Sunday, October 28, 2018

The Frictionary #759

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

7126. Take away esteem, and love is no more. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

7127. God: the most popular scapegoat for our sins. (Mark Twain)

7128. In the wilderness of solitude
As I see it blooming
A flowering oasis of you
And beneath the sand the dust of longing. (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

7129. My man wants us to hold hands on the street, I think he watches too much figure skating. (Laetitia Castwa)

7130. The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Clarence S. Darrow)

7131. It is bad luck to be superstitious. (Andrew W. Mathis)

7132. They say prostitutes sell their bodies when in fact, they're only renting them - just like regular employees. (Réjean Lévesque)

7133. Most horses have mullets. (Demetri Martin)

7134. Ghosts do not haunt many gyms; they enroll but end up not going. (?)

7135. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell)

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Sunday, October 21, 2018

The Frictionary # 758

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7116. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Brault)*
*Also attributed to Antonio Smith.

7117. Being insensitive and insecure means never having to say you're sorry.  (Mardy Grothe)

7118. I'm not a racist, but you have to see things as they are: children are not people like us. (Pierre Desproges)

7119. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. (Yasunari Kawabata)

7120. There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. (Richard Feynman)

7121. What's the difference between honor and pride? (Réjean Lévesque)

7122. Sous-vide method: "You don't cook, you warm food in a condom." (Bradley Cooper)

7123. You can't see your reflection in boiling water. Truth can't be seen in a state of anger. (Zen proverb)

7124. The richer you get, the more expensive happiness becomes. (?)

7125. Reading tells us that solitude is a treasure. (Sylvain Tesson)

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Sunday, October 14, 2018

The Frictionary # 757

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7106. Fashion is inhabited art. (Paul Berger-Gross)

7107. Woman always wants to change man. Man always wants to change women. (Anne Roumanoff)

7108. Now is blessed. The rest Remembered. (Jim Morrison)

7109. The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. (Flip Wilson)

7110. I have but one word, but I have a poor memory. (Marcel Achard)

7111. Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. (Terry Pratchett)

7112. Life's not a paragraph
And death I think is no parenthesis. (E.E. Cummings)

7113. The American population can be broken up into 3 main categories: Wonderful people - Haters - Florida. (Negin Farsad)

7114. You don't need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you COMPLETELY. (?)

7115. Those who deny freedom are bound to watch over the cages they build. They are therefore also prisoners. (Réjean Lévesque)

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Sunday, October 07, 2018

The frictionary # 756

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7096. Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. (Anthony Powell)

7097. Childhood is a promise that is never kept. (Ken Hill)

7098. To love is to not compare anymore. (Bernard Grasset)

7099. Mercy isn't earned. It's given. (A. Lee Martinez)

7100. The axe forgets. The tree remembers. (Zen proverb)

7101. All I ask if we arm the teachers, the librarians get silencers. (Dennis Rooney)

7102. You can have the last word with a woman, if it is yes. (Alfred de Musset)

7103. Is it the tree
or the leaf
that lets go. (Coyote Sings)

7104. Evian is naïve spelled backwards. (Jim Gaffigan)

7105. Some people think that the trademark for the Big Bang is owned by God. (Réjean Lévesque)

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