Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Frictionary # 410

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4016. Infinite patience brings immediate results. (Wayne Dyer)

4017. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. (Sam Levenson)*
*This quote is frequently attributed to Audrey Hepburn.

4018. I set the bar high, especially for limbo. (Réjean Lévesque)

4019. God is the present tense.  That's why it's so hard to seize the moment.  God is the eternal Now. (Anna Kamienska)

4020. Wisdom is knowing the difference between prudence and fear. (Positively Wyrde aka Bauke Kamstra)

4021. Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant.  It tends to get worse. (Molly Ivins)

4022. We only reach serenity when we have banished hope from our lives. (Gilles Archambault)

4023. Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. (Vanessa Redgrave)

4024. Education does not consist in force feeding but in making hungry. (Michel Tardy)

4025. A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. (Julie Burchill)

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Frictionary #409

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4006. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. (Thornton Wilder)

4007. Truth: practically, what the politician says at the moment he says it.  In fact, what the voter ignores. (Simon Jodoin)

4008. Since my house burned down
I now own a better view
of the moon. (Mizuta Masahide)

4009. If love is forever, why do we die. (Jemis)

4010. I think I'm allergic to chocolate.  My butt and thighs are showing definite signs of swelling. (FunnyOneLiners)

4011. The mosquito has no pity for the skinny man. (Mongolian proverb)

4012. Life is made of illusions.  Among these, some succeed.  They constitute reality. (Jacques Audiberti)

4013. It is impossible for a cyclops to wink. (Demetri Martin)

4014. Desire perishes
because it tries to be love.
Love is eaten away by appetite. (Jack Gilbert)

4015. Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming. (George Carlin)

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

The Frictionary # 408

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3996. Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? (Henry Finck)

3997. There is no shame in being happy. (Albert Camus)

3998. Never cram for a prostate exam. (Jacob Ford)

3999. Even subtraction is never loss,
just addition somewhere else. (Mary Cornish)

4000. Provocation is a way of getting reality back on its feet. (Bertolt Brecht)

4001. Without memory, our world would become incomprehensible. (Réjean Lévesque)

4002. Clocks slay time (...); time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. (William Faulkner)

4003. Life is like a box of cereal, it's only when you reach the bottom that you get the surprise. (Billy Tellier)

4004. The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, and wills. (Richard J. Needham)

4005. Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. (George Carlin)*
*The quote has also been attributed to quite a few authors.  Thanks to Barry Popik, here is the link http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/05/dance-insane/

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Sunday, October 07, 2012

The Frictionary # 407

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3986. A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. (Alfred E. Wiggam)

3987. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. (Italo Calvino)

3988. Twitter is an amazing source of useful information, the way a haystack is an amazing source of needles. (Andy Borowitz)

3989. Superstition is the art of putting our coincidences in order. (Jean Cocteau)

3990. Everyone has a flower inside, and inside the flower is a word. (Seri* proverb)
* A Mexican Indian tribe.

3991. When in doubt you might be right. (Richard Lewis)

3992. I don't know if people who have lots of material things are the happiest, but they put on the best yard sales. (Robert Brault)

3993. Priests are against sex before marriage; they say it delays the ceremony. (Coluche)

3994. When taking the picture of a mouse, never say, "Cheese!". (Réjean Lévesque)

3995. Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. (Theodore Roosevelt)

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