Sunday, August 26, 2012

The Frictionary # 401

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3926. Ambition is the manure of glory. (Pietro Aretino)

3927. Influence: what you think you have until you try to use it. (Joan Welsh)

3928. The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. (George Carlin)

3929. Speech is the prime demonstration of the necessity of others. (Jacques Attali)

3930. Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. (Albert Einstein)

3931. We are so self-centered.  We talk to God and the Devil made us do it.  We don't deal with underlings. (Réjean Lévesque)

3932. Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. (May Sarton)

3933. This life is a hospital where every patient is consumed by the desire to change beds. (Charles Baudelaire)

3934. Living in the past has one thing going for it: it's cheaper. (?)

3935. Every thought reorders the universe. (William Stafford)

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Sunday, August 19, 2012

The Frictionary # 400

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3916. Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. (Alan Bennett)

3917. We are a very impressive species.(...) We put a man on the moon.  We even convinced the world that Sarah Jessica Parker is good looking. (Scott Feschuk)

3918. It is the margin that holds the page. (Jean-Luc Godard)

3919. When women argue, they don't use facts, they use questions. (Andrew Grose)

3920. There aren't any monsters under the bed because they all crawled out years ago and went into banking. (Wiley Miller - Non Sequitur)

3921. Money can't buy happiness, but you'll pay for it. (Grégoire Delacourt)

3922. Push the limits.  See if they push back. (Coyote Sings)

3923. In the kingdom of the word, the one-track minded man is king. (Tom Holt)

3924. Solitude is un-American. (Erica Jong)

3925. Faith is believing in a belief. (Réjean Lévesque)

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Frictionary # 399

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3906. There are two ways to be fooled.  One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true. (Søren Kierkegaard)

3907. There is no poorer use of time than watching a clock. (Devin Waugh)

3908. To love women, you should not know them, and to know them, you should not love them. (Edmond Jaloux)

3909. It takes time to save time. (Joe Taylor)

3910. I starve love to death so it will devour what it finds. (Octavio Paz)

3911. Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. (William Safire)

3912. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. (François de La Rochefoucaud)

3913. The difference between love and AIDS? AIDS is for life. (?)

3914. Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. (Irisa Hail)

3915. Crime does not pay...as well as politics. (Alfred E. Newman)

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Sunday, August 05, 2012

The Frictionary # 398

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3896. The faith in which you are raised is probably less important than the faith in which you are lowered. (Robert Brault)

3897. There's a diffrence between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. (Charles M. Schulz)

3898. I'll have politicians that take me for a joker notice that I didn't start this. (Coluche)

3899. Men dream more about returning than they do about leaving. (Paulo Coelho)

3900. Every word was once a poem. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

3901. Life's too short to fold fitted sheets. (Lisa Quinn)

3902. If you go back to school, be sure to go back far enough. (Réjean Lévesque)

3903. The world is round, it has no point. (Adrienne E. Gusoff)

3904. Silence is the only golden thing that women hate. (?)

3905. When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

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