Sunday, March 31, 2019

The Frictionary # 781

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7346. The last Christian died on the cross. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

7347. To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. (Quentin Crisp)

7348. Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. (Milan Kundera)

7349. Life is a cherry. 
Death is a pit. 
Love is a cherry tree. (Jacques Prévert)

7350. Happiness is a form of courage. (Holbrook Jackson)

7351. Tomorrow is the womb of today. Take care of today and you have taken care of tomorrow. If you become too worried about tomorrow, you have missed today. (Osho)

7352, Freedom is a misnomer; freedom is never free. (Réjean Lévesque)

7353. I thought I knew a lot about circles but then I did a complete 370. (Jim Gaffigan)

7354. The following sentence is true. The preceding sentence is false. (?) 

7355. Education: a method by which one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. (L.J. Peter)

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Sunday, March 24, 2019

The Frictionary # 780

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7336. There is a morning inside you waiting to burst into life. (Rumi)

7337. I believe happiness exists. The proof is that, all of a sudden, it doesn't exist anymore. (Françoise Giroud)

7338. A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake. (Zig Ziglar)

7339. How it would seem weird
inconsistent and disturbing
to see a living head
without a skull within. (Jacques Prévert)

7340. The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. (Fran Lebowitz)

7341. In the twenty-first century celebrity has become the simulacrum of success and visibility the simulacrum of genius. (Maria Popova)

7342. If you can't forgive, you can't forget. (Réjean Lévesque)

7343. When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say. (Henny Youngman)

7344. Fear is a scream, terror is a whisper. (?) 

7345. When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. (Lily Tomlin)

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Sunday, March 17, 2019

The Frictionary # 779

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7326. I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. (Alice Lee Longworth)

7327. There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. (Stephen Colbert)

7328. Never be among those who hate. Try to be among those who are hated. You'll be in better company. (Sacha Guitry)

7329. They say over time we turn into our parents. So yeah, I don't want kids either. (Alex Avery)

7330. Indifference: Weapon of passive destruction. (Michel Lauzière)

7331. I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. (John Waters)

7332. Cancer: archianarchy. (Réjean Lévesque)

7333. When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable always belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it. (Wislawa Szymborska)

7334. You're old when you hear your favorite song on the elevator. (?)

7335. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. (Max Planck*)
* Also attributed to Wayne Dyer.

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Sunday, March 10, 2019

The Frictionary # 778

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7316. Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. (Erich Fromm)

7317. I remember before Instagram when you had to guess who was insane. (Julius Sharpe)

7318. Shutting up is the same in all languages. (Philippe Geluck)

7319. -According to you, what is your greatest qua...
- PATIENCE! (Laetitia Castwa)

7320. Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. (Arnold H. Glasow)

7321. Rhinos rock: they're unicorns, armored division. (Dean Gloster)

7322. When we lose a loved one, we can notice that our heart becomes the locus of our memory. (Bernard Pivot)

7323. What's the use of dying with dignity if you have to live in indignity. (Réjean Lévesque)

7324. 90% of being married is just shouting "what" from other rooms. (?)

7325. There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. (Gandhi)

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Sunday, March 03, 2019

The Frictionary # 777

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7306. The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. (Stanley Milgram)

7307. The universe may be as great as they say
but it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist. (Piet Hein)

7308. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. (Andre Dubus III)

7309. The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile. (Sacha Guitry)

7310. I gave you the key to my heart
and you broke it
in the lock. (Réjean Lévesque)

7311. A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside us. (Franz Kafka)

7312. If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. (Coleman Hawkins)

7313. Is there another word for synonym? (George Carlin)

7314. Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. (Simone Weil)

7315. The present is the only thing that has no end. (Erwin Schrödinger)


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