Sunday, March 31, 2013

The Frictionary # 432

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4236. Round numbers are always false. (Samuel Johnson)

4237. Fear is the brother of hate. (Larry Niven)

4238. It's been said that fear is the brother of hate, the mother of morality, the parent of cruelty.  Fear is very incestuous. (Réjean Lévesque)

4239. Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. (Jason Love)

4240. Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. (Rabindranath Tagore)

4241. Every exit is an entry somewhere else. (Tom Stoppard)

4242. Can you name a movie that was made into a book? (Pierre Foglia)

4243. I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know. (James Brown)

4244. A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. (?)

4245. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. (Miguel de Unamuno)

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

The Frictionary # 431

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4226. In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. (Stephen Leacock)

4227. Optimus Prime came out of the closet and confessed his auto-sexuality. (Billy Tellier)

4228. The more you understand, the less you have to remember. (Craig A. McGraw)

4229. Winter is not a season.  It's an occupation. (Sinclair Lewis)

4230. And if you have nothing to say, it's not worth it to let everybody know. (Francis Blanche)

4231. Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says the truth, you harvest what you sow. (Rumi)

4232. Hospital is a place where they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill. (Kelle Rizzio)

4233. I don't want to believe, I want to know. (Carl Sagan)

4234. Fortune cookie: "You will be hungry again in one hour." (?)

4235. When nothing is sure, everything is possible. (Margaret Drabble)

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Frictionary # 430

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4216. A laugh is a smile that bursts. (Mary H. Waldrip)

4217. You cannot desire what you do not know. (Ovid)

4218. Truth belongs to those who know early. (Billy Tellier)

4219. I recently turned 60.  Practically a third of my life is over. (Woody Allen)

4220. You can't really know what you want until you know you don't know what you want. (David Cain)

4221. The uterus is a timed rental.  The grave is property for life. (Malcolm de Chazal)

4222. Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Herman Melville)

4223. There are two kinds of time, the one that waits and the one that hopes. (Jacques Brel)

4224. Learn from your parents' mistakes: use birth control. (?)

4225. The Milky Way feeds her little stars from the Big Dipper. (Réjean Lévesque)

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Sunday, March 10, 2013

The Frictionary # 429

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4206. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Charlie Chaplin)

4207. To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was tautology. (Mark Twain)

4208. The camembert, the cheese that smells like God's feet. (Léon-Paul Fargue)

4209. It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. (Niccolo Machiavelli)

4210. Artificial insemination: procreation without representation. (Evan Esar)

4211. A pier is a disappointed bridge. (Julian Barnes)

4212. There will be no end of the world; our universe is self-composting. (Réjean Lévesque)

4213. An infinity of forests lie dormant within the dream of one acorn. (Wayne Dyer)

4214. Architects cover their mistakes with ivy, doctors with earth, and brides with sauce. (?)

4215, Bible: America's favorite national theatrical prop. (George Carlin)

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Sunday, March 03, 2013

The Frictionary # 428

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4196. An empty man is full of himself. (Edward Abbey)

4197. A conscience is what hurts when everything else feels great. (Mason Mastroiani-B.C.)

4198. Laughter is a weapon of mass derision. (Christian Vanasse)

4199. Lawyer: the only man in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Elbert Hubbard)

4200. God seems to spend entirely too much time helping people with awards. (Gary Zanetti)

4201. Generally, when a thing becomes useful, it ceases being beautiful. (Théophile Gautier)

4202. He was looking for love and found it in his mirror. (Réjean Lévesque)

4203. The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil. (Arab proverb)

4204. I steal the pauses
between your words
for a minute of silence.  (Coyote Sings)

4205. There are only two places in the world: over here and over there. (George Carlin)

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