Sunday, August 25, 2013

The Frictionary # 453

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4446. Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. (Baltasar Gracian)

4447. To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. (Oscar Wilde)

4448. One nice evening the future is called the past. (Louis Aragon)

4449. Remove an "a"
And the palace
Is just a place. (Réjean Lévesque)

4450. People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers. (John Irving)

4451. Sleep is the best meditation. (Tenzin Gyatso aka the Dalai Lama)

4452. You ran a half-marathon? Wow! Half congratulations. (Julius Sharpe)

4453. Forgiveness is not at the end of the road; it is the road. (Françoise Chandernagor)

4454. The difference between dying of cancer and dying of AIDS?  With cancer, you get visitors. (?)

4455. Freedom is largely a matter of seeing that there are alternatives. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

The Frictionary # 452

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4436. Every question is a cry to understand the world.  There is no such thing as a dumb question. (Carl Sagan)

4437. The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. (Willie Tyler)

4438. Women!  You can't make head or tail of them. (Malcolm de Chazal)

4439. Proverbs are potted wisdom. (Charles Buxton)

4440. The hardest for politicians is to remember all the things they mustn't say. (Coluche)

4441. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. (Elie Wiesel)

4442.The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality. (Andrew Solomon)

4443. Word-of-mouth is the ancestor of YouTube. (Patrice Lécuyer)

4444. Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. (Rabindranath Tagore)

4445. Irony is a sadness that cannot cry and smiles. (Jacinto Benavente)

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

The Frictionary # 451

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4426. Every question is a cry to understand the world.  There is no such thing as a dumb question. (Carl Sagan)

4427. The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. (Willie Tyler)

4428. Women!  You can't make head or tail of them. (Malcolm de Chazal)

4429. Proverbs are potted wisdom. (Charles Buxton)

4430. The hardest for politicians is to remember all the things they mustn't say. (Coluche)

4431. An empty poet
has no shadow. (Positively Wyrde)

4432. It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. (Herbert Samuel)

4433. A secret is worth what those who have to keep it are worth. (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

4434. Whoever came up with the phrase "the freaks come out at night" has clearly never been to Walmart during the day. (?)

4435. If it's all the same to history, it need not repeat itself anymore. (Robert C. Edwards)

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Sunday, August 04, 2013

The Frictionary # 450

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4416. If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.  204 if you're in Japan. (Claire Cook)

4417. To write prose, you must have something to say; to write verse, it is not essential. (Louise Ackerman)

4418. After vaudeville died, television was the box they put it in. (Larry Gelbart)

4419. Everyone knows that the dot belongs not to human beings, but the dot belongs to the gods.  The gods will get the final dot. (Lázló Krasznahorkai)

4420. People who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. (Edward Verrall Lucas)

4421. A coffin - you buy it and use it only once, then you bury it.  It's like when you buy a cat. (Cathleen Rouleau)

4422. If your religion is worth killing for, start with yourself. (Gerry Duggan)

4423. Creationists believe every word Genesis says.  I don't even think Phil Collins is a good drummer. (Jimmy Carr)

4424. Being rich is not having money, it's spending it. (Sacha Guitry)

4425. Science is the topography of ignorance. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

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