Sunday, August 29, 2021

The Frictionary # 907

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8606. Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

8607. Friendship is like a dry sausage. Man made it. God would never have thought about it. (François Bizot)

8608. A couple words to live by: Don't die. (Mark Dhaniram)

8609. Paralysis is the beginning of wisdom. (Francis Picabia)

8610. With her swollen belly/ the moon rests on the sea/ throwing silver crumbs/ to the little fish. (Nina Bogatova)

8611. Not every bit of truth is fit to be told...and not easy to hear. (Réjean Lévesque)

8612. Waffle: plaid pancake. (Jim Gaffigan)

8613. Pangolin: artichoke with legs. (Boucar Diouf)

8614. Whenever you are not changing, you are choosing. Read that again. (?)

8615. Elegance ceases when it is noticed. (Jean Cocteau)

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Sunday, August 22, 2021

The Frictionary # 906

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8596. The greatest enemy of justice is privilege. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

8597. Memory...that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. (Jorge Luis Borgès)

8598. Religion: the triumph of wishful thinking over reality. (Stuart Vealey)

8599. To leave is to die a little. Be on your way, won't you? (Réjean Lévesque)

8600. Feelings are like crayons. They give you like 64 but you only end up using 3. (Nick Griffin)

8601. Love: Only sentiment deep enough that we fall into it. (Michel Lauzière)

8602, There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. (Wesley Bates)

8603. When you buy a house, you look at the beams, when you take a wife, you must look at her mother. (Chinese proverb)

8604. Squirrels - Nature's little speed bumps. (?)

8605. The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do. (Sam Donaldson)

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Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Frictionary # 905

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8586. Be the person your dog thinks you are. (J.W. Stephens)

8587. Be is the beginning of beginning. (Réjean Lévesque)

8588. There is no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. (Will Smith)

8589. The square is a triangle that's made it, or a circumference that's lost it. (Pierre Dac)

8590. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.* (Carl Sagan) * Message to Republicans.

8591. What is beautiful in a mystery is the secret it contains, not the truth it hides. (Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

8592. Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage". (Herbert Spencer)

8593. The eraser makes the pencil amnesiac. (madeleinebleue)

8594. Whatever you do always give your 100%. Unless you're donating blood. (?)

8595. Jealousy is the shadow of desire. Desire always compares and, because of comparison, there is suffering. (Shanti Dharm)

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Sunday, August 08, 2021

The Frictionary # 904

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8576. For too many people, retirement may be described as living in the past lane. (Mardy Grothe)

8577. Remember to forget. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

8578. People who live in glass houses might as well answer the door. (Morey Amsterdam)

8579. Education does not consist in cramming but in making people hungry. (Michel Tardy)

8580. Asking "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking "If there is no master, whose slave shall I be?". (Dan Barker)

8581. People who complain constantly live their misfortunes twice. (Jean Dutourd)

8582. I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him. (Henny Youngman)

8583. Children really want to help you right up until they are able to. (Pascal Audet)

8584. Stupidity is not knowing how dumb you are. (?)

8585. Courage is just fear with muscles. (Coyote Sings)

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Sunday, August 01, 2021

The Frictionary # 903

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8566. There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. (J.B.S. Haldane) 

8567. The road up and the road down is one and the same. (Heraclitus)

8568. Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. (Gandhi)

8569. The weakness of strength is in believing only in strength. (Paul Valéry)

8570. Sheherazade is the patron saint of television scriptwriters, who decide just where to put commercial breaks in a TV show. (Anu Garg)

8571. The more ignorant you are, the less you are aware of it. (Louis Pasteur)

8572. What separates humans from animals? Fences. (Jimmy Carr)

8573. Poetry, via uneven and velvety roads, leads us towards the break of day in the country of the first time. (Andrée Chedid)

8574. The worst thing about parallel parking is witnesses. (?)

8575. The present, we hope, is the past under repair. (Réjean Lévesque)

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