Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Frictionary # 218

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2086. You're just an empty cage if you kill the bird. (Tori Amos)

2087. A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. (Lysander Spooner)

2088. The Devil is following me night and day because he is afraid of being lonely. (Francis Picabia)

2089. Journalists are like dogs, whenever anything moves they begin to bark. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

2090. The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

2091. To be blunt, the best thing about man is the dog. (Nicolas Charlet)

2092. Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash. (Rita Mae Brown)

2093. The obstacle is the path. (Zen saying)

2094. If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential. (?)

2095. One of the most common of all diseases is the diagnosis. (Karl Kraus)

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Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Frictionary # 217

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2076. Trust is the first step to love. (Munshi Premchand)

2077. Behind every avalanche is a snowflake. (Becky Mallett)

2078. Television manufactures forgetting. Cinema manufactures memories. (Jean-Luc Godard)

2079. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. (Mark Twain)

2080. (P)rivacy, the last possession of the dispossessed. (Lester Bangs)

2081. I think I am, therefore I am. I think. (George Carlin)

2082. My idea of a Super Bowl is a toilet that cleans itself. (John Wagner as "Maxine")

2083. A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early. (Jan Gehl)

2084. Before you point your finger, be sure your hands are clean. (?)

2085. If you have no problems at your job, you don't have a job, you've got a hobby. (Ronald Dunn)

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Sunday, February 08, 2009

The Frictionary # 216

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2066. You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. (William Blake)

2067. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? (Stanislaw J. Lec)

2068. A politician can't succeed without a good memory, because he has to remember all the promises he has to forget. (Frédéric Dard)

2069. The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. (Virginia Woolf)

2070. My fear is that in a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom. (J.G. Ballard)

2071. Life will leave you if you don't live it. (Réjean Lévesque)

2072. Did St. Francis preach to the birds? (...) If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. (Rebecca West)

2073. Vice knows how to party. Virtue may as well try, it always turns into a mass. (François Parenteau)

2074. Good old times: when charity was more of a virtue than an income tax deduction. (?)

2075. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

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Sunday, February 01, 2009

The Frictionary # 215

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2056. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. (Erin Majors)

2057. I reinvented the past to see the beauty of the future. (Louis Aragon)

2058. Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one? (Bob Monkhouse)

2059. Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave. (Constantin Brancusi)

2060. Humor is a shadow of a doubt on things. (Roch Carrier)

2061. Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. (Zig Ziglar)

2062. Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. (Arnold Toynbee)

2063. Nature is a smiling killer. (Dennis Lehane)

2064. Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. (Dorothy Galyean)

2065. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. (Dennis Kucinich)

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