The Frictionary # 1105

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

10566. Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. (Edison Haines)

10567. There are no pills against narcissism. Being manipulative is not a mental illness. (Marie-Ève Cotton)

10568. It takes the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. (Figgy Joyce)

10569. We are not infallible because we are sincere. (Sacha Guitry)

10570. The shadow of the zebra has no stripes. (African proverb)

10571. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. (Bill Maher)

10572. What a woman calls being right is not having all the wrongs. (Sophie Arnoud)

10573. Any general statement is like a cheque on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. (Ezra Pound)

10574. Be decisive. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision. (?)

10575. Who has not known absence knows nothing of love. (Christian Bobin)

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!

The Frictionary # 1104

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

10556. Freedom of expression is a farce if factual information is not guaranteed and the facts themselves are not the subject of debate. Hannah Arendt)

10557. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see. (Alexandra K. Trenfor)

10558.  The more I know men, the more I love women. (Francis Blanche)

10559. Science does not deal in facts - it deals in hypotheses, which are never fully and finally correct. (Orson Scott Card)

10560. Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. (Italo Calvino)

10561. Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. (Kin Hubbard)

10562. Without humour, cruelty is everywhere. (Gary Vidor)

10563. Never mind maps/ borders are invisible scars/ they do not divide land/ only people. (Positively Wyrde)

10564. Never make a woman mad, they can remember stuff that hasn't happened yet. (?)

10465. History is written by those who win. (Robert Brasillach)

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!

The Frictionary # 1103

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

10546. All men are equal... even women. (Isabelle Alonso)

10547. Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïveté. (Maria Popova)

10548. Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

10549. There are two tragedies in life./ One is not to get your heart's desire./ The other is to get it. (George Bernard Shaw)

10550. Who rides a tiger cannot dismount. (Chinese proverb)

10551. Just because we got there doesn’t mean we’re done. (André Sauvé)

10552. People were given a vast universe to teach them humility and they invented astrology to make it all about them. (Bon Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10553. In the past, there was more future than now. (Philippe Geluck)

10554. Zoos are elaborate prisons for animals who aren't delicious. (?)

10555. To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the end. (Helen Rowland)

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!

The Frictionary # 1102

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

10536. Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes. (Jan Masaryk)

10537. Depressions may bring people closer to the church - but so do funerals. (Clarence Darrow)

10538. Super glue setting time: wood: 30sec. plastic:20 sec. ceramic: 15 sec. fingers: instant. (Laetitia Castwa)

10539. It took less than an hour to make the atom, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man.* *Numbers now revised.

10540. Lying is the talent of those who do not have any. (Marie-Josph Chénier)

10541. The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. (Ned Rorem)

10542. Thousands upon thousands have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health. (Adelle Davis)

10543. I am the ocean/ who longs to touch your foot. (Richard Desjardins)

10544. I was playing chess with a friend and he said, "Let's make this interesting." So, we stopped playing chess. (?)

10545. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of female begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." (Shirley Chisholm)

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!