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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