Sunday, November 26, 2023

The Frictionary # 1023

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9766. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. (Albert Einstein)

9767. Punctuation is not spelling, it is thought. (Alexandre Vialatte)

9768. A flower is a weed with an advertising budget. (Rory Sutherland)

9769. How slow is life/ And how violent is Hope. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

9770. Always obey your parents, when they are present. (Mark Twain)

9771. Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference. (Marcus Aurelius)

9772. Being alive in a sea/ without a single sail/ in sight. (Ko Un)

9773. My parents never took me camping. You know why? Because they loved me. (Jim Gaffigan)

9774. Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetics. (?)

9775. The best thing to do is to do your best. (René Barjavel)

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Sunday, November 19, 2023

THe Frictionary # 1022

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9756. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. (Gore Vidal)

9757. Along a moonlit river/ our thoughts moving/ with the water. (Etsujin)

9758. There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. (Joseph Addison)

9759. Funny, but to live consists in making future memories. (Ernesto Sábato)

9760. It's embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other. (Aldous Huxley)

9761. When I have nothing to say, I want people to know. (Raymond Devos)

9762. An optimist looks forward to marriage. A pessimist is a married optimist. (Milton Berle)

9763. Fish live in water, the brain lives in dreams. (Jean Barbe)

9764. To consider faith as a virtue is a laissez-passé to ignorance. (?)

9765. The present is the point at which time touches eternity. (C.S. Lewis)

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Sunday, November 12, 2023

The Frictionary # 1021

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9746. To invent is to discern, to choose. (Henri Poincaré)

9747. It is said that "power corrupts", but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. (David Brin)

9748. Gaiety is the most amiable form of courage. (Anatole France)

9749. I was born by cesarean section, but you can't really tell. Except that when I leave my house, I always go out the window. (Steven Wright)

9750. Consumer society is solitude wrapped in belongings. (Jacques Folch-Ribas)

9751. Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. (Wilt Chamberlain)

9752. Hope: The spare wheel of will. (Michel Lauzière)

9753. Do what you will/ This Life's a Fiction/ And is made up of Contradiction. (William Blake)

9754. If God is a catholic, how come he had only one son. (?)

9755. No man is a prophet in his own country, but that's no reason for shutting up. (François Cavanna) 

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Sunday, November 05, 2023

The Frictionary # 1020

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9736. The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. (Alexander Fleming)

9737. A child upon seeing a grand mosque exclaimed/ God just one of you and such a big house. (Nida Fazli)

9738. Tradition is such a glorified word for habit. (Coyote Sings)

9739. To be moved is to breathe with your heart. (Pierre Reverdy)

9740. Life continues whether you pay attention to it or not. I think that's why the passage of time is so scary. (Cory Muscara)

9741. Dogs? The most stupid of animals. They trust humans. (Christian Vanasse)

9742. All children are atheists, they have no idea of God. (Paul Thiry d'Holbach)

9743. Nature loves variety, even though society hates it. (Milton Diamond)

9744. Some say that the Bible is the truth because it says so in the Bible. (?)

9745. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem)

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