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The Frictionary # 439

2013-05-19T12:29:00.000-04:00

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4306. The reason why so little is done is generally because so little is attempted. (Samuel Smiles)

4307. Spent the evening putting together Ikea furniture. I need to learn how to swear in Swedish. (Benjamin Wallace)

4308. Hope is the privilege of losers. (Jean Van Hamme)

4309. A lot of people cry when they cut onions. The trick is not to form an emotional bond. (newfylover1)

4310. Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. (Antonio Porchia)

4311. Courage is fire, bullying is smoke. (Benjamin Disraeli)

4312. Time is the alembic that turns what we know into mystery. (Anne Michaels)

4313. Muslims do not have piggy banks. (Redouanne Harjane)

4314. I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. (John Meynard Keynes)

4315. A sigh just isn't a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can. (Salman Rushdie)

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The Frictionary # 438

2013-05-12T11:45:00.000-04:00

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4296. Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (William Allen White)

4297. The more you know, the more there is just beyond, and it keeps on coming. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

4298. Man is born good. It starts to degrade between 6 and 7 months. (Georges Perros)

4299. Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. (Kahlil Gibran)

4300. To make time go by at a rythm that suits you and to make it more exciting, trade your hourglass for a pepper mill. (Grégoire Lacroix)

4301. Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. (Israel Zangwill)

4302. Sometimes, the first step to forgiveness is understanding that the other person is a complete idiot. (funnyoneliners)

4303. I often think about nothing, which is better than not thinking at all. (Raymond Queneau)

4304. Worry is the darkroom in which "negatives" are developed. (?)

4305. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

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The Frictionary # 437

2013-05-05T11:59:00.000-04:00

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4286. Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. (Oscar Wilde)

4287. The signs of Spring! The birds singing. The trees budding (...). Taking down our Christmas lights. (Glen McCoy "The Duplex")

4288. Experience teaches us that it is much easier to take hostages than it is to release them. (André Frossard)

4289. Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. (Al McGuire)

4290. "Charity begins at home" - along with beating, Homeland Security and obesity. (Tropicbob at "Quote/Counterquote*")
* http://www.quote/counterquote.com/

4291. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. (Ryunosuke Satoro)

4292. Antipathy is like love: it implies a certain reciprocity. (Frédéric Dard)

4293. The true poem is in the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship builder. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

4294. Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. (?)

4295. Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. (Mignon McLaughlin)

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The Frictionary # 436

2013-04-28T12:48:00.000-04:00

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4276. Among politicians and businessmen, pragmatism is the current term for "to hell with our children". (Edward Abbey)

4277. Clocks do not make time
they only impose an illusion of order
on an essential chaos. (Positively Wyrde)

4278. By being always just, we often end up guilty. (Pierre Corneille)

4279. Doubt is the father of invention. (Galileo Galilei)

4280. I think Victoria's secret is: She's a he. (Wendy Liebman)

4281. Only the present is true, but it's already past. (Yves Floranne)

4282. I always thought by 2013 we would have flying cars. Instead we have blankets with sleeves. (funnyoneliners)

4283. When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands. (H.L. Mencken)

4284. We must never forget that marriage was instituted in an era when life expectancy was less than forty. (?)

4285. Art like life should be free, since both are experimental. (George Santayana)

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The Frictionary # 435

2013-04-21T11:32:00.000-04:00

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4266. Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. (Charles Caleb Colton)

4267. Are you wishy-washy? Maybe yes, it depends More or less Yes and no All of the above...but again maybe not. (Dave Whamond "Reality Check")

4268. Poetry is indispensable - if only I knew what for. (Jean Cocteau)

4269. We come spinning out of nothingness
Scattering stars like dust. The stars form a circle
And in the center we dance. (Rumi)

4270. To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. (Doug Larson)

4271. I dream, therefore I exist. (August Strindberg)

4272. Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. (Ninon de Lenclos)

