Monday, December 28, 2015

The Frictionary #614

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5666. Don't let your luggage define your travels. Each life unravels differently. (Shane Koyczan)

5667. My father confused me. From the age of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ. (Bill Cosby)

5668. Happiness is not reaching the summit of the mountain, nor climbing its slopes aimlessly, but living the experience of the ascent. (Tal Ben-Shahar)

5669. Boredom is an emptiness filled with persistence. (Leo Stein)

5670. If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. (Jules Renard)

5671. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was excellent. (Ashi Labouisse)

5672. Fire purifies
That's why
Hell is full of it. (Réjean Lévesque)

5673. It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there, because it's not sadness (...). It's that cold absence of feeling. (J.K. Rowling)

5674. Fear and love do not eat from the same plate. (Spanish proverb)

5675. One doesn't have a sense of humor, it has you. (Larry Gelbart)

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Sunday, December 20, 2015

The Frictionary # 613

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5656. Man is the animal who loves. (Archibald McLeish)

5657. I lost my watch.
All I have left
is time. (Réjean Lévesque)

5658. Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. (Humphrey Carpenter)

5659. I don't think it's bad if you don't believe in astrology. It's the people who don't believe in astronomy that scare me. (Coyote Sings)

5660. Fate is the disguise that chance uses to travel without being spotted. (Denis Langlois)

5661. It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. (Robert Lindner)

5662. -The ancient Greeks didn't have a symbol for zero.
- They left nothing to the imagination. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

5663. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. (Paulo Coelho)

5664. -Is God a man or a woman?
- Both.
- Is God black or white?
- Both.
- God is Michael Jackson?? (?)

5665. Imagination: common sense with wings. (Kingsley Amis)

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Sunday, December 13, 2015

The Frictionary # 612

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5646. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote)

5647. Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. (Hunter S. Thompson)

5648. Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. (Jacques Maritain)

5649. Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don't. (Louis CK)

5650. You only live once...and then again! (Marcel Achard)

5651. The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. (Neil de Grasse Tyson)

5652. I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. (Dejan Stojanovic)

5653. When we yield to the fear of evil, we already feel the evil of fear. (Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais)

5654. Women send signals but men speak English. (Steve Aylett)

5655. Death is the motivation, otherwise we would take our time. (Nicolas Dupont)

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Sunday, December 06, 2015

The Frictionary # 611

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5636. The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. (Ruth Benedict)

5637. The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. (Hadia Bejar)

5638. English doesn't hesitate to borrow words from another language even if it makes it look fat. (Anu Garg)

5639. There is only one word to answer in the affirmative: Yes. All the other words were invented to say "no". (Tristan Bernard)

5640. Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. (Bertrand Russell)

5641. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. (Natalie Goldberg)

5642. A government promise is like a sexual fantasy: it's great till you try to make it real. (Stéphane Laporte)

5643. The knitting on the floor
the rocking chair still
she has departed. (Réjean Lévesque)

5644. The road to success is always under construction. (?)

5645. A great marriage is like two trees standing tall, side by side. Their branches intertwine (...), they almost become one, yet remain two. (Carl Walter)

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