Sunday, November 27, 2022

The Frictionary # 972

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9256. Success is the ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets. (Ugandan proverb)

9257. Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. (Freeman Dyson)

9258. All religions go against the principle that all men are equal because they believe they are the best religion. (Réjean Lévesque)

9259. The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again. (George Miller)

9260. There is one thing sadder than losing your life, it is losing the reason to live. (Paul Claudel)

9261. The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose. (Ernie Banks)

9262. The fate of mountains must be terrible. They have to always contemplate the same scenery. (Paulo Coelho)

9263. If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't try so hard to take it from you. (Samuel L. Jackson)

9264. When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic. (?)

9265. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. (Tom Robbins)

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Sunday, November 20, 2022

The Frictionary # 971

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9246. Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. (Angela Carter)

9247. Love does not want duration, it wants the instant and eternity. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

9248. Hearts carried around/ like lockets;/ some full of love/ others empty. (oaklungs)

9249. Fanatic: a walking exclamation mark. (Amos Oz)

9250. The biggest liar in the world is "they say" *. (Douglas Malloch) *Some would say Trump is the biggest liar.

9251. Eternity is not a knell ringing forever, eternity is the present eternal. (Jacques de Bourbon-Busset)

9252. I'm looking for the fountain of youth, there's a lot of change at the bottom. (Wendy Liebman)

9253. If a beard means wisdom, even a goat can pass for Plato. (Lucian of Samosata)

9254. I'm a quasi-vegetarian. I only eat animals that are vegetarians. (Réjean Lévesque)

8255. Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. (Judith Martin)

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Sunday, November 13, 2022

The Frictionary # 970

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9236. Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. (Channing Pollock)

9237. The promises of politicians bind only those who receive them. (Charles Pasqua)

9238. The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. (Jim Hightower)

9239. Ostrich: the only animal officially endowed with political sense. (Pierre Daninos)

9240. What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. (Edward Langley)

9241. What the people want to hear is people who listen to them. (François Avard & Daniel Gagnon)

9242. World's Shortest Pessimistic Poem: Hope?/ Nope. (Robert Zend)

9243. Yielding to your internal rage is the opposite of being free. (Marie Laberge)

9244. No one makes a bigger deal about driving to work than fire trucks. (funnyoneliners)

9245. The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. (B.B. King)

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Sunday, November 06, 2022

The Frictionary # 969

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9226. Ignoring violence can lead to submitting to it. (Pierre Foglia)

9227. What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. (Logan Pearsall Smith)

9228. A personal diary is a book with a lock that you hide under your bed. When you post something on Facebook, there are two billion people under your bed. (Stéphane Laporte)

9229. Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. (Brendan Behan)

9230. What is love? It is, first of all, not to ask that question. (Louis Gauthier)

9231. Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. (Arthur Koestler)

9232. Learn everything about one thing, and something about everything. (Paramahansa Yogananda)

9233. Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love. (Antiphanes)

9234. I never finish anyt.... (?)

9235. Shortest Essay on Human Dignity: Nobody is Nobody. (Robert Zend)

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