Sunday, March 17, 2024

The Frictionary # 1039

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9926. Happiness is an abstract word composed of some ideas of pleasure. (Voltaire)

9927. The only cure for grief is to grieve. (Earl Grollman)

9928. If God is really everywhere, how do you explain Trump? Is He in his pants? (Réjean Lévesque)

9929. All of those ideas about the future are actually made of memories. (David Cain)

9930. Greed is a sin that pays off. (Paul Morand)

9931. The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. Frederic Lawrence Knowles)

9932. Every apple is a flower that has known love. (Félix Leclerc)

9933. I'm looking for love, but I'll settle for peanut butter. (Victoria Roberts)

9934. We know where you live...(USPS). (?)

9935. If the experience was useful, after a while, we would stop getting the cold!

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Sunday, March 10, 2024

The Frictionary # 1038

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9916. Young, we think of death without waiting for it; old, we wait for it without thinking. (Maurice Chapelan)

9917. Men(...). Unable to make babies they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. (Lucy Ellmann)

9918. Advertising cannot be objective. That is not its job. It always carries a superlative. (Jean-Jacques Stréliski)

9919. The most fantastical and unbelievable thing in The Lord of the Rings is that Legolas never stops at the arrow store once to refill. (Pat Tobin

9920. The seed hidden in the heart of the apple is an invisible orchard. (Welsh proverb)

9921. There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. (Malcolm S. Forbes)

9922. You will never get any more out of life than you expect. (Bruce Lee)

9923. The unconscious takes revenge at night. (Louis Scutenaire)

9924. If we are made in God's image...shouldn't we be invisible? (?)

9925. Kids don't leave school because we didn't give them enough facts, but because they didn't find any meaning in them. (Gertrude Moskowitz)

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Sunday, March 03, 2024

The Frictionary # 1037

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9906. If you are against freedom of speech, you should not be allowed to say it. (Julien Tremblay)

9907. Being a parent is the only job you can accidentally apply for. (Phil Hanley]

9908. It's so much easier to hate and be certain than to sing and be moved. (David Oates)

9909. Philosophy is like Russia: full of swamps, and often invaded by the Germans. (Roger Nimier)

9910. Sleep is death without the responsibility. (Fran Lebowitz)

9911. Mimes wear gloves so they won't smudge the glass box. (Réjean Lévesque)

9912. The older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love that you need. (Leonard Cohen)

9913. There is much beauty in the things we do not control. (Marc Séguin)

9914. I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish. (Lefty Gomez)

9915. We dream of immortality because we are creatures made of loss. (Maria Popova)

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

The Frictionary # 1036

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9896. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. (Agnes Moorehead)

9897. If the ability to speak many languages is an asset, the ability to shut up is priceless. (Jean Gabin)

9898. For what are stars but asterisks to point a human life. (Emily Dickinson)

9899. Politicians grow on human manure. (Francis Picabia)

9900. If God is really everywhere, there is no place he can go. (Réjean Lévesque paraphrasing Michel Lauzière)

9901. The only power an actor has is his ability to say "No.". (Lou Diamond Phillips)

9902. My kids have to go to school so I can love them again. (Post-pandemic note). (Derek Séguin)

9903. I think the continents drifted apart because of Australia. (Roman Frayssinet)

9904. Kids into sports means parents and transport. [?)

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Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Frictionary # 1035

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9886. You can't learn from mistakes if, in your view, you haven't made any. (Mardy Grothe)

9887. It is very easy to write about your remembrances when you have a bad memory. (Arthur Schnitzler)

9888. Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

9889. The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. (Søren Kierkegaard)

9890. A pessimist is a man who has worked for three months with an optimist. (Robert Beauvais)

9891. The USA is the number one reality show in Canada. (Alonzo Bodden)

9892. Beauty is a sport where off-sides are frequent. (Frédéric Beigbeder)

9893. There's never a line for the men's room. The Lord works in misogynous ways. (Mike Baldwin "Cornered")

9894. God is innocent.  Noah built in a flood plain. (?)

9895. Pain passes, beauty remains. (Auguste Renoir)

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

The Frictionary # 1034

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9876. Nobility is the mystic property of the seminal liquid. (Paul Valéry)

9877. I finally got my life going in the right direction but I was in the wrong lane. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

9878. Fashion is the worst prostitute. (Madeleine Ferron)

9879. There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. (Fran Lebowitz)

9880. If violence doesn't solve your problem, it's because you don't hit hard enough. (Pierre Desproges)

9881. Alone is a fact, a condition where there no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that. (Twyla Tharp)

9882.  The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. (Louis de Bernières)

9883. Marriage and macaroni are good only when hot. (Italian proverb)

9884. Jacuzzi: Bath that allows you to fart incognito. (Michel Lauzière)

9885. A pessimist is never disappointed. (Maurice Chapelan)

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Sunday, February 04, 2024

The Frictionary # 1033

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9866. A blind obedience presupposes an extreme ignorance. (Jean-Paul Marat)

9867. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough. (Oprah Winfrey)

9868. We tend to classify species linearly, from insect to fish to reptile to bird up to mammal, with Ron DeSantis at the top. (Yves Boisvert)

9869. Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. (Woody Allen)

9870. Mohammed said, "Being naked is not improper". As long as you put clothes over it. (Réjean Lévesque)

9871. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? (...) Most likely some fowl play happened. (Anu Garg)

9872. I am pessimistic by intelligence. Optimistic by will. (Antonio Gramsci)

9873. Relatives are the one thing Amazon can't deliver. (Stephen King)

9874. When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say. (?)

9875. People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them. (Arundhati Roy)

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