Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Frictionary # 214

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2046. One can love more than once, but not the same person. (Gaston François duc de Lévis)

2047. Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love. (Bob Udkoff)

2048. Beneath every no
Lays a passion for yes that had never been broken. (Wallace Stevens)

2049. The knell is death laughing. (Roch Carrier)

2050. Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. (Charles Kingsley)

2051. The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. (L.J. Peter)

2052. I can speak Esperanto like a native. (Spike Milligan)

2053. The only things that are sure in this world are coincidences. (Leonardo Sciascia)

2054. The greatest lesson we learn from past civilizations is ingratitude. (?)

2055. Habit, that which turns life into a proverb. (Alfred de Musset)

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Frictionary # 213

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2036. Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson)

2037. The next time people fault you for ending a sentence with a preposition, ask them: "What are you talking about?". (Anu Garg)

2038. Time abrades the mistake and polishes the truth. (Gaston François duc de Lévis)

2039. Language is the only homeland. (Czeslaw Milosz)

2040. Silence is golden. Make me a millionaire. (Ernest Buchanan)

2041. The moon is the sun of the statues. (Jean Cocteau)

2042. VERAM (Very Exciting Random Access Memory), for computers that are porn-heavy. (D. McEwan)

2043. When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered. (Ryszard Kapuscinski)

2044. Tomorrow can only be a mystery. (Réjean Lévesque)

2045. If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. (Don Marquis)

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

The Frictionary # 212

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2026. The living have to remember, the dead have to forget. Conservation of energy. (Terry Pratchett)

2027. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. (Voltaire)

2028. A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. (Joyce Carey)

2029. Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. (G.C. Lichtenberg)

2030. If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war. (Steve Allen)

2031. Finding is the greatest trap there is. I like searching way better. (Fred Pellerin)

2032. An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. (Fred Allen)

2033. A good sport has to lose to prove it. (?)

2034. When in doubt, tell the truth. (Mark Twain)

2035. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. (Josh Billings)

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Sunday, January 04, 2009

The Frictionary # 211

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2016. Humility is no substitute for a good personality. (Fran Lebowitz)

2017. Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken. (Harlan Coben)

2018. Women love men who don't need them. (Ronald Lavallée)

2019. People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. (Terry Pratchett)

2020. The beautiful is only the first degree of the terrible. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

2021. All of man's misfortune comes from hope. (Albert Camus)

2022. I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. (Wendy Liebman)

2023. Empty barrels are those that make the most noise. (Jewish proverb)

2024. No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway. (?)

2025. There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. (Viggo Mortensen)

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