Sunday, January 28, 2007

The Frictionary # 110

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1006. A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted. (?)

1007. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and it's waiting for it. (Terry Pratchett)

1008. There may be aliens visiting Earth but I can't figure out why they only seem to abduct the schizophrenics. (Martha A. Churchill)

1009. Fidelity makes dogs noisy and humans cumbersome. (Bertrand Vac)

1010. Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. (James Graham)

1011. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. (Delos McKown)

1012. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. (Gandhi)

1013. Last night
we attempted
a lint
transplant
but
her navel
rejected
it. (Tom Robbins)

1014. A poet is a world locked up in a man. (Victor Hugo)

1015. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. (John Lehman)

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Sunday, January 21, 2007

The Frictionary # 109

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996. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. (Buckminster Fuller)

997. Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. (J. Bartlett Brebner)

998. Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. (Mitchell Kapor)

999. The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. (?)

1000. * The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. (Nadine Gordimer)

* This is kind of a milestone; the 1000th quotation!


1001. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. (Joseph Joubert)


1002. Blessed are those that are cracked, for they will let the light through. (Michel Audiard)


1003. It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. (Russian proverb)


1004. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. (Gracie Allen)


1005. Never confuse motion with action. (Benjamin Franklin)


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Sunday, January 14, 2007

The Frictionary # 108

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986. God would be unjust if we weren't guilty. (Charles Baudelaire)

987. Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? (Steven Wright)

988. Cell phones: how amoebas communicate. (Johnny Hart)

989. Man and woman are like two sides of a medal; they can't see each other but they stay together. (Coluche)

990. Never hit a man with glasses. Use a baseball bat. (?)

991. Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. (Dave Barry)

992. Duct tape is like "The Force". It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the Universe together. (Carl Zwanzig)

993. The similarity between "tourists" and "terrorists" is not only phonetic. (Réjean Lévesque)

994. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)

995. Those who believe in telekinesics, raise my hand. (Kurt Vonnegut)

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

The Frictionary # 107

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976. It's best to read between the lines, it's less tiring on the eyes. (Sacha Guitry)

977. Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry late; for another thing they die earlier. (H.L. Mencken)

978. Rich people have anxieties, the poor have worries. (Louis Scutenaire)

979. Baroque (adj.): when you're out of Monet. (?)

980. We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese)

981. I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunshine. (Rita Rudner)

982. Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. (Peter T. McIntyre)

983. An empty head makes nodding very easy. (Zarko Petan)

984. The best lie is the one unspoken. (R.D. Asktinas)

985. Only librarians like to search; everyone else likes to find. (Roy Tennant)

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