Sunday, October 27, 2019

The Frictionary # 811

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

7646. "My country, right or wrong..." is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." (G.K. Chesterton)

7647. There is nothing new in art except talent. (Anton Chekhov)

7648. Never make fun of people who mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. (Morgan Housel)

7649. Being different is neither a good nor a bad thing. It simply means that you are courageous enough to be yourself. (Albert Camus)

7650. Wouldn't it be great if voting for someone didn't have to be an act of forgiveness? (Robert Brault) 

7651. It's a good thing that not everyone has a smartphone. Someone has to honk when the light turns green. (Michael Linhart)

7652. An old barn
held together
by beams of light. (Coyote Sings)

7653. I got a garage door opener. Now, I need a garage door. (Réjean Lévesque)

7654. Nobody is perfect. I am nobody. Thus... (?)

7655. Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude. (Viktor Frankl)

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Sunday, October 20, 2019

The Frictionary # 810

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7636. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and ends up losing respect for himself and for others.* (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
* Message to Trump.

7637. We must laugh at everything. (...) It is the only human way of brushing against lucidity without falling into it. (Pierre Desproges)

7638. Even the one-eyed man winks to women. (Arab proverb)

7639. Leadership cannot really be taught, it can only be learned. (Harold S. Green)

7640. An airplane is a prison with wings. (Stéphane Laporte)

7641. A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. (China Miéville)

7642. You, Holy Sun.
Burning hiker on the path of stars between the blind and glittering animals,
good-natured champion who lashes out at giants far away and having fun. (Tomas Lieske)

7643. Freedom (n.): to ask nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing. (Ayn Rand)

7644. Pop-Tarts: breakfast raviolis. (?)

7645. If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. (Mercedes Lackey)

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Sunday, October 13, 2019

The Frictionary # 809

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7626. When you are smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

7627. Spiteful: One who forgot how to forget. (Michel Lauzière)

7628. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts, wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin H. Fischer)

7629. I seek you beyond the wait
Beyond myself
And I don't know because I love you so much
Which one of us is absent. (Paul Éluard)

7630. Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. (Stephen Hawking)

7631. Facts are many, but the truth is one. (Rabindranath Tagore)

7632. I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all the women's magazines. (Gerhard Kocher)

7633. I expected nothing from her... I was gratified. (Yvan Audouard)

7634. Love and stoplights can be cruel. (Sesame Street)

7635. Development is used to fill stores, not to fill needs. (Pierre Foglia)

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Sunday, October 06, 2019

The Frictionary # 808

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7616. What is forgiven is usually well remembered. (Louis Dudek)

7617. Man is born toothless, hairless, and without illusions, and he dies, also toothless, hairless, and without illusions. (Alexandre Dumas)

7618. You can devise a one-word argument to defeat the Bible: Dinosaurs. (Bill Hicks)

7619. There's a reason dogs are man's best friend. They're the ones that leave the seat up. (Glen & Gary McCoy "The Duplex")

7620. One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

7621. Man has to do, woman simply needs to be. (Victor Hugo)

7622. Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. (Robert K. Mueller)

7623. At high tide, the fish eat ants; at low tide, the ants eat fish. (Thai proverb)

7624. Ever wonder why there is a stairway to heaven and a highway to hell? There's apparently more traffic going to hell. (?)

7625. Posed between seasons
she colors her new gray hair
in shades of autumn. (lifethroughblueeyes)

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