Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Frictionary # 550

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5016. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

5017. A stumble may prevent a fall. (Thomas Fuller)

5018. Innuendos are the anonymous letters of conversation. (Claire de Rémusat)

5019. "Austerity" is a word said mainly by people with a full stomach. (Andy Borowitz)

5020. I was separated at birth. (J. Scott Wilson)

5021. Violence is the fruit of desire. (Buddha)

5022. In the realm of the deaf, the blind are mute. (Jacques Sternberg)

5023. Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. (Ogden Nash)

5024. I like writing my eights on their sides.  It's infinitely better. (?)

5025. We turn not older with years, but newer every day. (Emily Dickinson)

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Sunday, September 21, 2014

The Frictionary # 549

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5006. You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. (Henry Ford)

5007. Never knock on Death's door, ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that. (Matt Frewer)

5008. Pain is a great teacher; it teaches us that we are alive. (Dominique Lévy-Chédeville)

5009. My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience. (Jim Gaffigan)

5010. By itself, life is a quotation. (Jorge Luis Borgès)

5011. Whoever snuck the "s" in "fast food" is a clever person. (ComedyQuotez)

5012. Congratulation, n. The civility of envy. (Ambrose Bierce)

5013. We should try to be happy, if only to set a good example. (Jacques Prévert)

5014. Over 1,000 Black Holes exist on Earth now, cleverly disguised as the final hole on miniature golf courses. (Ed Allison -"Unstrange Phenomena")

5015. What remains 
of the mountain
sand between my toes.  (Annette Makino)

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

The Frictionary # 548

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4996. Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. (Hugh Miller)

4997. Dreams digest the meals that are our days. (Astrid Alauda)

4998. Stop being who you were and become who you are. (Paulo Coelho)

4999. When people yawn, do deaf people think they're screaming? (Michael Linhart)

5000. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. (George Carlin)

5001. The sea tucks up its foam-edged petticoat. (madeleinebleue)

5002. The grass may be greener on the other side but I tell myself it's just from envy. (missingblakes)

5003. There is a devil in every berry of the grape.* (The Koran)
* Was the Koran written by the AA?

5004. Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

5005. Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. (George Eliot)

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Sunday, September 07, 2014

The Frictionary # 547

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4986. Moderation is the last refuge for the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde)

4987. Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)

4988. I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic. (Leonard Bernstein)

4989. The wise man talks about ideas, the intelligent one about facts, the vulgar of what he eats. (Mongolian proverb)

4990. When in doubt, choose change. (Lily Leung)

4991. Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation.  The other eight are unimportant. (Henry Miller)

4992. Brain: organ, when you think about it, is actually working. (Michel Lauzière)

4993. Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.* (G.K. Chesterton)
* Mr. Chesterton has evidently never spent time in a schoolyard...

4994. I don't love you any more
I don't love you any less, either. (J. Scott Wilson)

4995. Those you forget will not forget you. (Victor Hugo)

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