Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Frictionary # 358

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3496. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. (Rabindranath Tagore)

3497. I grab hope's tail
forgetting to watch out
for his teeth. (Coyote Sings)

3498. As women understand less and less, they believe themselves to be more and more misunderstood. (Étienne Rey)

3499. You own a dog; you feed a cat. (Jim Fiebig)

3500. The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong, but being certain. (Terry Pratchett)

3501. Philosophy is the art of putting up with other people's misfortunes. (Diane de Beausacq)

3502. Scientists are peeping toms at the key hole of eternity. (Arthur Koestler)

3503. When I grow up I want to be a little boy. (Joseph Heller)

3504. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. (?)

3505. Democracies only prepare for war after having declared it. (Georges Mandel)

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Frictionary # 357

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3486. One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. (Arthur C. Clarke)

3487. What's best in Sunday is still Saturday night. (Gilbert Cesbron)

3488. The rich never have to seek out their relatives. (Italian proverb)

3489. Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. (Al Boliska)

3490. True, human beings are equal, but the individuals are not. (Alexis Carrel)

3491. Pain always wins, eventually. (David Epstein)

3492. Time is like people, the more it gets old, the more it shrinks. (Réjean Lévesque)

3493. Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system. (P.J. O'Rourke)

3494. Cat
teaches me
that love is not always apparent. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3495. Those who know the least obey the more. (George Farquhar)

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

The Frictionary # 356

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3476. Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off. (Phyllis Diller)

3477. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. (Bob Dylan)

3478. I have but one word, but I have a poor memory. (Marcel Achard)

3479. Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. (Erma Bombeck)

3480. Adventure without risk is Disneyland. (Doug Coupland)

3481. Man is such a fool: he who cannot make a mite yet makes gods by the dozen. (Michel de Montaigne)

3482. You are the sun
on my shadow
of a doubt. (Coyote Sings)

3483. When leaves shake, it's not the roots' business. (Wole Soyinka)

3484. Airport: A place where people hurry up and wait. (Terry Pratchett)

3485. Alcohol kills slowly. We don't give a damn, we're in no hurry. (Georges Courteline)

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Sunday, October 09, 2011

The Frictionary # 355

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3466. If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. (David Rockefeller)

3467. Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. (Chinese proverb)

3468. Luck exists. If not, how could we explain other people's success. (Marcel Achard)

3469. When your IQ rises to 28, sell. (Irwin Corey)

3470. Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. (Charles Caleb Colton)

3471. Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. (Doug Coupland)

3472. Reasonable people have survived, passionate people have lived. (Sébastien Chamfort)

3473. If you have nothing to say, say nothing. (Mark Twain)

3474. They say time flies, but mine's first class. (Lil Wayne)

3475. I can forgive, but I can't forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive. (Henry Ward Beecher)

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Sunday, October 02, 2011

The Frictionary #354

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3456. Absence of proof is not proof of absence. (William Cowper)

3457. Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. (Kin Hubbard)

3458. How terrible it is to lengthten life by prolonging only old age. (Georget Bernier (Prof Choron))

3459. We can be sordid only if we work at it. (Brooke McEldowney)

3460. Don't throw in the towel. Recycle it. (Réjean Lévesque)

3461. Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one marked "Brightness" but it doesn't work. (Gallagher)

3462. Memory, this past in the present. (François Chalais)

3463. Christopher Columbus, (...), is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. (James Joyce)

3464. The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the knob also turns to the left. (?)

3465. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. (Warren Buffet)

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