Sunday, April 28, 2024

The Frictionary # 1045

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

9986. It's not about the words. It's about the memories lost inside the words. (Virginia Woolf)

9987. What is terrible with old age is that we stay young. (Jean Cocteau)

9988. -Hillary called Tucker Carlson a "useful idiot"! - It's the "useful" part that bothers me. (Brooks Riley "Catspeak")

9989. Two spouses must be careful not to quarrel when they no longer love each other enough for reconciliation. (Jean Rostand)

9990. Successfully achieving coolness in high school is like being knighted by Ronald McDonald. (David Cain)

9991. The church accepts progress wherever it cannot prevent it. (Helge Krog)

9992. How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? (Howard Zinn)

9993. If you want to think like the majority, don't think. (Albert Brie)

9994. When was the last time that an atheist knocked on your door and asked if you had allowed Darwin into your life? (?)

9995. Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. (Tomas Szasz)

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

The Frictionary # 1044

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

9976. The infinite is transparent. (Octavio Paz)

9977. Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. (Fran Lebowitz)

9978. Committee: Plural of procrastinator. (Michel Lauzière)

9979. Each man to himself an I-land,/ And on each a windswept longing/To be loved. (Lucy Ellmann)

9980. Doubt: Cancer of the faith. (Georges Elgozy)

9981. When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care. (Medgar Evers)

9982. Do pregnant women receive special treatment on Labor Day? (Réjean Lévesque)

9983. Speeches are like babies - easy to conceive but hard to deliver. (Pat O'Malley)

9984. Dogs prepare you for babies. Cats prepare you for teenagers. (?)

9985. Curiosity is born of jealousy. (Molière)

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

The Frictionary # 1043

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

9966. Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end. (Stephen King)

9967. Proust, is the psychology of splitting ass hairs. (René Crevel)

9968, Nothing frightens the state, or its partner in crime, organized religion, so much as the prospect of a population thinking for itself and living free. (Tom Robbins)

9969. Before Trump, we relied on surveys. Now, we know that we should not believe either. (Stéphane Laporte)

9970. To truly forgive is to allow the other to forget. (Robert Brault)

9971. When it falls, the tree leaves two holes, The one in the sky is larger. (Félix Leclerc)

9972. Man is the highest rated animal. At least among those animals that returned the survey. (funnyoneliners)

9973. The past is never secure with historians prowling about. (Réjean Lévesque)

9974. When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. (?)

9975. The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing? (Ellie Katz)

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Sunday, April 07, 2024

The Frictionary # 1042

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

9956. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. (Frederick Douglass)

9957. Today is my birthday. Really! Why would I lie, I'm not president of the United States. (Hugo Léger)

9958. The reward and the sacrifice are inextricable. (David Cain)

9959. Experience is the name that everyone gives to the sum of their mistakes. (Bernard Werber)

9960. There are no passengers on spaceship Earth.  We are all crew. (Marshall McLuhan)

9961. The fear of not being enough, and the fear of being too much, are exactly the same fear, the fear of being you. (Nayyira Waheed)

9962. To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. (Terri Guillemets)

9963. It is public opinion that crucified Christ. (Russian proverb)

9964. Life! Shake well before using. (?)

9965. The trouble is, you think you have time. (Buddha)

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