10400. I never thought that hell could be as simple a thing as a clock without hands. (Albert Sanchez Pinol)

10401. Perhaps leaving and coming back makes you a stranger. (Nicole Cecilia Delgado)

10402. Doubt is the worst of all evils, for it supports them all. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

10403. It's a known fact that the sheep that give steel wool have no natural enemies. (Gary Larson)

10404. I found $20 in the parking lot and I thought to myself, "What would Jesus do?". So I turned it into wine. (?)

10405. Most men who speak ill of women speak ill of one woman. (Rémy de Gourmont)

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