Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Frictionary # 371

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3626. The more specific you are, the more general it will be. (Diane Arbus)

3627. To understand everything is to forgive everything. (Buddha)

3628. The Coran mentions that " He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh." This, apparently, does not apply to caricatures of the Prophet. (Réjean Lévesque)

3629. If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. (Dave Barry)

3630. Guilt is never to be doubted. (Franz Kafka)

3631. To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. (W.H. Auden)

3632. The cell phone is modern man's leash. (Stéphane Laporte)

3633. Fingernails are CREEPY. They're actually little windows to the inside of your fingers. (Lucy Ellmann)

3634. Alcohol doesn't solve any problem, but neither does milk. (?)

3635. Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. (William Penn)

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

The Frictionary # 370

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3616. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow)

3617. One only needs two tools in life: WD40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. (G. Weilacher)

3618. Moon is in its first quarter, but still hasn't scored. (Réjean Lévesque)

3619. I love hearts
They're made of meat.
Poets must die so I can eat. (Derek Thomas)

3620. A woman is a woman, she knows what she's worth and doesn't know what she wants. (Roch Carrier)

3621. Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. (Nicholas Ling)

3622. If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

3623. In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. (Jose Simon)

3624. Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. (Charles Dickens)

3625. When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not an agnostic, I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me. (George Carlin)

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Frictionary # 369

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3606. When Time is spent, Eternity begins. (Helen Hunt Jackson)

3607. I got a Wii Fit 'cause I'm Wii Fat. (Darcy Michael)

3608. What destroys the world is
Indifference. (Maurice Vidalin)

3609. Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. (Douglas William Jerold)

3610. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. (Khalil Gibran)

3611. The Mountain Syndrome: when you're on it, you don't see it. (Pierre Foglia)

3612. Taking the fast lane on the highway of life just gets you to the exit ramp sooner. (Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest))

3613. A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. (German proverb)

3614. Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals. (Steven Colbert)

3615. The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. (Malcolm de Chazal)

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Sunday, January 08, 2012

The Frictionary # 368

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3596. Wit is like money: we generally have it at other people's expense. (Claude Roy)

3597. People who love peeholes
are the most wonderful people in the world. ("Two and a Half Men")

3598. What is the dream that is worth more than reality? To dream of being married. (Diane de Beausacq)

3599. The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. (Wayne W. Dyer)

3600. Mexico: Afghanistan with margaritas. (Ron James)

3601. Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. (Euripides)

3602. Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. (Victor Hugo)

3603. The only people who should really sin
Are the people who can sin and grin. (Ogden Nash)

3604. Hell is not punishment, neither is heaven reward, it is consequence. (Onwuka Emeka)

3605. There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. (Jerry Seinfeld)

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Sunday, January 01, 2012

The Frictionary # 367

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3586. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. (Otto Rank)

3587. Imagine if nobody regarded anybody as a stranger, but instead just a person they didn't know. (David Cain)

3588. If you want to earn a living, all you have to do is work. If you want to become rich, you must find something else. (Alphonse Karr)

3589. The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. (Zen saying)

3590. No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. (Lily Tomlin)

3591. Just as pearls are the product of irritation, satirists are grains of sand in our oysters. (Réjean Lévesque)

3592. Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. (Benny Hill)

3593. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it. (Robert Orben)

3594. If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Juan Ramon Jiminez)

3595. Yes is the only living thing. (E.E. Cummings)

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