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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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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