Sunday, September 26, 2021

The Frictionary # 911

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8646. Worrying means you suffer twice. (Newt Scamander)

8647. To love is to lose control. (Paulo Coelho)

8648. If you leave a bottle of Ritalin inside a Ford Fiesta it will become a Ford Focus. (TheCatWhisperer)

8649. Any piece of knowledge is an answer to a question. (Gaston Bachelard)

8650. Living in the past was just another way of dying in the present. (Peter Watts)

8651. If it is true that, in the 21st century, social media is the new public square, email boxes are its sewers. (François Cardinal)

8652. I know I've lost touch with reality, but in my defense, reality started it. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

8653. See the pregnant moon/ impaled by a black branch/ is it lunacide? (Réjean Lévesque)

8654. It's easy to look smart your entire life, right up until the moment you have to install a baby seat in your car. (Julius Sharpe)

8655. A nation is free only when its cartoonists are free. (Daryl Cagle)

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Sunday, September 19, 2021

The Frictionary # 910

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8636. Genius is gold in the mine. Talent is the miner who works and brings it out. (Marguerite Gardiner)

8637. If you want to know the essence of a civilization or era, see how they assassinate people. (Jean-Marie Poupart)

8638. I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man. (Jay-Z)

8639. Dog vs Cat - Have you ever heard , "You son of a cat!". (Réjean Lévesque)

8640. Old age is (...) a lot of crossed-off names in an address book. (Ronald Blythe)

8641. Men age poorly when they stay young. (Romain Gary)

8642. Moses: God's stenographer. (David Steinberg)

8643. A haiku is an imaginative lotus pond with the real frog in it. (Chen-ou Liu)

8644. No amount of belief makes something a fact. (?)

8645. A hopeful dream is like fine glass - easily shattered, hard to dispose of. (Robert Brault)

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

The Frictionary # 909

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8626. Advertising is legalized lying. (H.G. Wells)
8627. Convictions are jails. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
8628. Sea of regrets
 and me
 full sail. (Coyote Sings)
8629. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another. (Buddha)
8630. Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. (Jerry Seinfeld)
8631. Hunting is not a sport; your adversary doesn't know it's playing. (Matthieu Cyr)
8632. Eating cheese with the refrigerator door open so it counts as a light snack. (Susanna Wolff)
8633. It's much easier to get rid of a friend than a flaw. (Jean-Michel Anctil)
8634. Prison walls are never built to scale. (?)
8635. Solitude: a good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. (Josh Billings)

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Sunday, September 05, 2021

The Frictionary # 908

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8616. Pity, the small change of love. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

8617. Any form of censorship hides a weakness. (Réjean Lévesque)

8618. The naked truth is the pornography of discourse. (Michael F. Flynn)

8619. Guy: "What's your sign?" - Girl: "Stop." (paraphrasing Daniel Tirado)

8620. The news today is a reality show where you're part of the cast, America vs America, on every channel. (Erich Vieth)

8621. Religion is the shameful disease of humankind. Politics is its cancer. (Henry de Montherlant)

8622. As the afternoon progresses, our shadows grow longer. At night, in the dark, we become our shadows. (Tom Robbins)

8623. Some part of a mistake is always correct. (Savielly Tartakower)

8624. Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave early on Friday. (?)

8625. The death of God left the angels in a strange position. (Donald Barthelme)

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