Sunday, April 24, 2022

The Frictionary # 941

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8946. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard)

8947. Personality is the ego's closet. (Louis Scutenaire)

8948. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast forward the parade. (Mitch Hedberg)

8949. The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. (Isaac Disraeli)

8950. Our days are numbered: by statisticians. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

8951. A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knowness. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

8952. If abortion is murder, what is masturbation? A genocide? (Jean-Marie Bigard)

8953. Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it. (Marcelene Cox)

8954. I think I figured out Victoria's Secret. She's hungry. (Funnyoneliners)

8955. Every law is an infraction of liberty. (Jeremy Bentham)

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Sunday, April 17, 2022

The Frictionary # 940

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8936. Rights without duties is anarchy. (Lessia Oukaïnka)

8937. A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the one you first thought of. (Burt Bacharach)

8938. Rumor: Noise that runs faster when the weight of the truth is removed from it. (Michel Lauzière)

8939. A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. (Brander Matthews)

8940. In the manger of the capitalist god, the virgin of marketing gets ready to give birth to half of its yearly revenue. (Marcel Perron)

8941. Sometimes, tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. (Wan Joran)

8942. The triumph of predictions is always 'a posteriori'. (Jean Barbeau)

8943. Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste. (Sue Grafton)

8944. A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what 'pseudo' means. (?)

8945. The future only exists in the present. (Louis Scutenaire)

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

The Frictionary # 939

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8926. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. (Bertrand Russell)

8927. Nothing brings out jealousy like laughter. (Françoise Sagan)

8928. Gotta buy a new printer for my cartridge. (Alex Baze)

8929. My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first. (Wislawa Szymborska)

8930. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be. (Joan Didion)

8931. You are never offended by lies. Truth is the greatest offender. (Osho)

8932. When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle. (Millicent Fenwick)

8933. When God is silent, you can make him say what you want. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

8934. Zero is the only number that allows you to count to one. (?)

8935. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. (Robert A. Humphrey)

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Sunday, April 03, 2022

The Frictionary # 938

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8916. To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. (Tom Robbins)

8917. Politics is the art of the equilibrium and the scheming to satisfy the greatest number possible. (Georgy Frangulyan)

8918. And God said 'let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. (Spike Milligan)

8919. Trump is an iconoclast of the right, a combed anarchist, a confused and mad conservative. (Yves Boisvert)

8920. It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person. (Bill Murray)

8921. Life is written with a lead pencil. Death uses the eraser. (Christian Bobin)

8922. Youth is a time of rapid change. Between the ages of 12 and 17, a parent can age 30 years. (Sam Levenson)

8923. Scientists say my brain and heart/ are 73 percent water -/ they underestimate me. (Kimberley Blaeser)

8924. A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted. (?)

8925. Tomorrow's truth feeds on yesterday's mistake. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

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