Sunday, November 08, 2026

The Frictionary # 1177

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

11296. Loyalty and jealousy are the greatness of dogs and the misfortune of saints. (Lao She)

11297. Fashion is what goes out of fashion. (jean Cocteau)

11298. I never take the beaten path. I am against all forms of violence. (Réjean Lévesque)

11299. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. (Gene Tierney)

11300. Having merit in abstaining from fault is a way to be guilty. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

11301. A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. (Woodrow Wyatt)

11302. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. (Vaclav Havel)

11303. If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. (James Gorman)

11304. A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. (?)

11305. If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. (George D. Aiken)

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!


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