The Frictionary Post # 84

Here is another series of quotations from The Frictionary:

746. Baseball is ninety percent physical, and the other half is mental. (Yogi Berra)

747. There is no such thing as kiddie litter. (Joan Rivers)

748. Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. (Brooks Hays)

749. Frienship is like shoelaces, it often breaks at the wrong time. (A. Belot & H. Bennassar)

750. Autumn: the sun's post-script. (Pierre Véron)

751. Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future and today is a gift; that's why it's called "present". (Babatunde Olatunji)

752. Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. (Ambrose Bierce)

753. Patriotism: the fear of others. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

754. My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't know me. (Garry Shandling)

755. No answer is also an answer. (Hopi proverb)

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The Frictionary # 83

Here is another page from The Frictionary:

736. Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. (George Carlin)

737. We only love what we do not possess. (Marcel Proust)

738. Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. (Philip Guedalla)

739. The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one. (Franklin P. Jones)

740. A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defence. (American proverb)

741. Chicken: the only creature you eat before they are born and after they are dead. (?)

742. Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. (Lewis Mumford)

743. If everyone were like me, I wouldn't have to hate others. (Georges Wolinski)

744. We must despise money, especially small change. (Pierre Desproges)

745. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. (Bertrand Russell)

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The Frictionary # 82

Here is another page from The Frictionary:

726. Yawning is an orgasm for your face. (Gunver Ingeborg)

727. In love, "I" is a possessive pronoun. (Albert Brie)

728. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. (Don Stanford)

729. You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists. (Emo Phillips)

730. It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk. (?)

731. Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. (Dave Barry)

732. The devil (...) never asks for something impossible. (Paul Valéry)

733. Memory the priestess
Kills the present
And offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past. (Rabindranath Tagore)

734. To be, or what? (Sylvester Stallone)

735. Virtue is unsufficient temptation. (George Bernard Shaw)

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The Frictionary # 81

Here is another page from The Frictionary:

716. The one who tells the stories rules the world. (Hopi proverb)

717. You can never understand a language until you understand at least two. (Ronald Searle)

718. It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. (G.K. Chesterton)

719. A half-truth is a whole lie. (Yiddish proverb)

720. DCLXVI: the number of the Roman Beast. (?)

721. The teaching of English* is to literature what gynecology is to erotism. (Guy Bedos)
* "English" here replaces "français" in the original quotation.

722. Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. (Bill Vaughn)

723. Hope for the best, expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. (Mel Brooks)

724. True friends stab you in the front. (Oscar Wilde)

725. We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. (Jeremy Irons)

That's all for this edition. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. You can also subscribe to have The Frictionary e-mailed to you. Until next time, be happy.

The Frictionary # 80

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

706. Botanics is the art of drying up plants between sheets of blotting paper and insulting them in Greek and in Latin. (Alphonse Karr)

707. Good ol' days: when people ate apples instead of programming them. (Doug Bennett)

708. My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be. (?)

709. Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Gore Vidal)

710. If heaven had a little gratefulness towards puritans, nothing would ever grow on Sundays. (Bertrand Vac)

711. The complement to male supremacy is female passivity. (Marvin Harris)

712. To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. (Robert Morley)

713. The only true sadness is in the absence of desire. (Charles Ferdinand Ramuz)

714. It is more fun contemplating somebody else's navel than your own. (Arthur Hoppe)

715. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. (L.J. Peter)

That's all for this edition. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. Peace!