4273. Of course we gays dress well. We don't spend all that time in the closet doing nothing. (Simon Chilvers)

4274. We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (François de La Rochefoucaud)

4275. Where facts are few, experts are many. (Donald R. Gannon)

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The Frictionary # 434

2013-04-14T11:59:00.000-04:00

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4256. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. (Tenzin Gyatso - The Dalai Lama)

4257. Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. (Shelby Friedman)

4258. The only weapon I find interesting is the corkscrew. (Jean Carnet)

4259. The main ingredient in hand sanitizer...paranoia. (Newfylover1)

4260. Ceasefire
both sides pray
while they reload. (Coyote Sings)

4261. Facts do not penetrate the world where our beliefs live. (Marcel Proust)

4262. Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. (Kin Hubbard)

4263. Strong people have strong weaknesses. (Peter Drucker)

4264. Death is the only exam that can't be flunked. (?)

4265. The past, the future, two halves of life where one says 'never' and the other says 'always'. (Alphonse de Lamartine)

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The Frictionary # 433

2013-04-07T11:01:00.000-04:00

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4246. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care. (Kurtis Lavoie)

4247. Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. (Lane Olinghouse)

4248. If we'd factor in the services rendered to science, the frog would take first place. (Claude Bernard)

4249. Invitation is the sincerest flattery. (Carolyn Wells)

4250. A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music. (Ramon Gomez de la Serna)

4251. Semicolons: they are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

4252. Street whispers, the wall listens. (madeleinebleue)

4253. If he swallows his pride, he'll surely get indigestion. (Réjean Lévesque)

4254. Capitalism without bankruptcy is like christianism without hell. (Frank Borman)

4255. Happiness held is the seed - Happiness shared is the flower. (John Harrigan)

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The Frictionary # 432

2013-03-31T12:07:00.001-04:00

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4236. Round numbers are always false. (Samuel Johnson)

4237. Fear is the brother of hate. (Larry Niven)

4238. It's been said that fear is the brother of hate, the mother of morality, the parent of cruelty. Fear is very incestuous. (Réjean Lévesque)

4239. Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. (Jason Love)

4240. Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal. (Rabindranath Tagore)

4241. Every exit is an entry somewhere else. (Tom Stoppard)

4242. Can you name a movie that was made into a book? (Pierre Foglia)

4243. I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know. (James Brown)

4244. A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. (?)

4245. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. (Miguel de Unamuno)

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The Frictionary # 431

2013-03-24T12:01:00.001-04:00

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4226. In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. (Stephen Leacock)

4227. Optimus Prime came out of the closet and confessed his auto-sexuality. (Billy Tellier)

4228. The more you understand, the less you have to remember. (Craig A. McGraw)

4229. Winter is not a season. It's an occupation. (Sinclair Lewis)

4230. And if you have nothing to say, it's not worth it to let everybody know. (Francis Blanche)

4231. Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says the truth, you harvest what you sow. (Rumi)

4232. Hospital is a place where they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill. (Kelle Rizzio)

4233. I don't want to believe, I want to know. (Carl Sagan)

4234. Fortune cookie: "You will be hungry again in one hour." (?)

4235. When nothing is sure, everything is possible. (Margaret Drabble)

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The Frictionary # 430

2013-03-17T11:54:00.000-04:00

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4216. A laugh is a smile that bursts. (Mary H. Waldrip)

4217. You cannot desire what you do not know. (Ovid)

4218. Truth belongs to those who know early. (Billy Tellier)

4219. I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over. (Woody Allen)

4220. You can't really know what you want until you know you don't know what you want. (David Cain)

4221. The uterus is a timed rental. The grave is property for life. (Malcolm de Chazal)

4222. Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Herman Melville)

4223. There are two kinds of time, the one that waits and the one that hopes. (Jacques Brel)

4224. Learn from your parents' mistakes: use birth control. (?)

4225. The Milky Way feeds her little stars from the Big Dipper. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 429

2013-03-10T12:16:00.000-04:00

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4206. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Charlie Chaplin)

