Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Frictionary # 427

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4186. Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. (H.L. Mencken)

4187. The scariest thing a doctor can tell you: "It's probably nothing...".(Dave Barry)

4188. Fear of the adjective is the beginning of style. (Paul Claudel)

4189. Don't believe in tradition.  It is a form of laziness. (Leopold Stokowski)

4190. Life is a bridge over the sea of changes.  Do not build a house on it. (Sathya Sai Baba)

4191. Nothing is impossible; the word itself says "I'm possible". (Audrey Hepburn)

4192. What is the minimum payment for something that is priceless? (Réjean Lévesque)

4193. Cable TV is now evenly divided between shows about preparing food and shows about losing weight. (Andy Borowitz)

4194. Is criticism about the subject
Or the cleverness of the critic.  (Positively Wyrde*)
*AKA  Bauke Kamstra.

4195. The quieter you become, the more you can hear. (Ram Dass)

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

The Frictionary # 426

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4176. Dreams can come true.  Especially the boring ones. (Mike Baldwin - Cornered)

4177. A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. (Doug Larson)

4178. The mind draws the line on the page where the heart will write the melody. (Réjean Lévesque)

4179. Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. (Stephen Fry)

4180. Testing is not teaching. (Joy Behar)

4181. If God had not created woman, he would not have made the flower. (Victor Hugo)

4182. Those that can't do teach, and those that can't teach, teach gym. (Woody Allen)

4183. The true paradises are the paradises we have lost. (Marcel Proust)

4184. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.  At night, the ice weasels come. (Matt Groening)

4185. Nostalgia: n., Life in the past lane. (Mardy Grothe)

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Frictionary # 425

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4166. So often the last place we think to look for happiness is where we left it. (Robert Brault)

4167. The tree was old, the bird sang louder. (madeleinebleue)

4168. You think you'll be missed
It won't last long
I promise.  (Michael Dickman)

4169. Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. (Doug Larson)

4170. Nothing beats solitude.  To be perfectly happy, all that I need is someone to whom I can explain it. (Sylvain Tesson)

4171. Don't watch the clock, do what it does.  Keep going. (Sam Levenson)

4172. Education is a state-controled manufactory of echoes. (Norman Douglas)

4173. Thinking is kind of talking to yourself and listening. (Réjean Lévesque)

4174. If you can't laugh at yourself, I'll do it for you. (?)

4175. The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another. (Dan Bennett)

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Sunday, February 03, 2013

The Frictionary # 424

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4156. There are no warlike peoples - just warlike leaders. (Ralph Bunche)

4157. Humor is the politeness of the desperate. (Boris Vian)

4158. From the sequenced larval mass of creation
that binds us with the others,
all playing the endgame of a beautiful planet.  (Alison Hawthorne Deming)

4159. Farts are just food ghosts. (vhstapes2)

4160. Yesterday's victims are tomorrow's executioners. (Victor Schoelcher)

4161. The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. (Robert Brault)

4162. Please, don't call politicians "civil servants" because they are neither. (Réjean Lévesque)

4163. Each moment is a place you've never been. (Mark Strand)

4164. Fear is the highest fence. (Dudley Nichols)

4165. Insomnia: night disturbance from upstairs. (Sylvain Tesson)

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