Sunday, February 28, 2016

The Frictionary # 623

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5756. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future. (Elie Wiesel)

5757. As long as you can still be disappointed, you are still young. (Sarah Churchill)

5758. Resignation is to courage what iron is to steel. (François Gaston duc de Lévis)

5759. Friends wave red flags when you have a bad idea. Real friends pick up a camera. (Donna McCoy)

5760. Guns don't kill people; automatic weapons do. (Kaamran Hafeez)

5761. Life is a four-letter word. (Lenny Bruce)

5762. We used to be called citizens. Now we're called taxpayers. (Toni Morrison)

5763. Past: time that has had its day. (Michel Lauzière)

5764. Never do for a child what he can do for himself. (Rudolf Dreikurs)

5765. Nothing succeeds like failure. (Rebecca West)

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Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Frictionary #622

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5746. We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

5747. Urgency is a product of pessimism. (George Murray)

5748. The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. (André Maurois)

5749. God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. (Martin H. Fischer)

5750. Leading horses to water is management. Making them drink is leadership. (Rick Rauch)

5751. Ambition is the wealth of the poor. (Marcel Pagnol)

5752. The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter, he's just got to know. (Will Rogers)

5753. Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? (Stanislaw J. Lec)

5754. If you've never eaten while crying you don't know what life tastes like. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

5755. When you wish upon a star, it takes trillions of years for the wish to get there, and by that stage you're dead. (Neil De Grasse Tyson)

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Sunday, February 14, 2016

The Frictionary # 621

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5736. There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

5737. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. (Julius Gordon)

5738. Chance, the tool that the lazy dream of. (Madeleine Ferron)

5739. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. (Pablo Picasso)

5740. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. (Li Bai)

5741. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. (E.B. White)

5742. Obama became the first Nobel Prize recipient to BOMB another Nobel Prize recipient. (Lee Camp)

5743. We must learn to forget. If not, existence becomes impossible. (Alice Parizeau)

5744. If you do not ask, the answer will always be NO. (?)

5745. -What should I get for a man who already has everything?
          - Insurance. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

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Sunday, February 07, 2016

The Frictionary # 620

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5726. He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. (Lao Tze)

5727. The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. (Max Lerner)

5728. Appearances are meaningless; it is at the bottom of the heart that the wound resides. (Euripides)

5729. You know there's been a deterioration in manners when the only people to call you "Sir" or "Ma'am" are giving you a traffic ticket. (Robert Brault)

5730. Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous. (Bill Watterson)

5731. Jell-O: edible breast implant. (Billy Tellier)

5732. A stone may be inanimate
but it understands gravity. (Positively Wyrde)

5733. When you are threatened, adrenalin production elicits the flee or fight response or sometimes, the fold and pee reaction. (Réjean Lévesque)

5734. Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. (Dorothy Sarnoff)

5735. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. (John Ruskin)

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