Sunday, November 25, 2018

The Frictionary # 763

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7166. They say the world belongs to those who rise early. Not true, it belongs to those who are happy to rise. (Monica Vitti)

7167. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (Dale Carnegie)

7168. The inventor of the soda crackers has a place in hell. (Martin Henry Fischer)

7169. Have compassion for all animals including yourself. (Réjean Lévesque)

7170. A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. (Spike Milligan)

7171. Where there is no property there is no injustice. (John Locke)

7172. It is never later than midnight. (Burmese proverb)

7173. Marriage has this in common with riding a brahma bull - that its success is judged less by style than duration. (Robert Brault)

7174. God created woman, disappointed with the results, he invented Photoshop. (?)

7175. Despair and hope have one thing in common, they both are illusions. (Lu Xun)

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Sunday, November 18, 2018

The Frictionary # 762

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7156. America is a country of immigrants who seem to delight in hating new immigrants. (Trevor Noah)

7157. A man never knows how to say goodbye, a woman never knows when to say it. (Helen Rowland)

7158. Horse: the only animal in which you can hammer nails. (Jules Renard)

7159. A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake)

7160. A secret is only well kept when there is only one guardian. (Iranian proverb)

7161. To Oedipus, Saint Valentine's falls on Mother's Day. (Philippe Geluck)

7162. Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. (Robert Lynd)

7163. Never use acupuncture needles on a voodoo doll. (Réjean Lévesque)

7164. If you don't know where you're going, you can never get lost. (?)

7165. [Prophecy that came true:] Trump winning the presidency would bring a whole new meaning to the phrase "God Save America" (Chris Handley)


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Sunday, November 11, 2018

The Frictionary # 761

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7146. Who has never left his country is full of prejudice. (Carlo Goldoni)

7147. It is futile to blame our unhappiness on someone who doesn't care, so we blame it on someone who does. (Robert Brault)

7148. Reading, a good way to get richer without stealing. (Arlette Laguiller)

7149. People ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi. (Emo Philips)

7150. England is a cup of tea
France, a wheel of ripened brie
Greece, a short, squat olive tree
America is a gun. (Liam Stack)

7151. Christianism has done a lot for love by making it a sin. (Anatole France)

7152. Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. (Benjamin Franklin)

7153. The past, the future, those two halves of life, one says never and the other says always. (Alphonse de Lamartine)

7154. To a cannibal, a pregnant woman is a bit like a Kinder Surprise. (?)

7155. Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. (Martin Henry Fischer)

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Sunday, November 04, 2018

The Frictionary # 760

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7136. Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. (Clint Murchison)

7137. The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. (Paul Valéry)

7138. Worry is fear in disguise. (Positively Wyrde)

7139. The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. (Diane Ravitch)

7140. Political maxim: it is less dangerous to make four dissatisfied than one satisfied and three jealous. (Gilbert Cesbron)

7141. God made man, but he used a monkey to do it. (Devo)

7142. If life gives you demons, make demonade. (?)

7143. Little things affect little minds. (Benjamin Disraeli)

7144. If you want to be happier, lower your expectations. (?)

7145. Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. (Mason Cooley)

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