The Frictionary # 1171

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11236. - What do you think the world needs? - A hug and a vacation from people. (Wiley Miller  "Non Sequitur")

11237. Why, like objects, isn’t there an office of lost and found loves? (Pierre Dac)

11238. Texas: the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest and see the least. (H.L.Mencken)

11239. To explain yourself is to lie. (Pierre Perret)

11240. Money is like manure.  If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. (Clint Murchison)

11241. The tongue always has an interest in not quarreling with the teeth. (African proverb)

11242. Burnout (...) is a loss of friendship with time itself. (David Whyte)

11244.Thought for the Day:Hmmmmm. (?)

11245. Generosity makes at least two people feel good. (Karen Casey)

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The Frictionary # 1170

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11226.If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.  What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)

11227. Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. (Don Herold)

11228. Wit does not protect from being crazy. (Émile Henriot)

11229. You know what makes a good loser?  Practice. (Ernest Hemingway)

11230. Jesus came into the world before the year 0 of himself, a fact unique in the history of the prematures. (Éric Orthwein)

11231. What's faith if not what I refuse to know? (Bruce Snider)

11232. Nostalgia is the sadness of having been happy. (Alain Sautereaud)

11233. Ever notice that people say "God knows" when they mean "no one knows". (almightygod)

11234. Sundays are peaceful because the most evil people are at church.(?)

11235. A bird born in a cage thinks that flying is a disease. (Alejandro Jodorowski)

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The Frictionary # 1169

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11216. Gratitude ages quickly. (Aristotle)

11217. A good father is a little bit of a mother. (Lee Salk)

11218. The pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. (Voltaire)

11219. It is possible to live a simple, uncomplicated life, but we usually call it by a different name. We call it loneliness. (Robert Brault)

11220. Nowadays, the priests are the only ones who want to get married. (Louise de Vilmorin)

11221. Some are guilty, but all are responsible. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)

11222. Earthworms sink into the ground so as not to fall in love with the stars. (Yvan Audouard)

11223. Invite grief for a walk, remind it with a whisper/ we all need fresh air. (Mahogany L. Browne)

11224. The reason swans mate for life is that they don't talk. (?)

11225. It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking. (Eric Hoffer)

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The Frictionary # 1168

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11206. Future is everything that Past has forgotten. (Søren Kierkegaard)

11207. Conceit is thinking you're great, egotism is knowing it. (Bobby Darin)

11208. In this color of absence / Nothing has any life or sense. (Louis Aragon)

11209. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made of. (Bruce Lee)

11210. People who are color-blind cannot see the Red Sea. (Pierre Légaré)

11211. I'm learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma. (Earthea Kitt)

11212. Behind every great woman is a man who keeps her going. (Michel Beaudry)

11213. There is no doubt that after a certain age, you have too much skin. (Loleh Bellon)

11214. Would you like to see a total solar eclipse? Easy! Close your eyes. (Réjean Lévesque)

11215. Why I don't like dogs? Because most of them come with people attached. (Quincy Forrest)

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The Frictionary # 1167

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11196. The body (...) a borrowed constellation of atoms bound to return to the stardust that made it. (Maria Popova)

11197. In life, there are two things that fall, men's illusions and women's breasts. (Alphonse Karr)

11198. What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. (Burton Rascoe)

11199. Courage is to seek the truth and speak it. (Jean Jaurès)

11200. Money is really only important if you don't have any. (Harrison Ford)

11201. If one day you feel useless and depressed, remember: one day you were the fastest sperm of all. (Coluche)

11202. We would rather die on our knees,/sniffing at a flower./ than live. Standing in line./ waiting for toilet paper to arrive. (José A. Alcantara)

11203. Fedoras being expensive, it's better not to let your head get too swollen. (Christian Mistral)

11204. During a campaign, the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. (?)

11205. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. (Sarah Kendzior)

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The Frictionary # 1166

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11176. It is hard to respond to ignorance, because it has no questions. (Robert Breault)

11177. Feigning to believe a lie is an exquisite lie. (Maurice Chapelan)

11178. Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance. (Bill Maher)

11179. If time seems too long to you, take it across the width. (Grégoire Lacroix)

11180. We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are. (Max Depree)

11181. I would like to know the music of which my dog’s tail beats time. (Yvan Audouard)

11182. The mind of night is blind, prefers voices, prefers touch. (Magda Kapa)

11183. Galaxies, galaxies everywhere/ and nowhere a sign saying this way out. (Gerda Blees)

11184. You know you are too old when you have to scroll to your year of birth. (?)

11185. How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. (Spanish proverb)

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The Frictionary # 1165

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11166. The natural tendency of the human mind is to believe before knowing. (Gaston Bouthoul)

11167. Fun is a feeling, not an activity. (Catherine Price)

11168. In some restaurants, we call "dish of the day" leftovers from the previous day that cannot wait until the next day. (Philippe Bouvard)

11169. Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. (Walt Whitman)

11170. A word is not the thing, but a lightning bolt in the light of which it can be seen. (Denis Diderot)

11171. It's a struggle to be around him. He doesn't read. He doesn't think about things. He has opinions, but no idea. *(Sue Grafton) *Is she depicting Trump? Maybe not, he takes his opinions from Fox News.

11172. We can laugh about anything as long as it’s funny. (Grégoire Lacroix)

11173. I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. (David Bowie)

11174. The universe is made of protons, neutrons, electrons, and morons. (?)

11175. To philosophize is to learn how to die. (Michel de Montaigne)

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