Sunday, July 29, 2012

The Frictionary # 397

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3886. To err is human: to forgive, infrequent. (Franklin P. Jones)

3887. Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus. (Thomas Carlyle)

3888. Human stupidity is the only thing that gives us an estimate of infinity. (Ernest Renan)

3889. Life is a cement trampoline. (Howard Nordberg)

3890. When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. (Lin Yutang)

3891. Media, the plural of mediocrity. (Jimmy Breslin)

3892. For God's sake.  Why would God favor a Japanese alcoholic beverage? (Réjean Lévesque)

3893. "No" is a complete sentence. (Anne Lamott)

3894. I think, therefore Descartes exists. (Saul Steinberg)

3895. It's never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Frictionary # 396

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3876. You can cage the singer but not the song. (Harry Belafonte)

3877. There's a reason dogs are man's best friend.  They're the ones that leave the seat up. (Glenn McCoy - The Duplex)

3878. God created women so he could tame men. (Voltaire)

3879. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.  Help someone's soul to heal.  Walk out of your house like a shepherd. (Rumi)

3880. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. (Rudyard Kipling)

3881. Marriage divides the burden by multiplying it. (Robert Sabatier)

3882. Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. (Doug Larson)

3883. Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. (William B. Given)

3884. A good length for legs is when your feet really touch the ground. (Coluche)

3885. Free advice is worth the price.(Robert Half)

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Frictionary # 395

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3866. The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. (Madeleine L'Engle)

3867. Know what is nice about religion?  God is always right. (Ronald King)

3868. Civilization started because people found that by working together, they could make beer. (Robert G Schreib Jr.)

3869. A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die.  A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry. (Octavio Paz)

3870. If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.(Andy Rooney)

3871. Help conquer the IQ shortage: worry less and think more. (Robert Anton Wilson)

3872. The more we know, the more we are able to learn. (Alain)

3873. If most of your questions start with "supposing...", they will be tagged as "suppository". (Réjean Lévesque)

3874. Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.  Religion is answers that may never be questioned. (?)

3875. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. (Tom Robbins)

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Frictionary # 394

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3856. When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. (Henny Youngman)

3857. Society (...) is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. (Arthur Stringer)

3858. Why do we treat the fleeting
With so much needless fear and sorrow
It's in its nature to stay
Today is always gone tomorrow. (Wislawa Szymborska)

3859. A C-section is the DiGiorno of childbirth because it's not really delivery. (Nick Thune)

3860. We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.(Max DePree)

3861. The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked. (Elbert Hubbard)

3862. The weight only feels strong in the scales. (Malcolm de Chazal)

3863. A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. (Henry Fielding)

3864. If hours didn't exist, would time pass anyway? (...) Or, does God have a watch? (Pierre Foglia)

3865. I went shopping for feminine protection.  I decided on a thirty-eight revolver. (Karen Ripley)

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Sunday, July 01, 2012

The Frictionary # 393

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3846. Prayer must never be answered; if it is, it ceases to be a prayer and becomes a correspondence. (Oscar Wilde)

3847. The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman. (Randy K. Milholland)

3848. Faith, blindness giving sight to hope. (Roger Judrin)

3849. My mom breast-fed me.  It was only 2 percent. (Wendy Liebman)

3850. Cinema is canned theater. (Louis Jouvet)

3851. Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female. (Desmond Morris)

3852. Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. (Barbara Tober)

3853. Nothing can ever happen twice
In consequence, the sorry fact is
That we arrive here improvised
And leave without the chance to practice. (Wislawa Szymborska)

3854. The best way to go to couples counseling is alone. (Richard Lewis)

3855. The best way to break a habit is to drop it. (Leo Aikman)

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