Sunday, July 26, 2015

The Frictionary # 592

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5446. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison)

5447. There is enough in the world for everyone's need; there is not enough for everyone's greed. (Gandhi)

5448. Real happiness won't give his sources...he doesn't want to make God jealous. (Daniel Pennac)

5449. Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. (R.A. Dickson)

5450. Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. (Thomas Mann)

5451. With all the misery everywhere, I think that God is not rich. (Victor Hugo)

5452. My inner voices are silent
They must be scheming some mischief. (Réjean Lévesque)

5453. But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence. (George Byron)

5454. What's the use of mathematics if we can't count on each other.(?)

5455. Longing (...) is the replaying of a memory after its blemishes have been removed. (Mahmoud Darwish)

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

The Frictionary # 591

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5436. To be free is nothing, to become free is everything. (Friedrich Hegel)

5437. Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. (James Thurber)

5438. Childhood doesn't last. We always end up by killing it. We then drag its corpse the rest of our lives. (Jacques Brault)

5439. Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. (Warren Buffet)

5440. The most intriguing thing about memory is not what we remember, but what we forget. (Mardy Grothe)

5441. Truth can only live in the now
Lies dead in the past
Dreams shimmering in the future. (Réjean Lévesque)

5442. When people say my children look like me. it always feels a little like an insult. (Jim Gaffigan)

5443. I dislike censorship. Like an appendix, it is useless when inert and dangerous when active. (Maurice Edelman)

5444. Whoever came up with the phrase :"The freaks come out at night" has clearly never been to Walmart during the day. (?)

5445. What I like about you is my memories. (Alain-Fournier)

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Frictionary # 590

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5426. Time: that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. (Herbert Spencer)

5427. My motto is my blood type: "Be positive." (Jonathan Rubin)

5428. Life is sailing on an ocean of uncertainty while provisioning in the archipelagoes of certainty. (Edgar Morin)

5429. Women - God's version of the Rubik cube. (Maderchaud)

5430. All bad people drink water: this has been proven by the Flood. (Louis-Philippe de Ségur)

5431. A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. (Carolyn Wells)

5432. The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in between. (J. Michall Straczynski)

5433. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. (L.J. Peter)

5434. As I grow older and older
And totter toward the tomb
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom. (Dorothy L. Sayers)

5435. Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. (Lin Yutang)

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Sunday, July 05, 2015

The Frictionary # 589

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5416. You can only lose what you cling to. (Buddha)

5417. Someday is not a day of the week. (Henry David Thoreau)

5418. Celebriety: state of euphoria caused by an overdose of celebrity. (Réjean Lévesque)

5419. I don't believe in hope. Hope is the beggar. (Jim Carrey)

5420. There is no such thing as soy milk, it's just soy juice. (Lewis Black)

5421. Fear does not prevent death, it prevents life. (Naguib Mahfouz)

5422. The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of architect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

5423. Fame always brings loneliness.* (Vicki Baum)
* Reminded of Robin Williams.

5424. I eat my gummy bears 2 at a time...no one should die alone. (blondebombs)

5425. Life is a slumber, love is its dream
And you will have lived if you have loved. (Alfred de Musset)

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