Sunday, September 24, 2017

The Frictionary # 703

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6556. Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. (George Jean Nathan)

6557. If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. (John Maxwell)

6558. A child prodigy is a child whose parents have a lot of imagination. (Jean Cocteau)

6559. Balloons aren't so fun when you think of them as bad breath storage units. (Julius Sharpe)

6560. Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade? (Benjamin Franklin)

6561. The problem with love is that it is a crime where you cannot do without an accomplice. (Charles Baudelaire)

6562. For women, the best aphrodisiac are words. The G-spot is in the ears. (Isabel Allende)

6563. My poem is an albatross
Soaring, gliding,
Lonely (Réjean Lévesque)

6564. Modesty: the art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. (?)

6565. It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. (Dolly Parton)

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Sunday, September 17, 2017

The Frictionary # 702

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6546. We think in generalities, but we live in details. (Alfred North Whitehead)

6547. Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. (Evan Esar)

6548. Science is for those who learn; poetry is for those who know. (Joseph Joubert)

6549. You move in me like the tongue in a mouth
like wind the leaves of summer trees. (Monica Ferrell)

6550. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. (Lewis B. Smedes)

6551. "FIRE AT WILL!" - Why does everybody want to shoot Will? (Réjean Lévesque)

6552. Game requests on Facebook are the online version of Jehovah Witnesses. (Michael Linhart)

6553. Only one is a wanderer, two together are always going somewhere. (Alfred Hitchcock)

6554. Fur is a skin that has changed beasts. (Aurélien Scholl)

6555. Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. (Colley Cibber)

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Sunday, September 03, 2017

The Frictionary # 701

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6536. An apology is a good way to have the last word. (?)

6537. The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. (Stephen King)

6538. Thirty: that weird age where you're too old to be young, and too young to be old. (Frédéric Beigbeder)

6539. There are Seven Deadly Sins, of which, so far, only Envy and Greed have organized politically. (Robert Brault)

6540. Hell, it's where there is no why. (Primo Levi)

6541. Exaggeration, n. A lie masquerading as the truth. (Mardy Grothe)

6542. Clocks and watches have been invented to slow down time. (Réjean Lévesque)

6543. I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their(sic) hands. (Demetri Martin)

6544. It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. (James Michener)

6545. The dream is a tunnel that passes under reality. It is a sewer with clear water, but still a sewer. (Pierre Reverdy)

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