The Frictionary: June 2005

Welcome to The Frictionary

Welcome to The Frictionary if you are a new visitor and welcome back to those who are back. Here is another batch of quotations:

176. It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. (Malcolm Forbes)

The next three quotations are add-ons to "moralistic" quotations we have all heard sometimes. They are featured in rice-chips bags (of all places) as part of a contest.

177. Character is doing what's right when no one is looking. So if everyone is looking do whatever you want.

178. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. So don't be too hard on yourself. After all, you're only a day old.

179. Be your own best friend. But under no circumstance be your own lawyer.

Wisdom in rice-chips!

180.I never exaggerate. I just remember big. (Chi Chi Rodriguez)

181. 'Tis with our judgements as our watches: none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. (Alexander Pope)

182. The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. (Sean O'Casey)

183. The toughest part of being on a diet is shutting up about it. (Gerald Nachman)

184. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. (Chinese proverb)

185. If you want to be loved, be lovable. (Ovid)

That's all for today. Until next time, be happy!

The Frictionary continued...

Here is another batch of quotations from "The Frictionary":

166. The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

167. Some of the people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big. (George Carlin)

168. I forget what I was taught; I only remember what I have learnt. (Patrick White)

169. The future belongs to those whose workers get up early. (Coluche)

170. Never, never barbecue with activated charcoal, it might knock your socks off. (Réjean Levesque)

171. Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. (?)

172. A teacher affects eternity; one can never tell where their influence stops. (Henry Brooks Adams)

173. Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. (George Santayana)

174. Canada: the Woody Allen of nations. (Keith Spicer)

175. Hate is just love with its back turned. (Terry Pratchett)

That's all for now. Be happy!

More quotations from "The Frictionary"

Here are more quotations from "The Frictionary":

156. Time isn't relative, it's spiteful. (Syn.Terra)

157. Push a wall, push it harder, and the wall pushes back. (Syn.Terra)

Those two quotations are taken from Blod Clot Sonata, one of the projects featured on a wonderful website, "The Aevum Network" at www.aevum.net/index.php . Sam, who uses "Syn.Terra" as pen-name, offers words, graphics, and music that will permeate your soul.

158. It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. (Kin Hubbard)

159. To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. (Ogden Nash)

160. Every accomplishment is servitude. It compels you to a higher accomplishment. (Albert Camus)

161. No alcoholic is really anonymous. (?)

162. Love vanquishes all except poverty and toothache. (Marguerite Gardiner)

163. We say animals are intelligent when they do what we ask of them. (Bertrand Vac)

164. Every time we make a nuclear weapon, we corrupt the morals of a host of innocent neutrons below the age of consent. (W.H. Auden)

165. People who throw kisses are incredibly lazy. (Bob Hope)

That's all for today. Enjoy life!

The Frictionary is alive!

More quotations from "The Frictionary":

146. The meaning of life is to give life meaning. (Ken Hudgins)

147. I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. (Pietro Aretino)

148. Trust, but verify. (Damon Runyan)

149. Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. (Bernard Berenson)

150. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. (Rabindranath Tagore)

151. The dog is loyal. But why (...)should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs. (Karl Kraus)

152. Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. (Victor Hugo)

153. Liar: the very basis of civilized society. (Oscar Wilde)

154. The pace of the caravan is determined by the slowest of the camels. (Arab proverb)

155. The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. (Cyril Connolly)

Until next time, be happy!