Sunday, March 28, 2021

The Frictionary # 885

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8386. Everything comes too late for those who only wait. (Elbert Hubbard)

8387. I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

8388. How can you make 2+2=5? Say it's your religious belief, it worked for other things. (Michael Gendin)

8389. Truth is never amusing, if so, everybody would tell it. (Michel Audiard)

8390. I had amnesia once or twice. (Steven Wright)

8391. Freedom consists of doing all that the length of the chain allows. (François Cavanna)

8392. History is women following behind with the bucket. (Alan Bennet)

8393. What's the difference between a woman and a dishwasher? That's exactly what the problem is! (Katherine Levac)

8394. We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don't believe in miracles? (?)

8395. Morality is the tendency to throw out the bath along with the baby. (Karl Kraus)

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Sunday, March 21, 2021

The Frictionary # 884

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8376. It is not us who say the words, it is them who speak to us. (Witold Gombrowicz)

8377. When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address. (Jeffrey R. Holland)

8378. Language is legislation, speech is its code. (Roland Barthes)

8379. The whole reason we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system. (Dave Barry)

8380. Ignorance is the mother of traditions. (Charles de Montesquieu)

8381. Happiness must be consumed when it's fresh. you can't store it until later. (Mardy Grothe)

8382. Patriotism is loving our country. Nationalism is hating other people's country. (Charles De Gaulle)

8383. In a web/ under variable moonlight/ a firefly's SOS. (Tzod Earf)

8384. Life is like photography, you need the negatives to develop. (?)

8385. Genius is misunderstood, but so is irony. (Réjean Lévesque)

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Sunday, March 14, 2021

The Frictionary # 883

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8366. The best time to make friends is before you need them. (Ethel Barrymore)

8367. Doubt is homage rendered to hope. (Lautréamont -aka Isidore Lucien Ducasse)

8368. Monkey, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. (Ambrose Bierce)

8369. We measure monuments by their shadow, books by their critics, men by their enemies. (Edmond & Jules de Goncourt)

8370. There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. (Maya Angelou)

8371. I am tired of museums, cemeteries of the arts. (Alphonse de Lamartine)

8372. What's the use of having more than one string to your bow when you have only one arrow. (Réjean Lévesque)

8373. In fiction, the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

8374. On average, a human being spends approximately two years of his life using the toilet. Multiply that number by 3.7 if he owns a smartphone. (?)

8375. A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims...but accomplices. (George Orwell)

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Sunday, March 07, 2021

The Frictionary # 882

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8356. It isn't true that you only live once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how. (Bobby Darin)

8357. Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. (Colette)

8358. Another night, another "why?"/ I shout into the starlit sky to echo as a fading cry/ Across the reach of no reply. (Robert Brault)

8359. What makes equality difficult is that we only want it with those superior to us. (Henry Becque)

8360. It is 9:58 and it is now. Tomorrow at 3:00 it will be now. (Hugh Prather)

8361. Karaoke: Place where Queen songs go to die. (Philippe-Audrey Larue-Saint-Jacques)

8362. I think they're called cell phones because we're pretty much imprisoned by them now. (Kent Graham)

8363. The French love revolutions but abhor change. (Anatole de Monzie)

8364. So far you've survived 100% of your worst days - You're doing great. (?)

8365. A married philosopher is necessarily comic. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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