The Frictionary # 674

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

6266. Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire. (George W. Crane)

6267. Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep. (William Maxwell)

6268. The three great ages of humankind are, the stone Age, the bronze Age and the age of retirement. (Jean-Charles)

6269. Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink. (W.C. Fields)

6270. Solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company. (Hannah Arendt)

6271. Chance is the lay form of a miracle. (Paul Guth)

6272. Comedy is an escape, not from truth, but from despair, a narrow escape into faith. (Christopher Fry)

6273. The bed's soft creak as I roll to my side.
What sounds will your body make against mine? (Jessica Jacobs)

6274. Guns don't kill people. George R.R. Martin kills people. (?)

6275. A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.* [Tom Wolfe)
* Message to Donald Trump.

That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. Subscribe and receive this free weekly blog in your in-box. Have a great week!

The Frictionary # 673

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

6256, Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. (Arthur Helps)

6257. Maturity is a feeling that comes over you when you look back on your life and realize you were wrong on just about everything. (Jim Unger "Herman")

6258. Monopoly is a game where there is only one person having fun. (Stéphane Laporte)

6259. Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. (David Bhoder)

6260. A flower is an educated weed. (Luther Burbank)

6261. What do the men I have loved have in common? Me! (Jeanne Moreau)

6262. A latte is a mulatto beverage. (Ramon Gomez de la Serna)

6263. Once you have discovered
who you are
there's nothing left to do
but forget. (Positively Wyrde)

6264. Every fear is part hope and every hope is partly fear [quit dividing things up and taking sides]. (Tom Robbins)

6265. An octopus has 8 crotches. (Demetri Martin)

That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. Subscribe and receive this free weekly blog in your in-box. Have a great week!

The Frictionary #672

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

6246. A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race. (Barbara Christine Seifert)

6247. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business of gambling. (Ambrose Bierce)

6248. A star shines to illuminate others. Not to shine the light on itself. (Stéphane Laporte)

6249. Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. (Walter Scott)

6250. Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend thinking. (Benny Profane)

6251. Men don't always love what or who they esteem, women only esteem what or who they love. (Joseph Sanial-Dubay)

6252. There are years that ask questions and years that answer. (Zora Neale Hurston)

6253. Your faith makes you say it is so
I only know that I don't know. (Réjean Lévesque)

6254. Why do we only rest in peace? Why don't we live in peace? (?)

6255. Every nation has the government it deserves. (Joseph M. de Maistre)

That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. Subscribe and receive this free weekly blog in your in-box. Have a great week!

The Frictionary # 671

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

6236. Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

6237. As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. (Robert Quillen)

6238. Facebook was invented to allow jogging enthusiasts to brag about it. (Hugo Meunier)

6239. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks. (Ikkaku, Hosaka & Kawabata)

6240. In the mirror
is only an illusion
of separation. (Positively Wyrde)

6241. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. (Salman Rushdie)

6242. Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. (Gaston Bachelard)

6243. Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. (C.S. Lewis)

6244. People with Alzheimer's forgive easily. (Réjean Lévesque)

6245. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God. (Tom Robbins)

That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. Subscribe and receive this free weekly blog in your in-box. Have a great week!