Sunday, March 26, 2017

The Frictionary # 678

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6306. Happiness is fear-based. (Richard Lewis)

6307. I think the God of Snow is bipolar. (Wendy Liebman)

6308. Waiting is time taking a nap. (madeleinebleue)

6309. Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. (John Wannamaker)

6310. I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. (Mark Twain)

6311. Social networks are like renovations, you know when it starts, but you never know when it will end. (Hugo Léger)

6312. Darkness stretches
on both sides of night.
More time to dream
about tomorrows that sing off-key. (Réjean Lévesque)

6313. I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. (Edward Albee)

6314. Doing nothing gets pretty tiresome because you can't stop and rest. (?)

6315. You can't hold a gun and a protest sign at the same time. (Georges Wolinski)

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Sunday, March 19, 2017

The Frictionary # 677

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6296. The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually, you run out of always. (Robert Brault)

6297. The right wine
ignores
the shape of the glass. (Positively Wyrde)

6298. The promise of the caterpillar does not bind the butterfly. (André Gide)

6299. I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. (Robert Bierstedt)

6300. Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In the part of the American brain lately vacated by God. (Erica Jong)

6301. According to a survey, 90% of people do not believe in surveys anymore. (Stéphane Laporte)

6302. There are no original ideas. There are only original people. (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)

6303. I miss my folks...I'm really a bad shot. (Réjean Lévesque)

6304. Every time history repeats itself the price goes up. (?)

6305. We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. (Ivan Illich)

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Sunday, March 12, 2017

The Frictionary # 676

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6286. Men make counterfeit money; in many cases, money makes counterfeit men. (Sydney J. Harris)

6287. Character is what you are in the dark. (Dwight L. Moody)

6288. The truth is that there is an incredible amount of drops that do not make the cup runneth over. (Romain Gary)

6289. I am a human being made of 31.5 trillion cells. There are 0.1 trillion stars in the Milky Way & 3 trillion trees on earth. I am a universe. (Shanti Dharm)

6290. The Chinese alphabet has more than 3,000 characters. 6 more than Game of Thrones. (Brian Kiley)

6291. It's called faith because it's not knowledge. (Christopher Hitchens)

6292. Man takes longer to find emoji than it would have taken him to find words that convey what he wanted. (Kumail Nanjiani)

6293. The stuff of heroes is a pack of lies. (Jacques Prévert)

6294. Everybody has the right to a second chance. Except for the hairstylist. (?)

6295. A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde)

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Sunday, March 05, 2017

The Frictionary # 675

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6276. A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. (H.L. Mencken)

6277. A little solitude
Good for the soul;
Too much,
A large dark hole. (Mardy Grothe)

6278. To love is to live the indissoluble alliance between terror and the miracle. (Pascal Bruckner)

6279. They say that time is money, but money doesn't matter as long as you have the time. (Nazim Yaya)

6280. Individuality is freedom lived. (John Dos Passos)

6281. It's not that people use only 10% of their brains. It's that only 10% of people use their brains. (SciencePorn)

6282. With children, it's not the making but the after-sales service that is the problem. (Anne Roumanoff)

6283. Truth hurts - not the searching after, the running from. (John Eyberg)

6284. "Go to bed, you'll feel better in the morning" is the human version of "Did you turn it off and turn it back on again?" (?)

6285. So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible. (Mildred D. Taylor)

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