The Frictionary # 1141

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10926. Width of life is more important than length of life. (Avicenna aka Ibn Sina)

10927. If you look at zero, you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world. (Robert Kaplan)

10928. The two shortest and oldest words, yes and no, are those that require the most reflection. (Pythagoras)

10929. All wealth is the product of labor.  (John Locke) Not necessarily yours... 

10930. In the past, man was afraid of the future. Today, the future is afraid of man. (Albert Camus)

10931. Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. (Yoda)

10932. Everybody has ideas: the proof is that there are bad ones. (Coluche)

10933. Listen to the woman when she looks at you...not when she talks to you. (Khalil Gibran)

10934. I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call'em "plaintiff". (Lewis Grizzard)

10935. Reality surpasses fiction, but not for long, we can clearly see that the reality is tiring. (Jean-Marie Gourio)

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The Frictionary # 1140

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10916. There are only two great currents in the history of humanity: the baseness that makes conservatives and the envy that makes revolutionaries. (Edmond & Jules de Goncourt)

10917. Social media is training us to compare our lives, instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is depressed. (Bill Murray)

10918. To translate is to transfer a liquor from a wide-necked vase into a narrow-necked vase. A lot gets lost. (Victor Hugo)  Note that this quote is a translation...

10919. Chihuahuas have no idea they're a tiny dog that looks like a roast chicken. (Dwight Slade)

10920. Faith: not "wanting" to know what is true. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

10921. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. (Joey Adams)

10922. The beautiful is the truth, well-dressed. (Honoré de Balzac)

10923. A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided—it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again. (Josh Billings)

10924. If you don't let the past die, then it won't let you live. (?)

10925. If war has an opposite, gardens might sometimes be it. (Rebecca Solnit)

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The Frictionary # 1139

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10906. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. (Theodor S. Geisel aka Dr. Seuss)

10907. The wicked believe they are doing us a lot of good by not hurting us. (Aesop)

10908. A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved except in memory. (Leonard Nimoy)

10909. The most common disease among politicians is amnesia. (André Frossard)

10910. Time is the only critic without ambition. (John Steinbeck)

10911. Each wave knows it is the sea. (Lao Tzu)

10912. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart...if you hate me, I'll always be in your mind. (William Shakespeare)

10913. Time must have something to be ashamed of to run away so quickly. (Sylvain Tesson)

10914. The sheep feared the wolf all his life, but it was the shepherd who ate it. (Georgian proverb) * The country.

10915. It's a terrible thing when a fool with power fools with power. (Kelly Barnhill)

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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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The Frictionary # 1135

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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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The Frictionary # 1134

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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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