Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Frictionary # 506

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4576. Science is what you know.  Philosophy is about what you don't know. (Bertrand Russell)

4577. Life is for each person a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. (Eugene O'Neill)

4578. Future: preserved time. (Michel Lauzière)

4579. "No pain, no gain" - and both of those things are totally fine by me. (Scott Feschuk)

4580. Before marriage a man yearns for a woman.  Afterwards the 'y' is silent. (W.A. Clarke)

4581. Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. (Cullen Hightower)

4582. Tupperware is the waiting room for the trash can. (B_poling82)

4583. Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow. (The Talmud)

4584. On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

4585. O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.  (William Shakespeare)

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Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Frictionary # 505

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4566. Stir the masses before using them.  Wise maxim. (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand)

4567. Ah, life is so daily. (Jules Lafargue)

4568. My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. (Mitch Hedberg)

4569. It is fear that first brought gods into the world. (Petronius)

4570. Criminal: person who earns a living doing something that doesn't pay. (Michel Lauzière)

4571. He who has never hoped can never despair. (George Bernard Shaw)

4572. The best things in life are not only free, they require less assembly. (Robert Brault)

4573. Jesus was a daddy's boy. (Yannick Vrolant)

4574. My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. (P.J. Plauger)

4575. Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain. (Robert E. Lee)

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Sunday, November 10, 2013

The Frictionary # 504

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4556. Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. (Khalil Gibran)

4557. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. (George MacDonald)

4558. Humor is the vaseline that facilitates penetration of ideas. (Lina Wertmüller)

4559. You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. (Joan Rivers)

4560. Men think about women.  Women think about what men think about them. (Peter Ustinov)

4561. Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. (Simone Weil)

4562. It is the secret of a summer shower
to steal the light and hide it in a flower.  (Alice Oswald)

4563. If everyone gives away advice, it's because nobody buys it. (Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn)

4564. The difference between a seducer and a rapist?  Patience. (?)

4565. If God made everything then he must be somewhere in China. (HalfJewHalfMisc)

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Sunday, November 03, 2013

The Frictionary # 503

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4546. Never make a decision when you're feeling guilty. (Stephen Colbert)

4547. Dreams have only one owner at a time.  That's why dreamers are lonely. (Erma Bombeck)

4548. Succeed: the best way to try. (Michel Lauzière)

4549. Vinegar: wine's angry brother. (Tom Robbins)

4550. Insomnia
all of my dreams
get to sleep in.  (Coyote Sings)

4551. The ideal woman is the one you discover once married. (Lionel Allard)

4552. Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. (Robert C. Savage)

4553. Facebook: department of planetary complaints. (Stéphane Laporte)

4554. If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color. (?)

4555. It doesn't help to have the "know-how" when the "know-why" is what you really need. (Mardy Grothe)

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