Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Frictionary # 537

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4886. Things may be the way they are because of the way you are. (Mardy Grothe)

4887. When God is calling you, does his number show on your cell phone? (Stéphane Laporte)

4888. If God created the universe, explain Radio Shack. (Julius Sharpe)

4889. If fortune is blind, the rich is deaf. (Eugène Beaumont)

4890. The only reasonable excuse for procrastination is immortality. (Positively Wyrde)

4891. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. (Jimi Hendrix)

4892. Land-surveyor: visionary of roads. (Billy Tellier)

4893. Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little in office supplies. (Woody Allen)

4894. Why is it called "after dark" when it's really "after light".(?)

4895. Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man.  But they don't bite everybody. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

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Sunday, June 22, 2014

The frictionary # 536

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4876. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.  One helps you make a living and the other helps you make a life. (Sandra Carey)

4877. Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for truth. (Benjamin Disraeli)

4878. Only your real friends know where to hit you so it will hurt. (Bernard Werber)

4879. With just one finger
I make the clouds dance
in the pond. (Coyote Sings)

4880. A cannibal is a man who loves his neighbor with gravy. (Jean Rigaux)

4881. All religion (...), is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. (Edgar Allen Poe)

4882. Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. (Robert Southey)

4883. The hardest part of being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth. (Jemis)

4884. They make a round pizza, put it in a square box, and finally we eat it in triangles. (?)

4885. The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. (Phyllis Diller)

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Sunday, June 15, 2014

The Frictionary # 535

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4866. Never fear shadows.  They simply mean there's a light shining nearby. (Ruth E. Renkel)

4867. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. (William James -attributed)

4868. The human foetus is a human being until he becomes a politician. (Marc Boucher)

4869. Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. (Pablo Neruda)

4870. Fabric Care Symbols are really secret coded messages from Space Aliens. (Ed Allison -"Unstrange Phenomena")

4871. Life is full of little tests, and one big final exam. (Theodora Chester)

4872. Laughter is a destress signal. (Bruno Coppens)

4873. Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open. (Arnold H. Glasow)

4874. Enemies, yes, but doesn't your moat also keep out love? (Charles Barsotti)

4875. Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. (German proverb)

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Sunday, June 08, 2014

The Frictionary # 534

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4856. Love is how you stay alive after you are gone. (Mitch Albom)

4857. Good enough never is. (Debbi Field)

4858. We think we die for our country; we die for industrialists. (Anatole France)

4859. Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. (almightygod)

4860. -Why do you feel you're living on borrowed time?
          - Because time is money. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

4861. It is not because we name people or things that we know or understand them. (Réjean Lévesque)

4862. Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife. (Richard Armour)

4863. The ideal representation of calm is a sitting cat. (Jules Renard)

4864. Try to become friend with yourself and you will be rid of your worst enemy. (?)

4865. Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. (Adlai E. Stevenson)

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Sunday, June 01, 2014

The Frictionary #533

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4846. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. (Norman Cousins)

4847. I do something about the weather.  I stay home. (George Carlin)

4848. There is only one perfect order: the one in graveyards.  The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence. (Jean-Louis Gagnon)

4849. The best advice I can give anyone is to fall in love with someone you like. (Robert Brault)

4850. Do not ask what the Government can do for you.  Ask why it doesn't. (Gerhard Kocher)

4851. It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. (E.M. Cioran)

4852. A woman can put up with almost anything, anything but indifference. (Ian Fleming)

4853. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. (Novalis)

4854. Little children, headache; big children, heartache. (Italian proverb)

4855. Wisdom is learning to let go when you want to hang on.  Courage is learning to hang on when you want to let go. (Mark Amend)

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