Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Frictionary # 1041

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9946. When the heart is full, the eyes overflow. (Sholem Aleichem)

9947. Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition. (Hugh Prather)

9948. The one who crawls never falls. (Stoyan Mikhailovski)

9949. Journalism is printing what someone does not want printed; everything else is public relations. (George Orwell attr.)

9950. Countries are like fruits, worms are always inside. (Jean Giraudoux)

9951. As I dream of the rain's long body,/ I will eliminate from mind all the qualities that rain deletes/ and then I will be primed to study rain's power. (Rodney Jones)

9952. Canada: A great bilingual country where immigrants are encouraged to speak two languages: English and their mother tongue. (Michel Lauzière)

9953. FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. (David White)

9954. Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give that man religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. (?)

9955. In France, ridicule does not kill. It's a living. (Henri Jeanson)

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Sunday, March 24, 2024

The Frictionary # 1040

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9936. One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving. (Amy Carmichael)

9937. People who tell us to disobey; should we obey them? (Pierre Légaré)

9938. A dog who thinks he is man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer. (Fran Lebowitz)

9939. For most men, a discouraging example is the pig's serenity. (Anatole France)

9940. Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow. (Louis de Bernières)

9941. Friendship is an umbrella that turns over in bad weather. (Pierre Véron)

9942. It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. (Lewis Carroll)

9943. The truth is that there is no truth. (Pablo Neruda)

9944. Magician: Super duper. (Art Moger)

9945. In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. (Gertrude Stein)

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

The Frictionary # 1039

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9926. Happiness is an abstract word composed of some ideas of pleasure. (Voltaire)

9927. The only cure for grief is to grieve. (Earl Grollman)

9928. If God is really everywhere, how do you explain Trump? Is He in his pants? (Réjean Lévesque)

9929. All of those ideas about the future are actually made of memories. (David Cain)

9930. Greed is a sin that pays off. (Paul Morand)

9931. The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. Frederic Lawrence Knowles)

9932. Every apple is a flower that has known love. (Félix Leclerc)

9933. I'm looking for love, but I'll settle for peanut butter. (Victoria Roberts)

9934. We know where you live...(USPS). (?)

9935. If the experience was useful, after a while, we would stop getting the cold! (George Bernard Shaw)


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Sunday, March 10, 2024

The Frictionary # 1038

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9916. Young, we think of death without waiting for it; old, we wait for it without thinking. (Maurice Chapelan)

9917. Men(...). Unable to make babies they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. (Lucy Ellmann)

9918. Advertising cannot be objective. That is not its job. It always carries a superlative. (Jean-Jacques Stréliski)

9919. The most fantastical and unbelievable thing in The Lord of the Rings is that Legolas never stops at the arrow store once to refill. (Pat Tobin

9920. The seed hidden in the heart of the apple is an invisible orchard. (Welsh proverb)

9921. There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. (Malcolm S. Forbes)

9922. You will never get any more out of life than you expect. (Bruce Lee)

9923. The unconscious takes revenge at night. (Louis Scutenaire)

9924. If we are made in God's image...shouldn't we be invisible? (?)

9925. Kids don't leave school because we didn't give them enough facts, but because they didn't find any meaning in them. (Gertrude Moskowitz)

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Sunday, March 03, 2024

The Frictionary # 1037

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9906. If you are against freedom of speech, you should not be allowed to say it. (Julien Tremblay)

9907. Being a parent is the only job you can accidentally apply for. (Phil Hanley]

9908. It's so much easier to hate and be certain than to sing and be moved. (David Oates)

9909. Philosophy is like Russia: full of swamps, and often invaded by the Germans. (Roger Nimier)

9910. Sleep is death without the responsibility. (Fran Lebowitz)

9911. Mimes wear gloves so they won't smudge the glass box. (Réjean Lévesque)

9912. The older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love that you need. (Leonard Cohen)

9913. There is much beauty in the things we do not control. (Marc Séguin)

9914. I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish. (Lefty Gomez)

9915. We dream of immortality because we are creatures made of loss. (Maria Popova)

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