Sunday, September 25, 2011

The Frictionary # 353

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3446. Desire often is a poor memory. (Daniel Boulanger)

3447. If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. (Robert Brault)

3448. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. (Franklin P. Jones)

3449. Political programs share something else with great literary classics: everybody talks about them, nobody has read them. (Nicolas Dickner)

3450. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. (Rabindranath Tagore)

3451. A black cat crossing your path signifies that the cat is going somewhere. (Groucho Marx)

3452. Clouds
in a puddle
raining on themselves. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3453. Writing is not a vocation but a firm desire to provoke. (Georges Raby)

3454. Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting. (Alan Dean Foster)

3455. Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. (J. Patrick Lewis)

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Frictionary # 352

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3436. To make mistakes is human, but profit by them is divine. (Elbert Hubbard)

3437. Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. (Evan Esar)

3438. Monsters have at least one purpose, that of telling us that we are not one. (Pierre Foglia)

3439. At the end of the universe, where light gives up hope and time chases its tail until it dies from exhaustion. (Christopher Moore)

3440. One thing that makes humans different from animals, is that they run toward a distress call rather than away from it. (Terry Pratchett)

3441. There is no natural selection anymore. The weak go through and the strong sleep. It's not a jungle, it's a biodome. ("Sexe Illégal")

3442. That sun! Such egocentrism. Thinks everything revolves around him. (Réjean Lévesque)

3443. People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash)

3444. Never fall in love. Try to rise in love. (Osho)

3445. Blame is for God and small children. (Dustin Hoffman)

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Frictionary # 351

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3426. Unless we remember we cannot understand. (E.M. Forster)

3427. Success is the lurking place of failure. (Lao Tzu)

3428. That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. (A. Whitney Brown)
3429. An opinion is shocking only when it's a conviction. (Rémy de Gourmont)

3430. The very essence of love is uncertainty. (Oscar Wilde)

3431. God made man in his image; the exhibitionist only pays him homage. (Jacques Prévert)

3432. Twitter
Is the tip of the iceblog
In an ocean of thought. (Keith Wilkinson)

3433. A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them. (Banksy)

3434. Chains provide warmth against the cold blast of freedom. (?)

3435. An arch never sleeps. (Indian proverb)

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Sunday, September 04, 2011

The Frictionary # 350

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3416. The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see. (G.K. Chesterton)

3417. Owl
Teaches me
That answers are really questions. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3418. If we are all God's children, what's so special about Jesus? (Jimmy Carr)

3419. Love is not blind, it is long-sighted. The proof is, it only begins to see the flaws when it withdraws. (Miguel Zamacoïs)

3420. Men like to save time because time is money. (Stéphane Laporte)

3421. Life is an incurable disease. (Abraham Cowley*)
* This quip has many authors, but Abraham Cowley was an English poet who died in 1667.

3422. The worst pain is in the solitude that comes with it. (André Malraux)

3423. A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping. (Kenneth Tynan)

3424. Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. (?)

3425. Loneliness is having no one to miss. (Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL))

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