Sunday, June 05, 2005

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!

1 Comments:

At 2:15 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like the Oscar Wilde quote. I believe that it was in "the importance of being ernest" that he also said "the truth is rarely pure and never simple." later.

 

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