The Frictionary # 1138

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10896. Modern history is written with prejudices, ancient history with scissors. (Maurice Joly)

10897. Life is not like a box of chocolates - Life is more like a wad of gum stuck to the bottom of your favorite pair of shoes. The more you try to clean up the mess, the stickier it becomes. (Rhonda Thompson)

10898. Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. (Liv Ullman)

10899. Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. (Sinclair Lewis)

10900. The soul has illusions like a bird has wings; this is what sustains it. (Victor HUgo)

10901. Mirror: I am silver and exact, I have no preconception, / whatever I see I swallow immediately/ (...) I am not cruel, only truthful - (Sylvia Plath)

10902. Unlike the brain, the stomach warns us when it is empty. (Buddhist proverb)

10903. Remember, Jesus wasn't a Christian. (Theo Huxtable)

10904. Men cause 100% of unwanted pregnacies. (?)

10905. The tree is this power that slowly marries the sky. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

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The Frictionary # 1137

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10886. It’s not that life is short, it’s that time passes quickly... (Henri Jeanson)

10887. The only real argument for marriage is that it remains the best method for getting acquainted. (Heywood Broun)

10888. When an atheist prays, it is hope speaking. (Réjean Lévesque)

10889. It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. (Jim Rohn)

10890. Reading is being the spectator, the director and the actor at the same time. (Stéphane Laporte)

10891. To keep young kids behaving in a car road trip, have a bag of their favoritecandy, and throw a piece out the window every time they misbehave. (Kevin Kelly)

10892. The turkey is a peacock that did not succeed. (Roland Dorgelès)

10893. [Humanity] is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred million galaxies. (Stephen Hawking)

10894. Whenever I'm in trouble, I think, "What would Jesus do?" Then I pretend to be dead and disappear for three days. (?)

10895. The difference between democracy and dictatorship is that in democracy, we choose our dictators. (John Joos)

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The Frictionary # 1136

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10876. Prayer has no effect on Ebola. But science can cure the chlamydia of credulity. (almightygod)

10877. I love your eyes where I see myself. / Your eyes that are water that dreams. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

10878. There is no life on earth without water./ Because without water, there is no coffee./ And without coffee, I'll kill you all. (Carbosly)

10879. The destruction of a musical instrument is a sacrilege...except for the accordion. (Réjean Lévesque)

10880. To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is the malady of ignorance. (Amos Bronson Alcott)

10881. Love is a river that dries up if it is no longer fed by trust. (Adrien Verschaere)

10882. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it, for a few minutes, including you. (Anne Lamott)

10883. We need to/ sit on the rim/ of the well/ of darkness/ and fish for/ fallen light/ with patience. (Pablo Neruda)

10884. War's when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out yourself. (?)

10885. Like the canyon, I am shaped by what I miss. (Joanna Hoffman)

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10866. It is your road/ and yours alone, others may walk/ it with you,/ but no one can/walk it for you. (Rumi)

10867. L’homme qui ne craint pas la vérité n’a rien à craindre des mensonges. (Thomas Jefferson)

10868. The rattlesnake would be infinitely more dangerous if it didn’t have a rattle. (Louis Sachar)

10869. I've never had a bad riddance. They've all been good. (Brian Kiley)

10870. Being tolerant does not mean that one must tolerate the intolerance of others. (JUles Romains)

10871. When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. (Creighton Abrams)

10872. The one who doesn't know how to laugh cannot be taken seriously. (Philippe Sollers)

10873. Gun control is an incredibly emotive debate and we don't want those emotions to get out of hand, because, let's not forget, one side has guns. (Jimmy Carr)

10874. If the climate were a bank, we would have already saved it. (?)

10875. To work in collaboration means taking half of your time to explain to the other that his ideas are stupid. (Georges Wolinski)

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10856. If Christ forgave the guilty woman, it was because she was not his wife. (Georges Courteline)

10857. When you have nothing to say, say nothing. (Charles Caleb Colton)

10858. Governing is making people believe. (Niccolo Machiavelli)

10859. Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around in a cow pasture. (Winston Churchill)

10860. Memory is a neighbour of remorse. (Victor Hugo)

10861. Tradition is the illusion of permanence. (Woody Allen)

10862. Anxiety is a bit like cellulite of the soul. (Julie Snyder)

10863. On my income tax 1040 it says "Check this box if you are blind". I wanted to put a check about three inches away. (Tom Lehrer)

10864. I think that weekends are made in China, they really don’t last long. (Humour décalé)

10865. I think freedom, ideally, is being able to choose your responsibilities. (Toni Morrison)

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10846. The primary purpose of prayer is to clarify our hopes and fears. (Maria Popova)

10847. There is no worse solitude than the one we experience when there are two of us. (Marc Lévy)

10848. The most low-maintenance plants are dead ones. (Natalya Lobanova)

10849. I answer many questions by not considering them. (Louis Scutenaire)

10850. The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. (William Safire)

10851. When it has come to fighting a vaccine rather than the virus, it’s that in addition to lucidity, we have lost some humanity. (Serge Joncour)

10852. -Dad, what does procrastinate mean?  - I'll tell you later. (Mason Mastroianni "B.C.")

10853. The past is what no longer exists. Living in the past is not living.  It is being dead or wanting to die. (Roch Carrier)

10854. I am one with Nature - on a scale of 1 to 10. (?)

10855. The unknown, the part that comes/ after now. (Jim Culleny)

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10836. All his life, man balances between continuity that annoys him and change that scares him. That’s why man is irritable. (Bernard PIvot)

10837. There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. (Stephen Colbert)

10838. There are two liquids especially agreeable to the human body: wine inside and oil outside. (Pliny the Elder)

10839. Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. (Chelsea Manning)

10840. Your goal should not be to have more but to have enough. (Réjean Lévesque)

10841. Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound. (Ernest Hemingway)

10842. If my shoe is too narrow, what does it matter to me that the world is vast? (Turkish proverb)

10843. A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. (Howard Scott)

10844. Happiness comes from within. That's why it feels good to fart. (?)

10845. There is nothing that is good or bad except two things: wisdom which is good and ignorance which is bad. (Plato)

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The Frictionary # 1131

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10826. In poetry, beauty is no ornament, it is the meaning. It is the truth. (Ursula K. LeGuin)

10827. One bird in a cage, freedom is in mourning. (Jacques Prévert)

10828. I take heart that no matter where I am, I'm halfway to somewhere. (Christopher Moore)

10829. Silence is made of words we have not said. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

10830. The idol is the measure of the worshipper. (James Russell Lowell)

10831. Cumulolingus: cloud in the shape of a tongue. (Réjean Lévesque)

10832. Fashion, to me, is born and dies every day. (Gianni Versace)

10833. Diseases: the fittings of death. (Jules Renard)

10834. One difference between men and women? When a woman asks you to smell something, it smells good. (?)

10835.  In movies, after a lifetime of crime, villains often get their just deserts. In real life, they get elected. (Anu Garg)

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