4207. To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was tautology. (Mark Twain)

4208. The camembert, the cheese that smells like God's feet. (Léon-Paul Fargue)

4209. It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. (Niccolo Machiavelli)

4210. Artificial insemination: procreation without representation. (Evan Esar)

4211. A pier is a disappointed bridge. (Julian Barnes)

4212. There will be no end of the world; our universe is self-composting. (Réjean Lévesque)

4213. An infinity of forests lie dormant within the dream of one acorn. (Wayne Dyer)

4214. Architects cover their mistakes with ivy, doctors with earth, and brides with sauce. (?)

4215, Bible: America's favorite national theatrical prop. (George Carlin)

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The Frictionary # 428

2013-03-03T11:21:00.000-05:00

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4196. An empty man is full of himself. (Edward Abbey)

4197. A conscience is what hurts when everything else feels great. (Mason Mastroiani-B.C.)

4198. Laughter is a weapon of mass derision. (Christian Vanasse)

4199. Lawyer: the only man in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Elbert Hubbard)

4200. God seems to spend entirely too much time helping people with awards. (Gary Zanetti)

4201. Generally, when a thing becomes useful, it ceases being beautiful. (Théophile Gautier)

4202. He was looking for love and found it in his mirror. (Réjean Lévesque)

4203. The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil. (Arab proverb)

4204. I steal the pauses
between your words
for a minute of silence. (Coyote Sings)

4205. There are only two places in the world: over here and over there. (George Carlin)

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The Frictionary # 427

2013-02-24T12:32:00.000-05:00

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4186. Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. (H.L. Mencken)

4187. The scariest thing a doctor can tell you: "It's probably nothing...".(Dave Barry)

4188. Fear of the adjective is the beginning of style. (Paul Claudel)

4189. Don't believe in tradition. It is a form of laziness. (Leopold Stokowski)

4190. Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it. (Sathya Sai Baba)

4191. Nothing is impossible; the word itself says "I'm possible". (Audrey Hepburn)

4192. What is the minimum payment for something that is priceless? (Réjean Lévesque)

4193. Cable TV is now evenly divided between shows about preparing food and shows about losing weight. (Andy Borowitz)

4194. Is criticism about the subject
Or the cleverness of the critic. (Positively Wyrde*)
*AKA Bauke Kamstra.

4195. The quieter you become, the more you can hear. (Ram Dass)

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The Frictionary # 426

2013-02-17T11:24:00.000-05:00

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4176. Dreams can come true. Especially the boring ones. (Mike Baldwin - Cornered)

4177. A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. (Doug Larson)

4178. The mind draws the line on the page where the heart will write the melody. (Réjean Lévesque)

4179. Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. (Stephen Fry)

4180. Testing is not teaching. (Joy Behar)

4181. If God had not created woman, he would not have made the flower. (Victor Hugo)

4182. Those that can't do teach, and those that can't teach, teach gym. (Woody Allen)

4183. The true paradises are the paradises we have lost. (Marcel Proust)

4184. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. (Matt Groening)

4185. I don't believe in tradition. It is a form of laziness. Leopold Stokowski)

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The Frictionary # 425

2013-02-10T12:08:00.001-05:00

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4166. So often the last place we think to look for happiness is where we left it. (Robert Brault)

4167. The tree was old, the bird sang louder. (madeleinebleue)

4168. You think you'll be missed
It won't last long
I promise. (Michael Dickman)

4169. Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. (Doug Larson)

4170. Nothing beats solitude. To be perfectly happy, all that I need is someone to whom I can explain it. (Sylvain Tesson)

4171. Don't watch the clock, do what it does. Keep going. (Sam Levenson)

4172. Education is a state-controled manufactory of echoes. (Norman Douglas)

4173. Thinking is kind of talking to yourself and listening. (Réjean Lévesque)

4174. If you can't laugh at yourself, I'll do it for you. (?)

4175. The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another. (Dan Bennett)

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The Frictionary # 424

2013-02-03T11:37:00.000-05:00

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4156. There are no warlike peoples - just warlike leaders. (Ralph Bunche)

