Sunday, June 28, 2009

The Frictionary # 236

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2266. Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then". (Richard Abell)

2267. A friend in power is a friend lost. (Henry Brooks Adams)

2268. I try to think of our American equivalent to the sacred cow and all I can come up with is money. (Nightmare Brunette)

2269. To pass yourself off as someone else is not being snobbish, it's a mental disorder. (Réjean Lévesque)

2270. The bad news is: time flies. The good news is: you're the pilot. (Michael Althsuler)

2271. God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. (John Taylor)

2272. It's not an optical illusion. It just looks like one. (Steven Wright)

2273. Never have more children than you have car windows. (Erma Bombeck)

2274. There is no feminist way to be pregnant. (Denise Bombardier)

2275. Happiness is not the product of time, happiness is always in the present, a timeless state. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Frictionary # 235

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2256. You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty. (Cecil Baxter)

2257. Money is the best deodorant. (Elizabeth Taylor)

2258. You have to pay the teachers or else it's the children that pay. (Guy Bedos)

2259. Babies are such a nice way to start people. (Don Herold)

2260. Anger as soon as fed is dead
'Tis starving makes it fat. (Emily Dickinson)

2261. Whining is anger through a small opening. (Stuart Smalley)

2262. Death, that secret which will belong to everyone. (Claude Aveline)

2263. Mistakes show us what we need to learn. (Peter McWilliams)

2264. The more a diet is restrictive the more it feeds the conversation. (?)

2265. Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company. (Scott Adams)

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

The Frictionary # 234

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2246. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. (Morrie Schwartz)

2247. Being a snob is being seen without seeing. (Nelly Arcan)

2248. The less respect an older person deserves, the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger. (Robert A. Heinlein)

2249. There is no bad beer; some kinds are better than others. (German proverb)

2250. Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. (Lois Wyse)

2251. Women are charming, but dogs are so much more faithful. (Sacha Guitry)

2252. Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. (Mason Cooley)

2253. You're old when people tell you that you're still young. (?)

2254. Copyright is dead - because you cannot sign a pixel. (Christian Bok)

2255. The most important things in life aren't things. (Art Buchwald)

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Sunday, June 07, 2009

The Frictionary # 233

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2236. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. (Raymond Lindquist)

2237. I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. (Sally Kempton)

2238. If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have the Ten Commandments - we'd have the ten suggestions. (Malcolm Bradbury)

2239. Silence is noise taking a nap. (José Artur)

2240. On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. (H.L. Mencken)

2241. A stumble may prevent a fall. (Thomas Fuller)

2242. Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. (Alfred Hitchcock)

2243. Justice is kindness measured in millimeters. (Emma Andievska)

2244. Life is hard. So cry me a river. Build a bridge. Get over it. (?)

2245. To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

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