Sunday, October 25, 2020

The Frictionary # 863

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8166. Live every day as if it was your last and someday you'll be right. (H.H. "Breaker" Morant)

8167. Men only get what they deserve. The others are single. (Sacha Guitry)

8168. We are a free country. Free to be as ignorant as we want to be. (Coyote Sings)

8169. These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. (Rumi)

8170. Remember that worry isn't a window into the future. (David Cain)

8171. Never will the twilights vanquish the dawns. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

8172. It isn't that evil wins - it never will - but that it doesn't die. (John Steinbeck)

8173. GPS: Device that tells you precisely the place where you got lost. (Michel Lauzière)

8174. Know your worth then add tax. (?)

8175. When expressing opinions, people make two major blunders: never stopping to think and never thinking to stop. (Mardy Grothe)

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Sunday, October 18, 2020

The Frictionary # 862

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8156. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and ...it is not possible to find it elsewhere. (Agnes Repplier)

8157. Time, by its flow, wears and destroys what is temporal. That is why there is more eternity in the past than in the present. (Simone Weil)

8158. "We're all in the same boat". Unfortunately, it's a cruise ship. (Julius Sharpe)

8159. Being alone is the absence of the other. Solitude is the presence of the self. (Osho)

8160. Sometimes as an antidote/ to fear of death,/ I eat the stars. (Rebecca Elson)

8161. The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won't hurt. (Gerhard Kocher)

8162. Genius is having talent all the time; talent is having genius from time to time; intelligence is knowing you have no talent or genius. (Philippe Bouvard)

8163. Bad is never good until worse happens. (Danish proverb)

8164. You can divide people into two distinct parts. But they suffer a lot. (?)

8165. It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts. (Ella Fitzgerald)

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Sunday, October 11, 2020

The Frictionary 861

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8146. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. (Bertrand Russell)

8147. The most beautiful memory seems to me like flotsam left by happiness. (André Gide)

8148. The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. (Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart)

8149. We only grant a soul to those people who don't have their bodies anymore. (Malcolm de Chazal)

8150. Now evidence indicates intelligence is not contagious. (Andy Borowitz)

8151. Every ten seconds/ I'm taking it/ one day at a time. (Coyote Sings)

8152. Stupidity is without anxiety. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

8153. Sometimes, you have to survive to live. (Jean-Pierre Drouin)

8154. Strange that creationists insist everything must have a designer, but then grant immunity from this principle to their god. (?)

8155. Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. (Han Suyin)

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Sunday, October 04, 2020

The Frictionary # 860

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8136. You say it best when you say nothing at all. (Allison Krauss)

8137. Biology is the only science where multiplying requires division. (Weird Science)

8138. The shortest route from one point to another is exactly the same in reverse. (Pierre Dac)

8139. birth moves on to what comes next/ years tick off from more to less/ what follows then we have to guess. (Jim Culleny)

8140. Suicide, in fact, is self-defense because we kill our own assassin. (Gustave Parking)

8141. As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Josh Billings)

8142. To make a memory out of your dream, that's what it is to live. (Sylvain Tesson)

8143. Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. (H. Mumford Jones)

8144. Most people wish to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity. (?)

8145. To govern is to choose (,,,) but, first, you have to be elected, and getting elected is the opposite of choosing, it's to be chosen. (Pierre Foglia)

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