Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Frictionary # 976

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9296. Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. (Leo Rosten)

9297. The night caresses/ under the moon's cold eye/ the bruises on my soul. (Joëlle Girard)

9298. Alpo is 99 cents a can; that's over SEVEN dog dollars! (Jim Kimble)

9299. Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the very crazy daughter of a very wise mother. (Voltaire)

9300. Change is the end result of all true learning. (Leo Buscaglia)

9301. Stubbornness is the poor cousin of the will. (Malcolm de Chazal)

9302. - What is your motto? - "What" is my motto. (David Bowie)

9303. The sad have two reasons to be sad: they ignore or they hope. (Albert Camus)

9304. Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick-skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. (David Mellor)

9305. Money won't make you happy...but everybody wants to find out for themselves. (Zig Ziglar)

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Sunday, December 18, 2022

The Frictionary # 975

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9286. There is no love without justice. They are identical. (Gerald Stern)

9287. One more proof of the absence of God, the presence of Trump. (Réjean Lévesque)

9288. No diet will remove the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. (Covert Bailey)

9289. Before the truth can set you free, you must first recognize which lies are holding you hostage. (?)

9290. There is no such thing as sad courage. (Marcel Jouhandeau)

9291. What we take to be true is our reality. (David Bohm)

9292. The French will say "no" to everything, but this "no" has different meanings for it hides something else: they are afraid of the mistake, so they say "no". (Jean-Benoît Nadeau)

9293. If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. (Norman Thomas)

9294. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die. (Klingon proverb)

9295. The croaking of the frogs does not prevent the elephants from drinking. (African proverb)

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Sunday, December 11, 2022

The Frictionary # 974

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9276. Happiness equals reality minus expectations. (Tim Magliozzi)

9277. Women remember their first kiss long after men have forgotten their last. (Rémy de Gourmont)

9278. I'm single by choice. Not my choice. (Orny Adams)

9279. When a mouse sees a bat go by, it shouts, "Oh, an angel!". (Michel Tournier)

9280. Rage, n. Anger on steroids. (Mardy Grothe)

9281. When cars will start thinking, Rolls Royces will be more stressed than taxis. (Henri Michaux)

9282. Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. (Meg Greenfield)

9283. Destiny is what happens to us when we don't expect it. (Tahar Ben Jelloun)

9284. Never, under any circumstance, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. (Dave Barry)

9285. When I see all the poverty everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. (Victor Hugo)

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Sunday, December 04, 2022

The Frictionary # 973

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9266. A novel is a mirror out for a ride on a highway. (Stendhal)

9267. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. (Arthur Miller)

9268. What Americans excel in is ignoring their ignorance. Some are even proud of it. (Réjean Lévesque)

9269. The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

9270. What expresses joy the best? Dance. (Réjean Lévesque)

9271. The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. (Jean-Paul Kauffmann)

9272. Why can't women be priests? Is the penis the router's antenna that allows a wireless wi-fi connection to God? (Boucar Diouf)

9273. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. (Leonard Cohen)

9274. Who picks up after seeing eye dogs? (?)

9275. Isn't the present moment the exact middle point of infinity? (Varoujan Doneyan)

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