Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Frictionary # 166

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1566. Money doesn't talk, it swears. (Bob Dylan)

1567. We must believe in free will. We have no choice. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

1568. Rectitude (n.): the formal dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you. (?)

1569. Pardon is a gesture of contempt or of helplessness. (Bertrand Vac)

1570. Children are the periscopes of the dead. (Andrei Voznesenski)

1571. Flaws are thick where love is thin. (Russian proverb)

1572. Though no one can come back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. (Carl Bard)

1573. Intimacy happens in moments. The mistake we make is wanting it all the time. (Jo Ann Magdoff)

1574. Peripheral visionary: sees into the future but way off to the side. (Steven Wright)

1575. We are eternities suffering from recurrent amnesia. (Andrée Laurier)

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Sunday, February 17, 2008

The Frictionary # 165

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1556. Even when in love, people expect you to be happy. (Bertrand Vac)

1557. Love: a word made up of two vowels, two consonants, and two fools. (Jacob M. Braude)

1558. Mathematics is like love - a simple idea, but it can get complicated. (?)

1559. The basic premise of the music business is to screw the fans any way they can...they are junkies, they'll come back. (Cody Breuler)

1560. Evil is like a shadow. (...) You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it (...). In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine a light on it. (Shakti Gawain)

1561. I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. (Michael Crichton)

1562. Pride is a balloon filled with air from which issue storms when it is pricked. (Voltaire)

1563. Crown: a headgear that makes the head superfluous. (Gabriel Laub)

1564. Intolerance is evidence of impotence. (Aleister Crowley)

1565. Censorship is one of the many children of fear. (Réjean Lévesque)

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Frictionary # 164

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1546. Jealous: possessive adjective. (Michel Lauzière)

1547. Feelings change - memories don't. (Joel Alexander)

1548. Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. (Orson Scott Card)

1549. Accordion: bagpipe with pleats. (?)

1550. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. (Irving Kristol)

1551. May my silences become more accurate. (Theodore Roethke)

1552. Beware! The love you see in his/her eyes may only be yours that is reflected. (Réjean Lévesque)

1553. A clear conscience is a soft pillow. (German proverb)

1554. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. (Henry Kissinger)

1555. Television is like a steak - a medium rarely well done. (Richard Lederer)

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Sunday, February 03, 2008

The Frictionary # 163

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1536. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. (Mignon McLaughlin)

1537. The reason why old men use Viagra is not because they're impotent; it's because old women are so very ugly. (Jimmy Carr)

1538. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. (?)

1539. Hope is what's left when there is nothing left. (Victor Lévy-Beaulieu)

1540. Even if you are on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)

1541. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. (Edgar Watson Howe)

1542. The older you get, the more things accelerate - the memory has trouble following. (Réjean Lévesque)

1543. All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

1544. Time is the moving image of eternity. (Plato)

1545. Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. (Bertrand Russell)

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