Sunday, February 25, 2024

The Frictionary # 1036

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9896. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. (Agnes Moorehead)

9897. If the ability to speak many languages is an asset, the ability to shut up is priceless. (Jean Gabin)

9898. For what are stars but asterisks to point a human life. (Emily Dickinson)

9899. Politicians grow on human manure. (Francis Picabia)

9900. If God is really everywhere, there is no place he can go. (Réjean Lévesque paraphrasing Michel Lauzière)

9901. The only power an actor has is his ability to say "No.". (Lou Diamond Phillips)

9902. My kids have to go to school so I can love them again. (Post-pandemic note). (Derek Séguin)

9903. I think the continents drifted apart because of Australia. (Roman Frayssinet)

9904. Kids into sports means parents and transport. [?)

9905. Life is unfair. Politics is worse. (Rick Mercer)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!





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Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Frictionary # 1035

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9886. You can't learn from mistakes if, in your view, you haven't made any. (Mardy Grothe)

9887. It is very easy to write about your remembrances when you have a bad memory. (Arthur Schnitzler)

9888. Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

9889. The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. (Søren Kierkegaard)

9890. A pessimist is a man who has worked for three months with an optimist. (Robert Beauvais)

9891. The USA is the number one reality show in Canada. (Alonzo Bodden)

9892. Beauty is a sport where off-sides are frequent. (Frédéric Beigbeder)

9893. There's never a line for the men's room. The Lord works in misogynous ways. (Mike Baldwin "Cornered")

9894. God is innocent.  Noah built in a flood plain. (?)

9895. Pain passes, beauty remains. (Auguste Renoir)

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

The Frictionary # 1034

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9876. Nobility is the mystic property of the seminal liquid. (Paul Valéry)

9877. I finally got my life going in the right direction but I was in the wrong lane. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

9878. Fashion is the worst prostitute. (Madeleine Ferron)

9879. There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. (Fran Lebowitz)

9880. If violence doesn't solve your problem, it's because you don't hit hard enough. (Pierre Desproges)

9881. Alone is a fact, a condition where there no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that. (Twyla Tharp)

9882.  The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. (Louis de Bernières)

9883. Marriage and macaroni are good only when hot. (Italian proverb)

9884. Jacuzzi: Bath that allows you to fart incognito. (Michel Lauzière)

9885. A pessimist is never disappointed. (Maurice Chapelan)

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Sunday, February 04, 2024

The Frictionary # 1033

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9866. A blind obedience presupposes an extreme ignorance. (Jean-Paul Marat)

9867. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough. (Oprah Winfrey)

9868. We tend to classify species linearly, from insect to fish to reptile to bird up to mammal, with Ron DeSantis at the top. (Yves Boisvert)

9869. Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. (Woody Allen)

9870. Mohammed said, "Being naked is not improper". As long as you put clothes over it. (Réjean Lévesque)

9871. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? (...) Most likely some fowl play happened. (Anu Garg)

9872. I am pessimistic by intelligence. Optimistic by will. (Antonio Gramsci)

9873. Relatives are the one thing Amazon can't deliver. (Stephen King)

9874. When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say. (?)

9875. People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them. (Arundhati Roy)

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