Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Frictionary #314

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3056. The only wealth which will not decay is knowledge. (J.A. Langford)

3057. Making something useless with class is typically Italian. (Leo Bassi)

3058. To err may be human, but to admit it isn't. (Herbert V. Prochnow)

3059. Language is the House of Being. (Martin Heidegger)

3060. I think therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. (Milan Kundera)

3061. Our factory setting is self-interest. (Andrew Potter)

3062. There are plenty of fish in the sea, but half don't like your bait and the other half taste bad. (Sarah Jakubowski)

3063. Seattle is like the girl of your dreams...except that she's always sick. (Greg Dulli)

3064. We've always thought nepotism was okay as long as it was kept in the family. (Christine Lehman)

3065. To isolate yourself is to betray. (Victor Hugo)

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Frictionary # 313

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3046. To be uncertain is unconfortable, but to be certain is ridiculous. (Chinese proverb)

3047. "Ah, the book was much better than the movie." Oh, really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading. (Jim Gaffigan)

3048. The future is not an improved present. It's something else. (Elsa Triolet)

3049. Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. (Margaret Millar)

3050. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. (Franz Kafka)

3051. Not everything that can't be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

3052. The infinite has no expiration date. (Réjean Lévesque)

3053. There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. (Alfred Hitchcock)

3054. Ham and eggs...A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig. (?)

3055. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. (Phyllis Diller)

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Happy Holidays to everyone! And Peace on Earth, please.

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Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Frictionary # 312

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3036. The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. (Norman O. Brown)

3037. Man: a by-product of love. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

3038. Love vows is the sentimental form of the NSF cheque. (Georges-Armand Masson)

3039. 10% of people 24 and younger think it's OK to text during sex, (...). That brings a whole new meaning to the term "multitasking". (Brenna Ehrlich)

3040. People who sing their own praises are hopelessly out of tune. (Mardy Grothe)

3041. If the fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom, it is at least the beginning of religion. (George William Foote)

3042. Being happy is having gone beyond the worry brought by happiness. (Maurice Maeterlinck)

3043. A new survey found that only 25% of women are satisfied with their sex life. Although up to half of those women may have faked their answer. (Jimmy Fallon)

3044. Immortality exists; it's called knowledge. (?)

3045. Critics talk about art...artists talk about brushes. (Joe Haldeman)

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Sunday, December 05, 2010

The Frictionary # 311

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3026. Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. (David Sarnoff)

3027. "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know for sure if they are genuine." Abraham Lincoln. (?)

3028. Too many trials wear out freedom, too many proofs wear out truth. (Vincent Cespedes)

3029. Eternity - waste of time. (Natalie Clifford Barney)

3030. I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra. (Daniel Dennett)

3031. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow)

3032. So many programs to tell us how to cook, so few to teach us how to do the dishes. (Yves Pelletier)

3033. No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.* (Richard Petty)
*Why are there so many quitters then?

3034. Morality is what's left of fear once it has been forgotten. (Jean Rostand)

3035. A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. (Steven Wright)

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