Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Frictionary # 327

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3186. Don't call the world dirty because you forget to clean your glasses. (Aaron Hill)


3187. The grass isn't greener on the other side. There is no other side. The grass is green where you water it. (Ian Lawton)


3188. Women start by loving you; then, just like that, they don't love you anymore. They then say to you, "How you have changed." (Henri de Jouvenel)


3189. You cannot control things by fearing them. (Réjean Lévesque)


3190. It's not a smartphone when a pro athlete uses it. (Andy Borowitz)


3191. Diplomacy: short periods of fighting followed by long periods of negotiation. (Terry Pratchett)


3192. Giving blood is always better when it's by choice. ("Lève-toi et marche")


3193. It's hard to be modest when you live in the Milky Way. (Ken Croswell)


3194. Irritability: substitute for tobacco. (?)


3195. Love, that lamp we move around to find a new shadow. (Daniel Boulanger)


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Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Frictionary # 326

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3176. We don't need no gun control, we need bullet control. Bullets should cost five thousand dollars, then people would think before they killed somebody. (Chris Rock)

3177. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance. (Phyllis Diller)

3178. The art of conversation can be summarized in two words: "Ah?", "Oh!" (Nadine de Rothschild)

3179. When it melts
Ice with water
Reconciles. (Teitoku)

3180. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. (Michael Apostolius*)
*aka as Michel Apostolis.

3181. Fear is the parent of cruelty. (James Anthony Froude)

3182. You don't want to live in the past, but it is okay to visit now and again. (Mardy Grothe)

3183. It is said that the USA is a country in which religious tolerance is practiced. I think more practice is needed. (Réjean Lévesque)

3184. Smith & Wesson: the original point and click interface. (?)

3185. I don't understand the term "human race". Who are we competing against? (...) I'm betting on the cockroaches. (Joel Warshaw)

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

The Frictionary # 325

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3166. Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. (Margaret Atwood)

3167. People everywhere confuse what they read in the newspaper with news. (A.J. Liebling)

3168. The early bird gets the worm. I'd rather sleep in and have toaster muffins. (Shirley Lipner)

3169. The most ridiculous thing for a woman is to be a man. (Joseph M. de Maistre)

3170. Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything. (Steve Martin)

3171. Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. (Dave Barry)

3172. Seems like most rioting in the world happens in the countries with the least bacon. (Julius Sharpe)

3173. Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradictions: therefore it destroys freedom. (Albert Camus)

3174. Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget. (?)

3175. Television is a weapon of mass distraction. (Larry Gelbart)

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Sunday, March 06, 2011

The Frictionary # 324

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3156. That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. (Woodrow T. Wilson)

3157. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. (Rita Mae Brown)

3158. Unhappiness is not a symptom of intelligence. (David Desjardins)

3159. It ought to be plain
How little you gain
By getting excited
And vexed.
You'll always be late
For the previous train
And always on time
For the next. (Piet Hein)

3160. Imagine there's no heaven. I can. (Nasim Nicholas Taleb)

3161. One of the rarest things in this world is shared identical memories. (Réjean Lévesque)

3162. Mother Teresa: a fig wrapped in a napkin. ($#*! My Dad Says)

3163. Obama picks up his dog's poop and the Bush administration's too. (Stéphane Laporte)

3164. When two people become one, you lose someone. (?)

3165. Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. (Malcolm Muggeridge)

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