4157. Humor is the politeness of the desperate. (Boris Vian)

4158. From the sequenced larval mass of creation
that binds us with the others,
all playing the endgame of a beautiful planet. (Alison Hawthorne Deming)

4159. Farts are just food ghosts. (vhstapes2)

4160. Yesterday's victims are tomorrow's executioners. (Victor Schoelcher)

4161. The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. (Robert Brault)

4162. Please, don't call politicians "civil servants" because they are neither. (Réjean Lévesque)

4163. Each moment is a place you've never been. (Mark Strand)

4164. Fear is the highest fence. (Dudley Nichols)

4165. Insomnia: night disturbance from upstairs. (Sylvain Tesson)

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The Frictionary #423

2013-01-27T12:05:00.000-05:00

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4146. Doing nothing is a joy for children and a woe for the elderly. (Victor Hugo)

4147. Conspiracy is just another word for coalition. (Robert Anton Wilson)

4148. Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. (Georgio Basta)

4149. One billion humans die of hunger; another billion is overweight. This will keep the earth's rotation stable. (Réjean Lévesque)

4150. Bitextual: if you text two people at the same time. (Jemis)

4151. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. (Robert A. Heinlein)

4152. Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important. (Korean proverb)

4153. Curve: the loveliest distance between two points. (Mae West)

4154. Jealousy is self-love of the flesh. (Étienne Rey)

4155. Power without responsability - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. (Rudyard Kipling)

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The Frictionary # 422

2013-01-20T11:55:00.000-05:00

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4136. Exactitude is not the truth. (Henri Matisse)

4137.The principal part of faith is patience. (George MacDonald)

4138. Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang. (George Burns)

4139. You are not punished for your anger. You are punished by your anger. (Zen saying)

4140. Eventually you realize that the reason God didn't always answer your prayers is that He was answering your mom's prayers. (Robert Brault)

4141. Disappointment is a feeling that never disappoints. (François Mauriac)

4142. Your dog may be a "he" not an "it", but it's still a son of a bitch. (Réjean Lévesque)

4143. The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set. (Benjamin E. Mays)

4144. Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. (Maxwell Bodenheim)

4145. We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose. (Will Cuppy)

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The Frictionary # 421

2013-01-13T11:38:00.000-05:00

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4126. Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. (Eli Khamarov)

4127. Modesty died when clothes were born. (Mark Twain)

4128. Cat teaches me
how to love you
when you least
expect it. (Coyote Sings)

4129. Noise never hears the silence. (madeleinebleue)

4130. I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. (Wendy Liebman)

4131. The worse solitude is not being alone, but being bored by your own company. (Jacques Salomé)

4132. We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. (Persius)

4133. The trouble with real life is that there is no danger music. (Chip Douglas)

4134. If you notice a person is deceiving you, they must not be deceiving you very well. (?)

4135. "Potential immigrants to the US had to do a jigsaw puzzle to show their intelligence." The authorities were probably thinking that we already had our quota of idiots. No need to add more. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 420

2013-01-06T11:27:00.000-05:00

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4116. The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.(Charles Austin Beard)

4117. It's hard
to understand
but time apparently
expands with its
diminishing. (Kay Ryan)

4118. The paradox of the dictionary: words can only be explained by other words. (Antoine Blondin)

4119. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. (Rumi)

4120. Ladder of Success (Some assembly required). (Bob Thaves -Frank & Ernest)

4121. "Good and evil are the prejudices of God", said the snake. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

4122. Cryogenics is procrastination at its ultimate. (Réjean Lévesque)

4123. The true grave of the dead is the heart of the living. (Jean Cocteau)

4124. It is easier to count sheep when they're asleep. (ItsKatheeb)

4125. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

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The Frictionary # 419

2012-12-30T13:04:00.001-05:00

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4106. Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. (Bruce Calvert)

