Sunday, September 30, 2012

The Frictionary # 406

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3976. Marriage: a word which should be pronounced "mirage". (Herbert Spencer)

3977. My soul is an empty carousel at sunset. (Pablo Neruda)

3978. Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on - to be motivated by - temptation. (Christopher Moore)

3979. We are too few to think too much, too many to think too little. (Françoise Sagan)

3980. Less is only more where more is no good. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

3981. Got bad news.  My grandfather, his hearing has AIDS.  It might have been from phone sex. (Nick Thune)

3982. Why can"t real life conversations have a maximum of 140 characters? (Dave Whamond - Reality Check)

3983. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. (Charles Baudelaire)

3984. The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. (Robert Brault)

3985. The best mirror does not reflect the other side of things. (Japanese proverb)

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

The Frictionary # 405

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3966. Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. (Vladimir Nabokov)

3967. Modern hip hop is like slavery.  It's only the value of the chains that change. (Benoît Parizé)

3968. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. (Carolyn Wells)

3969. The dog has more friends than people because he wags his tail more than his tongue. (Argentine proverb)

3970. I am a cage in search of a bird. (Franz Kafka)

3971. Getting even is easy, just multiply by two. (Jacob Ford)

3972. Don't depend too much on anyone.  Even your shadow leaves you when you're in darkness. (Ibn Taymiyyah)

3973. Bi-polar bears can be agressive. (madeleinebleue)

3974. It takes a long time to understand nothing. (Edward Dahlberg)

3975. The heart discovers, the head invents. (Arthur Cravan)

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

The Frictionary # 404

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3956. Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. (George Iles)

3957. My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch. (Jack Nicholson)

3958. What has never been questioned has not been proven. (Denis Diderot)

3959. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position. (Bill Maher)

3960. One life - a little gleam of time between two Eternities. (Thomas Carlyle)

3961. To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. (Jorge Luis Borgès)

3962. Silence is quiet.  Not deaf. (Jemis)

3963. Shhh!: the sound of a librarian fart. (WWWesty)

3964. The secret is always in the shape of an ear. (Jean Cocteau)

3965. The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. (Doug Larson)

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Sunday, September 09, 2012

The Frictionary # 403

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3946. War creates peace like hate creates love. (David L. Wilson)

3947. If you watch amateur porn you will never improve. (Andy Borowitz)

3948. He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. (Joseph Joubert)

3949. We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to apply it. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

3950. All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. (Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert)

3951. Jealousy is born with love but it does not always die with it. (François de La Rochefoucaud)

3952. My cat gets really pissed if you don't pay close attention to how aloof he's being. (James Ford)

3953. Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. (Christopher Morley)

3954. A good memory also means bad memories. (Réjean Lévesque)

3955. The bag of desires is bottomless. (Japanese proverb)

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Sunday, September 02, 2012

The Frictionary # 402

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3936. We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

3937. Out beyond
wrong and right,
there is a field.
I will meet you there.  (Rumi)

3938. A shitty speech therapist Yoda had. (NoogsCorner)

3939. Man is not made to live long; he is tainted by experience. (Jacques Chardonne)

3940. All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. (Bertrand Russell)

3941. "J": old "I" in a rocking chair. (Michel Lauzière)

3942. Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. (Norman Douglas)

3943. How much easier it is to be generous than just. (François du Jon aka Franciscus Junius)

3944. Virginity is something that is lost in great quantity, but strangely we never find it anywhere. (?)

3945. We don't get used to living.  Fortunately, because we would get bored to death. (Daniel Pennac)

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