Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Frictionary # 240

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2316. Fate is the excuse of souls without will. (Romain Rolland)

2317. It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. (Samuel Levenson)

2318. Beware of memories, like you would of a watch that has stopped. (Georges Schéhadé)

2319. I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that. (Emo Phillips)

2320. The strain [swine flu] is constantly changing shape and mutating, like a microscopic version of Joan Rivers's face. (Scott Feschuk)

2321. Love is a sport, specially if there's one of the two who doesn't want to. (Jean Yanne)

2322. A heart that hurts
Is a heart that works. (Brian Molko)

2323. An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. (Orlando A. Battista)

2324. Life goes on. They are expanding the cemetery. (?)

2325. How young can you die of old age? (Steven Wright)

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Sunday, July 19, 2009

The Frictionary # 239

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2306. Confession is often an avoidance of change. (Hugh Prather)

2307. Best way to get rid of kitchen odors. Eat out. (Phyllis Diller)

2308. When there are ten steps to take towards someone, nine is only half way. (Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly)

2309. You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. (Dave Barry)

2310. Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher. (Don Marquis)

2311. An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. (Kahlil Gibran)

2312. We are always gauche when we pity others. (Jean-Paul Pinsonneault)

2313. Alimony: a gambling debt. (?)

2314. When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. (Geoffrey F. Fisher)

2315. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. (William Shakespeare)

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Frictionary # 238

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2296*. Things do not change. We change. (Henry David Thoreau)
* You may have noticed there was a skip from quote #2285 to quote #2296; it was caused by a brain cramp. Sorry!

2297. There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious. (Wei Wu Wei)

2298. Christian Fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. (Andrew Lias)

2299. People change and forget to tell each other. (Lillian Hellman)

2300. A snail is more often leaving than arriving. (Philippe Geluck)

2301. Nothing is more democratic than stupidity. (Marc Cassivi)

2302. Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. (Eric Hoffer)

2303. A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
That life is two locked boxes
Each containing the other's key. (Piet Hein)

2304. If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed. (?)

2305. Forgiveness is the final form of love. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

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Sunday, July 05, 2009

The Frictionary # 237

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2276. Truth exists; only lies are invented. (Horatius Bonar)

2277. Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no. (Woody Allen)

2278. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. (Spanish proverb)

2279. Today, what is not worth being said is sung. (Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais)

2280. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (Oscar Wilde)

2281. All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but half a truth. (William Matthews)

2282. Children bring consolation to everything...except having some. (Hippolyte Taine)

2283. Ignorance brings intolerance; most of all in those who ignore their ignorance. (Réjean Lévesque)

2284. If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0. (?)

2285. There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity. (Tom Peters)

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