Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Frictionary #319

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3106. If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow. (Howard Hendricks)

3107. Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. (L.J. Peter)

3108. Happiness is pampering your addictions. (Réjean Lévesque)

3109. I hate change. I didn't used to...but I've changed. (Jim Davis (Garfield))

3110. Countries where honor is most important are those where people work the least. (Jean Dutourd)

3111. When I die, I'm going to leave my body to science fiction. (Steven Wright)

3112. How do you keep kids away from the Internet? Two words: Mandatory television. (Dennis Miller)

3113. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

3114. Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut? (?)

3115. Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Welsh proverb)

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Frictionary # 318

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3096. We only think when we are confronted with a problem. (John Dewey)

3097. Mirrors should reflect before sending images back. (Jean Cocteau)

3098. A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D.. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.. (Fats Domino)

3099. One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears. (Dean Rusk)

3100. We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. (Anaïs Nin)

3101. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well-lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. (Sanskrit proverb)

3102. They don't make bugs like Bunny anymore. (Olav Mjelde)

3103. There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on. (Rod Serling)

3104. In love, as in war, a fortress that parlays is half taken. (Marguerite de Valois)

3105. Anorexia is just another word for nothing left to lose. (Joy Behar)

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

The Frictionary # 317

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3086. Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies. (Walter Lippmann)

3087. We pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author. (Philip G. Hamerton)

3088. Experts say the earth's rotation is slowing down; it's probably due to the accumulation of National Geographic magazines in basements and the mass made by all those jars of pennies.* (Réjean Lévesque)
* 17 billion pennies put in circulation in the last 20 years - and that's only in Canada.

3089. Women and calendars are good only for one year. (Spanish proverb)

3090. The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed. (Clark Kerr)

3091. Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. (Tom Lehrer)

3092. Oral sex? Is it when you talk about it or when you listen to it? (Réjean Lévesque)

3093. Subtract the size of the world
From an empty stomach
And over the difference construct a roof. (Rebecca Gonzales)

3094. Thesaurus: n. Ancient reptile with large vocabulary. (?)

3095. I think I finally understand the Oscars. It's a chance for the movie industry to show people how boring television is. (Bill Maher)

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Sunday, January 09, 2011

The Frictionary # 316

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3076. Good is not good when better is expected. (Thomas Fuller)

3077. What's good with pessimism is that you can only have nice surprises. (Guy Bedos)

3078. What do you give a man who has everything? Penicillin. (Jerry Lester)

3079. Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. (Hafiz)

3080. Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. (Scott Adams)

3081. Be modest, it's the kind of pride that displeases the least. (Jules Renard)

3082. We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it. (Dave Barry)

3083. Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. (Joseph Stalin)

3084. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. (?)

3085. God cannot alter the past, but historians can. (Samuel Butler)

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Sunday, January 02, 2011

The Frictionary # 315

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3066. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.* (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
* Said one of the most quoted authors.

3067. "Tired cliché" is also a cliché, as well as a pleonasm. (Otto Penzler)

3068. You can only forget time by using it. (Charles Baudelaire)

3069. Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls-Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. (Warren Buffet)

3070. Conscience is the consequence of renouncement of pulsions. (Sigmund Freud)

3071. There was a time (...), when it was incredibly easy to love your neighbor because he was remote. (Pierre Foglia)

3072. Like the wind searching,
Lifting feathers round
the sparrow's neck,
Lifting leaves in a wave
across the bean field
I find no place
where I can say,
here my being ends. (Colin Oliver)

3073. What's the use in having thinner TVs if the programs get thicker. (Laurent Paquin)

3074. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing. (Peter F. Drucker)

3075. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it. (H.L. Mencken)

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