Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Frictionary # 511

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4626. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. (J.M. Barrie)

4627. Normal is the average of deviance. (Rita Mae Brown)

4628. There is only one thing certain in life, it's that we lose it. (Marcel Achard)

4629. You exist in time but you belong to eternity.  You are a penetration of eternity in the world of time. (Shanti Dharm)

4630. If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. (Kin Hubbard)

4631. No man drowns if he perseveres in praying God, and can swim. (Russian proverb)

4632. In "maybe" there is life.  In "maybe" there is hope. (Richard Bohringer)

4633. Do not teach your children to be good.  Teach them why to be good.  They will learn the rest on their own. (Coyote Sings)

4634. Be a froot loop in a world of cheerios. (?)

4635. The largest living organism we know is the Earth.  For now. (Réjean Lévesque)

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Sunday, December 22, 2013

The Frictionary # 510

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4616. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Mark Twain -attributed)

4617. The average human has one breast and one testicle. (Des McHale)

4618. The law, with a great regard for equality, forbids the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges, from begging in the streets, and from stealing bread. (Anatole France)

4619. On the seventh day
God said
your turn.  (Coyote Sings)

4620. Appearances concern the one looking as well as the one appearing. (Quoc Dinh Nguyen)

4621. Being overwhelmed comes from a breakdown of your thoughts about your life, not a breakdown of your life. (David Cain)

4622. Aging is mandatory.  Maturity is optional. (Chris Antonak)

4623. Stupidity talks, vanity acts. (Victor Hugo)

4624. Grandfathers are just antique little boys. (?)

4625. Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. (Henry Miller)

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

The Frictionary # 509

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4606. A man sits as many risks as he runs. (Henry David Thoreau)

4607. I asked God about coincidences.  He rolled His eyes. (...) "I don't do coincidences.  No time."(John Butler)

4608. Men hunt, women fish. (Victor Hugo)

4609. The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. (Martin Mull)

4610. It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.(Mick Jagger)

4611. If you scratch the mad
You uncover the sad.  (Réjean Lévesque)

4612. What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning. (Charlie Chaplin)

4613. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.  It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.  It is the shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. (Crowfoot)

4614. Proverb: a capsule of popular wisdom we love to quote, for lack of acting on it. (Michel Lauzière)

4615. Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion is ancient.  It's called rain. (Michael McClary)

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Sunday, December 08, 2013

The Frictionary # 508

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4596. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. (Carl Jung)

4597. Proverbs are just vintage Tweets. (Jessica R. Cook)

4598. Happiness, unhappiness, the heart is a surveyor. (madeleinebleue)

4599. Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. (W.H. Auden)

4600. Luck is statistics taken personally. (Penn Gillette)

4601. Mystery is a safe
Whose combination
We have forgotten.  (Réjean Lévesque)

4602. Being married is 90% talking about what to have for dinner. (Julius Sharpe)

4603. Some of you say religion makes people happy.  So does laughing gas. (Clarence Darrow)

4604. Proving that I am right would be admitting that I could be wrong. (Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais)

4605. If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. (Thomas J. Watson Sr.)

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Sunday, December 01, 2013

The Frictionary # 507

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4586. Most people do not pray, they only beg. (George Bernard Shaw)

4587. That is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men.  They do not grow wise.  They grow careful. (Ernest Hemingway)

4588. A friend is someone on whom we can always count to count on us. (François Périer)

4589. With free speech, sometimes I think you get what you pay for. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

4590. Ambition is a dream with a V-8 engine. (Elvis Presley)

4591. The general opinion, these last years, can be summarized by "we must respect the differences, because there aren't any." (Claire Bretécher)

4592. My shadow is mad at me
It says, "You're in my light".  (Réjean Lévesque)

4593. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. (G.K. Chesterton)

4594. Mother match to her son, "Will you stop scratching your head!" (?)

4595. Men don't care what's on TV.  They only care what else is on TV. (Jerry Seinfeld)

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