Sunday, June 30, 2013

The Frictionary # 445

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4366. Life is "trying things to see if they work". (Ray Bradbury)

4367. Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. (Oscar Levant)

4368. Giving life to children without giving them love is like giving a flashlight without batteries. (Stéphane Laporte)

4369. "Nobody ever listens to me!" - The yellow traffic light. (Newfielover1)

4370. Your house must not be bigger than your heart, your bed not bigger than your sleep. (Tarun Jit Tejpal)

4371. Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. (George Jean Nathan)

4372. Is Sesame Street on Google Maps? (Réjean Lévesque)

4373. We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer.  (Emily Dickinson)

4374. If you chop wood in the forest, the echo tells on you. (African proverb)

4375. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. (Timothy Leary)

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Sunday, June 23, 2013

The Frictionary # 444

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4356. A book should be luminous, not voluminous. (Christian Nestell Bovee)

4357. Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

4358. Gifts are like advice: they especially please those who give them. (Émile Henriot)

4359. My lucky number is 911. (Tom Toles - Randolph Itch, 2 am)

4360. I'm honestly convinced some women don't fart.  They just hold it in, and it comes out as drama. (Michael Linhart)

4361. Poetry: the perfume of words. (Michel Lauzière)

4362. Never trust a woman who says she isn't angry. (Joel Schumacher & Karl Kurlander)

4363. Sometimes people get the wrong impression about us because that's the one we make. (Robert Brault)

4364. The greatest spokespersons for toilet paper are a dog, a cat, and bears.  I thought these were animals that licked their bums. (François Bouliane)

4365. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. (Franklin P. Jones)

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

The Frictionary # 443

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4346. A goal is a dream with a deadline. (Napoleon Hill)

4347. All men have something to hide.  The brighter the picture, the darker the negative. (Rupert Thorne)

4348. To have less dissatisfied people, we must always hit on the same persons. (Jacques Rouxel)

4349. Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. (Spanish proverb)

4350. Joy is not in things, it is in us. (Shanti Dharm)

4351. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. (Sam Levenson)

4352. Funny thing about humility.  Just when you think you've got it, you've lost it. (Kelle Rizzio)

4353. Warming for our planet is good, so she doesn't pull a muscle. (Jacques Chevalier)

4354. Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. (Mignon McLaughlin)

4355. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. (George Carlin)

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Sunday, June 09, 2013

The Frictionary # 442

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4336. There is strong shadow where there is much light. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

4337. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ((Germaine Greer)

4338. Work is the opium of the people and I don't want to die taking drugs. (Boris Vian)

4339. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. (Jim Rohn)

4340. I have nothing against truth except that it's such a blabbermouth. (Robert Brault)

4341. Have your photo taken.  If you appear on the photo, it means that you exist. (Ramon Gomez De La Serna)

4342. You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.
I have never met a heavy heart
that wasn't a phone booth with a red cape inside.  (Andrea Gibson)

4343. Memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup. (Elizabeth Bowen)

4344. When you argue with an idiot, be sure he's not doing the same thing. (?)

4345. The only problems money can solve are money problems. (L.J. Peter)

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Sunday, June 02, 2013

The Frictionary # 441

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4326. Don't worry about dying.  Worry about living. (Richard Lewis)

4327. The hourglass is emptying.
Each grain counts.  (madeleinebleue)

4328. A meal without wine is nothing more than breakfast. (Molly Mann)

4329. I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door.  It opens.  I've been knocking from the inside. (Rumi)

4330. Art is not a thing - it is a way. (Elbert Hubbard)

4331. What I like the least in others is me. (Francis Picabia)

4332. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. (Henry Ford)

4333. Look at half a glass of water.  Are you the pessimist or the optimist?  Drink it and be the problem solver. (Newfylover1)

4334. We never forgive those who make us blush. (Jean-François de La Harpe)

4335. Nothing ruins friendships like a game of Monopoly.  Or a baby. (Josh Boltz)

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