Sunday, September 25, 2016

The Frictionary # 653

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6056. Cancer is a demonic pregnancy. (Susan Sontag)

6057. Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off the light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on."(Erma Bombeck)

6058. The fatalist is one to wash his soul in his own urine. (Achille Chavée)

6059. If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. (Carl Sagan)

6060. God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. (Jean Paul Richter)

6061. Love and pain
inseparable twins from birth
one gives meaning
the other gives worth. (wordturner)

6062. I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. (Henny Youngman)

6063. The end of the world is individual. It is when you die. (Réjean Lévesque)

6064. I nevre make the same mistake twice. Nevre! (?)

6065. Nobody is young after forty-five, but you can be irresistible at any age. (Coco Chanel)

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

The Frictionary # 652

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6046. Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. (Alvin Toffler)

6047. Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples. (François de La Rochefoucaud)

6048. People are confused about forgiveness: it is not about excusing someone's actions - it's about not allowing their actions to hurt you anymore. (Sue Fitzmaurice)

6049. Money is like breasts, the older you get, the more you have on the side. (Julien Tremblay)

6050. It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked. (Jill Peterson)

6051. The invisible has popular cachet,
being as it is among us
in the interstices of the known. (Jim Culleny)

6052. When you think about it, consistency equals stagnation. (Réjean Lévesque)

6053. Biography lends to death a new terror. (Oscar Wilde)

6054. Fashion's Law: if it fits, it's the pits. (?)

6055. Your significance is not in your similarity to others, it is in your differences. (Mike Murdoch)

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Sunday, September 11, 2016

The Frictionary # 651

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6036. A ripe old age is the period that comes before the rotten old age. (Pierre Desproges)

6037. Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. (Rita Coolidge)

6038. Writing under
a pen name
Bic. (Slym Being)

6039. It is not evil but the good that creates guilt. (Jacques Lacan)

6040. Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. (Ashley Montagu)

6041. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. (Oscar Wilde)

6042. Religion: "holy" superstition. (Réjean Lévesque)

6043. Facts, n. That which is denied when it conflicts with doctrine and dogma. (Mardy Grothe)

6044. Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, you're drunk. (?)

6045. Only silence perfects silence. (A.R. Ammons)

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Sunday, September 04, 2016

The Frictionary # 650

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6026. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. (Robert H. Schuller)

6027. Common sense is a lot like deodorant. The people who need it most, never use it. (Bill Murray)

6028. She was lying in bed
I noticed her panties
on fire. (Réjean Lévesque)

6029. Everybody is against Trump and all the others vote for him. (Stéphane Laporte)

6030. It is part of human nature to hate those whom you have injured. (Tacitus)

6031. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. (Paul Theroux)

6032. God, n. History's most popular hypothesis, treated as a fact by those who don't know what "hypothesis" means. (Mardy Grothe)

6033. What is beautiful in a mystery is the secret it contains, not the truth it is hiding. (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

6034. The color of a chameleon can only be the one it has when on another chameleon. (François Cavanna)

6035. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. (Frank Herbert)

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