Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Frictionary # 275

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

2666. Who kills for love of god kills love
Who kills in name of god leaves god
Without a name (Wole Soyinka)

2667. In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down. (Brian Weir)

2668. Some think that "here" can only be here, but there are "heres" everywhere. I know because a moment ago I was over there and they told me, "What are you doing here?". (Philippe Geluck)

2669. If you want to know the truth about yourself, insult your neighbor. (Czech proverb)

2670. The summary of all the advice of the prophets is this: Find a mirror. (Shams Tabrizi)

2671. Magnetism, (...) is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. (Dave Barry)

2672. Christianism did not invent modesty, it invented its hypocrisy. (Rémy de Gourmont)

2673. Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? (Clifford Stoll)

2674. Any fool can use a computer. Many do. (?)

2675. The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. (Doug Larson)

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

The Frictionary # 274

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

2656. If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? (Gloria Steinem)

2657. If Google is so great, why can't it find my sanity? (Chris Pirillo)

2658. Heroes don't last (...) because heroes are like cut flowers. (...). The only heroes that last are the ones who are dead. (Stéphane Laporte)

2659. You are water
I'm water
We're all water in different containers
That's why it's so easy to meet
Someday we'll evaporate together. (Yoko Ono)

2660. Some guy hit my fender, and I said to him, "Be fruitful and multiply", but not in those words. (Woody Allen)

2661. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backward. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

2662. You can fake courage, not wit. (Paul Morand)

2663. The Greek have invented two things they cannot put into practice: democracy and restaurants. (Daniel Pinard)

2664. I try to watch what I eat, but my eyes aren't always fast enough. (?)

2665. None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. (Benjamin Whichcote)

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

The Frictionary # 273

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2646. We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. (Ayn Rand)

2647. Naturalized citizen - One who becomes a citizen with his clothes on. (L.J. Peter)

2648. You can never be totally right until you are totally dead. (Christian Mistral)

2649. Credit is a wonderful gimmick that lets you start at the bottom and dig yourself into a hole. (Edgar Argo)

2650. Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation. (Gerhard Kocher)

2651. Your body is where it is; your mind is where you put it. (Larry Short)

2652. Pears hold their heads up high
They have cello-shaped waists and curvy hips
Buddha adopted their way of sitting
In order to reside inside nothingness. (Shai Dotan)

2653. The worst of the worst is waiting for the worst. (Daniel Pennac)

2654. TGIF: Twitter, Google, Internet, Facebook. (?)

2655. Nothing is so fatal as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. (Edmund Burke)

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Sunday, March 07, 2010

The Frictionary # 272

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2636. Life itself is a quotation. (Jorge Luis Borges)

2637. Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. (Will Rogers)

2638. Real independence consists in depending on whom we want to depend. (Frédéric Dard (San Antonio)

2639. A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. (Erma Bombeck)

2640. Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. (Leo Rosten)

2641. Women always want to change men, men always want to trade women. (Anne Roumanoff)

2642. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. (Lao Tzu)

2643. The butterfly. A love-letter folded in two looking for the address of a flower. (Jules Renard)

2644. Health: the slowest possible rate at which one can die. (?)

2645. A politician is like a contraceptive: he gives a reasonable feeling of security while you're being screwed. (Charles Ottinger)

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