Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Frictionary # 388

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3796. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

3797. If silence were truly golden, women would shut up more. (Jacob Ford)

3798. I try to explain why he's silent: either God is a myth, or he's deaf, or it's contempt. (Francis Blanche)

3799. Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. (Doug Horton)

3800. He who has a why can endure any how. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

3801. I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.  (Ogden Nash)

3802. Finding nothing ridiculous is the sign of a complete intelligence. (Valéry Larbaud)

3803. Remember, if you smoke after sex, you're doing it wrong. (Woody Allen)

3804. When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day. (Sam Ewing)

3805. The ignorant have an answer for everything. (Mardy Grothe)

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

The Frictionary #387

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3786. I'm offended by political jokes.  Too often, they get elected. (Henny Youngman)

3787. Love is blind, so if it hasn't found you yet, keep screaming. (Jacob Ford)

3788. The world is controlled by ideas, mostly the bad ones. (Jean-François Revel)

3789. Lying is the religion of slaves and masters. (Maxim Gorki)

3790. Time is only linear for engineers and referees. (Craig Ferguson)

3791. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

3792. When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day. (Sam Ewing)

3793. The first condition of immortality is death. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

3794. Our president (Obama) is conducting three wars and has a Nobel Peace Prize. (Greg Proops)

3795. Cats
invented
the Occupy movement.  (Cletis Stump)

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

The Frictionary # 386

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3776. A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. (James Reston)

3777. Sunday morning
my kidneys turning wine
into water.  (Coyote Sings)

3778. Death only lasts one second: the first one. (Gilbert Senecaut)

3779. When desire dies, fear is born. (Baltasar Gracian)

3780. Twitter is like some kind of pathetic take-out window. (Garry Shandling)

3781. Lack of knowledge is my Achille's knee. (Jim Gaffigan)

3782. Who can we count on today?  I know I can count on my fingers. (Réjean Lévesque)

3783. Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. (Jerry Seinfeld)

3784. There are only two days of the year in which nothing can be done.  One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow. (Dalai Lama)

3785. The wider the tires, the narrower the mind. (Susan Gawarecki)

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Sunday, May 06, 2012

The Frictionary # 385

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3766. The greatest productive force is human selfishness. (Robert A. Heinlein)

3767. Nature abhors a vacuum; so she fills it with all kinds of stuff. (Thomas de Koninck)

3768. We should therefore claim in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. (Karl Popper)

3769. Desire and needs are communicating vessels. (Patrick Lagacé)

3770. If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe. (Robert Brault)

3771. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. (Bil Keane)

3772. Talking about silence, it is, alas, often mistaken for forgetting. (Pierre Foglia)

3773. Love needs room to grow, like a rose.  Or a tumor. (Christopher Moore)

3774. Do not be afraid of the horses under the hood, but fear the ass behind the wheel. (?)

3775. Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. (Ogden Nash)

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