Sunday, August 25, 2024

The Frictionary # 1062

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10156. A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised. (Tom Robbins)

10157. You don't see the world as it is - you see the world as you are. (The Talmud)

10158. Snakes don't do very much until they kill. (David Attenborough)

10159. Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco)

10160. Fear itself these days is America's top selling consumer product. (Lewis H. Lapham)

10161. A woman forgives everything, except that she is not wanted. (Alfred de Musset)

10162. Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. (Barbara Sher)

10163. It is always what shines that remains in the shadows. (Edgar Morin)

10164. A plumber never bites his nails. (?)

10165. Genius gives birth, talent delivers. (Jack Kerouac)

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Sunday, August 18, 2024

The Frictionary # 1061

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10146. Any fool can know. The point is to understand. (Albert Einstein)

10147. My theory is babies don't start crying till they see who their parents are. (Tom Toles "Randolph Itch 2 AM")

10148. Poetry is asking words to bring light back into our lives. (Ynes Bonnefoy)

10149. Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. (Joyce Meyer)

10150. Suicide is a cowardice. It’s a duel with an unarmed opponent. Suicide is a cowardice. It’s a duel with an unarmed opponent. (Alfred Capus)

10151. An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. (Earl Wison)

10152. When life is a necklace/ each day is a pearl/ When life is a cage/ each day is a tear. (Jacques Prévert)

10153. Musicians don't retire - they stop when there's no more music in them. (Louis Armstrong)

10154. Pancakes are just boneless waffles. (?)

10155. Life, well lived, is long enough. (Seneca)

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Sunday, August 11, 2024

The Frictionary # 1060

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10136. History is not what happened but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance. (Maria Popova)

10137. Love needs eyes, as thought needs memory. (Suzanne Curchod aka Mme Necker).

10138. All that you touch/ You Change/ All that you Change/ Changes you/ The only lasting truth/ Is Change/ God/ is Change. (Octavia E. Butler)

10139. Not choosing is still choosing. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

10140. This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before. (Maya Angelou)

10141. The dead get more flowers than the living because regrets are stronger than gratitude. (Anne Frank)

10142. Last year, I spent my staycation in Patio Vallarta. (Bette Sullivan)

10143. At a certain age, all women want to be widows. (Roch Carrier)

10144. I'm allergic to rice, I'm basmatic. (Shappi Khorsandi)

10145. A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles. (Tim Cahill)

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Sunday, August 04, 2024

The Frictionary # 1059

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10126. War is a matter where poor men who do not know each other at all kill each other so that rich men who know each other very well do not kill each other. (Victor Cohen Hadria)

10127. What do the stars dream of/ down there/ at the bottom/ of the lake? (Positively Wyrde)

10128. I love television. When I close my eyes, it's almost as good as radio. (Pierre-Jean Vaillard)

10129. Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. (W. Somerset Maugham)

10130. It’s funny, saints, you never meet them in their lifetime. (René Char)

10131. No amount of belief makes something a fact. (James Randi)

10132. Imagination is the soul's eye. (Joseph Joubert)

10133. A normal adolescent isn’t a normal adolescent if he acts normal. (Judith Viorst)

10134. Don't look back. You're not going that way. (?)

10135. Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. (Jean de La Bruyère)

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