Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Frictionary # 366

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3576. Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting. (Robert Frost)

3577. Without imagination, love doesn't stand a chance. (Romain Gary)

3578. Every time I find out the meaning of life, they change it. (Debbie Winkler Estes)

3579. A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer. (Mitch Hedberg)

3580. Mistletoe: the only time of year they made sexual harassment acceptable. (Russell Peters)

3581. Sundial
I stand in the shadow
of time. (Coyote Sings)

3582. I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. (George Bernard Shaw)

3583. Rapper's Christmas song: "Jingle Bitch". (Sylvain Larocque)

3584. There are four stages in a man's life: 1) he believes in Santa; 2) he doesn't believe in Santa; 3) he is Santa; 4) he looks like Santa. (?)

3585. Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. (Samuel Johnson)

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

The Frictionary # 365

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3566. The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. (Tom Bodett)

3567. God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.* (Empedocles)
* Blaise Pascal had the same observation but replaced "God" by "Nature".

3568. I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. (Billy Joel)

3569. Astronomers must be the luckiest people in the world; they have so many stars to wish upon. (Réjean Lévesque)

3570. A wink is a pose, a pose is a mask, and a mask is a forgery. (Stephen Thompson)

3571. Alas for those who never sing
But die with all their music in them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

3572. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. (Steve Martin)

3573. Exaggeration is the honest man"s lie. (Joseph de Maistre)

3574. Logic is the anatomy of thought. (John Locke)

3575. It is alright to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. (Richard Armour)

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Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Frictionary # 364

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3556. Negating God is to deny yourself the only interest presented by death. (Sacha Guitry)

3557. We are gods with anuses. (Ernest Becker)

3558. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. (Frederick the Great of Prussia)

3559. Outside the gallery
a sunset hangs
unsigned. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3560. Woman is a flower that gives its perfume only in the shade. (Félicité de Lamennais)

3561. Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. (Bernard Berenson)

3562. Know that the Internet has no eraser. (Liz Strauss)

3563. What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)

3564. Space is the corpse of time.* (Zebulon Pike)
*Title of CD by Zebulon Pike (the band).

3565. In my house, I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. (Woody Allen)

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Sunday, December 04, 2011

The Frictionary # 363

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3546. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long,
Has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. (Richard Armour)

3547. Belief is a wonderful thing for those who need it. (Terry Pratchett)

3548. Progress doesn't always bring you what you want. Because what you want is always what you know. (Stéphane Laporte)

3549. Man plans and God laughs. (Yiddish proverb)

3550. Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life - except religion. (Christopher Hitchens)

3551. Never say bad things about the illiterate. Better write them down. (Walter)

3552. The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity. (George Orwell)

3553. Appromimately 99% of ITunes revenues come from drunk people after 11 PM. (Andy Borowitz)

3554. The future belongs to those who get up early, especially in the morning. (?)

3555. When you have faith, you can do without the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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