The Frictionary # 984

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

9376. Women don't suffer from penis envy. Men do. (Joseph Heller)

9377. Family is a good thing only if you chose it. (Daniel Pinard)

9378. Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. (William Lyon Phelps)

9379. He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. (Voltaire)

9380. Before the rubber band, lobsters ruled the earth. (Matt Donaher)

9381. Life is dangerous: you can die. (Maude Landry)

9382. Doesn't Prince Charles [now King Charles III ] look like somebody kissed a frog, and it didn't change all the way. (Wendy Liebman)

9383. Cinema is canned theater. (Louis Jouvet)

9384. All men are cremated equal. (Spike Milligan)

9385. In love, the only victory is flight. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. Subscribe and receive this free weekly blog in your in-box. Have a great week!

The Frictionary # 983

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

9366. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it. (H.L. Mencken)

9367. You can't keep yourself from aging, but you can keep yourself from getting old. (Henri Matisse)

9368. The aurora is delicate, its airiness calling forth humility, awe's close cousin. You fall mute in its silence, for if you shout you might break the sky. (Bill Murray -the writer)

9369. Nostalgia is a hard drug, and music a soft drug. (Marc Cassivi)

9370. The old are kind/ the young are hot./ Love may be blind./ Desire is not. (Leonard Cohen)

9371. Curiosity (...) is what brings us the closest to youth. (Daniel Bélanger)

9372. People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. (Max Eastman)

9373. What is most intriguing to married people is what can bachelors be doing with their money. (Jean Rigaux)

9374. Trails often look more flat on the map. (Matthew Turner -National Parks Service)

9375. Justice is free. Fortunately, it is not compulsory. (Jules Renard)

The Frictionary # 982

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

9356. Friendship asks for nothing in return except maintenance. (Georges Brassens)

9357.  A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw)

9358. What is country-style dining? It is where you eat local produce while competing with the flies. (Réjean Lévesque)

9359. Where there's a will (with your name on it), there's a way. (Vighal Ramesh) 

9360. Il y a une pénurie d'employés. Jamais de pénurie de patrons. (Stéphane Laporte)

9361. The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. (Demetri Martin)

9362. Those who never cry are full of tears. (Maurice Chapelan)

9363. Fruit - that transcendent alchemy of sunlight into sugar. (Maria Popova)

9364. When people treat you like they don't care, believe them. (?)

9365. To Oedipus, Saint Valentine's Day falls on Mothers' Day. (Philippe Geluck)

That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. Subscribe and receive this free weekly blog in your in-box. Have a great week!

The Frictionary # 981

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

9346. One of life's mysteries is how people who never listen can be so misinformed. (Robert Brault) 

9347. - Describe yourself using only one word.  - No. (Laetitia Castwa)

9348. No two persons ever read the same book. (Edmund Wilson)

9349. The fog, without the splendor/ of a sunny memory would only be a fake blind man with a dog of phony loyalty. (Jacques Prévert)

9350. Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. (Tom Robbins)

9351. Gratefulness has a short memory. (Benjamin Constant)

9352. Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. (Bill Cosby)

9353. Some think that happiness is like the future: it's for later. (Richard Desjardins)

9354. We invented God to make us good, and Satan to explain why we're not. (?)

9355. Journalism is organized gossip. (Edward Eggleston)

That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. Subscribe and receive this free weekly blog in your in-box. Have a great week!