4107. Extremists think communication means agreeing with them. (Leo Rosten)

4108. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. (Rumi)

4109. Autumn leaves
But will be back
Next year. (Réjean Lévesque)

4110. The opposite of poverty is not wealth...In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice. (Bryan Stevenson)

4111. I try to stay in touch with reality but lately, it won't return my calls. (SpacemanQuisp)

4112. A circle is only a straight line that has come back to its starting point. (Frédéric Dard)

4113. Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. (Northrop Frye)

4114. Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. (David Letterman)

4115. Maturity is ripening without rotting. (Mary E. Armstrong)

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The Frictionary # 418

2012-12-23T11:37:00.000-05:00

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4096. Christmas is a time when you get homesick even when you're home. (Carol Nelson)

4097. Children are ungrateful. How many have written a thank you note to Santa on the 26th of December? (Réjean Lévesque)

4098. Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree
You aggravate my allergies. (Charles Bivona)

4099. Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of Santa? ("The Simpsons" - Bart)

4100. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses. (?)

4101. The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. (George Carlin)

4102. Be naughty! Save Santa a trip. (Nick Coppolillo)

4103. "That's the spirit!", said the ghost.(Réjean Lévesque)

4104. Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard. (Andy Borowitz)

4105. Ironically, the key to a good resolution is to avoid high-definition. (Bob Thaves - Frank & Ernest)

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The Frictionary # 417

2012-12-16T12:11:00.000-05:00

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4086. What we believe to be motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. (Miguel de Unamuno)

4087. The trouble with born again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. (Herb Caen)

4088. We only love well once, the first time: the other following loves are less involuntary. (Jean de La Bruyère)

4089. You can't be deep without a surface. (Jonathan Lethem)

4090. Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. (George Carlin)

4091. Your true friend is the one who excuses nothing and forgives everything. (Diane de Beausacq)

4092. There are two groups of people in the world, those who group people into groups, and the groups who are grouped by the groupers - there's a third group called 'morons'. (Glen McCoy - The Duplex)

4093. Yes doesn't struggle
With no
Only with but. (Lothar M. Kirsch)

4094. To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go. (Tao Te Ching)

4095. Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. (William M. Winans)

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The Frictionary # 416

2012-12-09T11:55:00.000-05:00

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4076. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. (Ralph Nader)

4077. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (Henry Brooks Adams)

4078. The optimist thinks that a night is surrounded by two days, the pessimist thinks that a day is surrounded by two nights. (Francis Picabia)

4079. Between going and staying
the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency. (Octavio Paz)

4080. If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. (Sarah Boseley)

4081. We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. (Alex Comfort)

4082. Laughter is quite the thing; it's contempt and understanding all rolled into one, and finally, the greatest way to look at life. (Gustave Flaubert)

4083. Congrats to every radio station in being number 1. (Patrick Mark Ryan)

4084. Some say they have found God. I didn't know he had lost himself. Isn't he supposed to be everywhere? (Réjean Lévesque)

4085. Beauty is not caused. It is. (Emily Dickenson)

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 # 415

2012-12-02T11:54:00.000-05:00

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

4066. The cage is no more free than the bird. (Zen saying via Coyote Sings)

4067. Thoughts have no Sunday. (Kiah)

4068. Remorse is a second mistake; once the chicken has laid its egg, it's too late to squeeze its buttocks. (Gustave Parking)

4069. For a purely untrustworthy human organ, the memory is right in there with the penis. (P.J. O'Rourke)

4070. The difference between the rich and the poor? The poor sell drugs so they can buy Nikes and the rich sell Nikes so they can buy drugs. (Frédéric Beigbeder)

4071. A tear balanced on an eyelash
Grief hesitating. (madeleinebleue)

4072. Sand is both the problem and the solution for the beach. (Dean Young)

4073. Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. (Yiddish proverb)

4074. ".666" - The number of the Millibeast. (Randy Goldstein)

4075. You never get what you are worth. You get what you negotiate. (Jemis)

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