Sunday, April 19, 2026

The Frictionary # 1148

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

10996. The secret of living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. (Tibetan proverb)

10997. You are the music/ while the music lasts. (T.S. Eliot)

10998. I don’t want a tombstone. Time erases everything. Let’s help him. (Catherine Mavrikakis)

10999. Creationism is the belief that God could create the world in 6 days but couldn't find 2 naked people hiding in a garden. (John Fugelsang)

11000. It’s not because there is a rose on the rose bush that the bird lands there: it’s because there are aphids. (Jules Renard)

11001. Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. (Aldous Huxley)

11002. I quite like being alone, and my pleasure is sometimes greater depending on who isn’t there. (Philippe Geluck)

11003. The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. (Brian Herbert)

11004. How do flat-earthers explain the seasons? (?)

11005. The greatest folly of man is to believe that things happen because he desires them. (Laure Conan)

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Sunday, April 12, 2026

The Frictionary # 1147

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10986. Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop. (Robert Musil)

10987. If there were a vaccine against love, you should take it. (Thomas R. Wells)

10988. The meaning of life? Shakespeare had it pat: "To be or not to be". The meaning of my life? I am. (Réjean Lévesque)

10989. Compromises are temporary. (Jérôme Garcin)

10990. Finish last in your league and they call you idiot, Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. (Abe Lemons)

10991. I have never believed that man’s freedom consists of doing what he wants, but rather of never doing what he doesn’t want. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

10992. Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. (Fannie Hurst)

10993. The most incomprehensible thing in the world is the patience of the poor. (Léon Bloy)

10994. Cotton candy: parents' enemy. (Jim Gaffigan)

10995. If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist. (Dorothy Day)

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Sunday, April 05, 2026

The Frictionary # 1146

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10976. Remember, kid, if the service is free, then YOU are the product. (John Darkow)

10977. Remembering is easy for those who have memory, but forgetting is difficult for those who have heart. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

10978. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce)

10979. Giving a name to a person or a thing is a sacrament, a baptism. (Réjean Lévesque)

10980. People often claim to hunger for the truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. (George R.R. Martin)

10981. All life is an adventure navigating between the unhoped-for and the unexpected. (François Cheng)

10982. 0=the nothing that is. (Robert Kaplan)

10983. Only the skin separates love from friendship. It’s thin. (Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

10984. Monday must be a man. It comes too quickly. (?)

10985. I listened to the voice of doubt and it told me its true name is curiosity. (Micah J. Murray)

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