tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113691792024-03-17T12:18:21.431-04:00The FrictionaryA collection of quotations (clever, irreverent, witty, thought-provoking, poetic, stupid, etc).Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.comBlogger1002125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-43538799932856455642024-03-17T12:16:00.003-04:002024-03-17T12:17:21.273-04:00The Frictionary # 1039<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9926. Happiness is an abstract word composed of some ideas of pleasure. (Voltaire)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9927. The only cure for grief is to grieve. (Earl Grollman)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9928. If God is really everywhere, how do you explain Trump? Is He in his pants? (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9929. All of those ideas about the future are actually made of memories. (David Cain)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9930. Greed is a sin that pays off. (Paul Morand)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9931. The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. Frederic Lawrence Knowles)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9932. Every apple is a flower that has known love. (Félix Leclerc)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9933. I'm looking for love, but I'll settle for peanut butter. (Victoria Roberts)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9934. We know where you live...(USPS). (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9935. If the experience was useful, after a while, we would stop getting the cold!</span></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-1906881201929945372024-03-10T13:16:00.001-04:002024-03-10T13:16:11.384-04:00The Frictionary # 1038<p>Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>: </p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9916. Young, we think of death without waiting for it; old, we wait for it without thinking. (Maurice Chapelan)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9917. Men(...). Unable to make babies they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. (Lucy Ellmann)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9918. Advertising cannot be objective. That is not its job. It always carries a superlative. (Jean-Jacques Stréliski)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9919. The most fantastical and unbelievable thing in The Lord of the Rings is that Legolas never stops at the arrow store once to refill. (Pat Tobin</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9920. The seed hidden in the heart of the apple is an invisible orchard. (Welsh proverb)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9921. There is never enough time, unless you're serving it. (Malcolm S. Forbes)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9922. You will never get any more out of life than you expect. (Bruce Lee)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9923. The unconscious takes revenge at night. (Louis Scutenaire)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9924. If we are made in God's image...shouldn't we be invisible? (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9925. Kids don't leave school because we didn't give them enough facts, but because they didn't find any meaning in them. (Gertrude Moskowitz)</span></p><p><span>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!</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma;"></span>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-25056775990970545292024-03-03T10:40:00.001-05:002024-03-03T10:40:22.120-05:00The Frictionary # 1037<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9906. If you are against freedom of speech, you should not be allowed to say it. (Julien Tremblay)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9907. Being a parent is the only job you can <u>accidentally</u> apply for. (Phil Hanley]</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9908. It's so much easier to hate and be certain than to sing and be moved. (David Oates)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9909. Philosophy is like Russia: full of swamps, and often invaded by the Germans. (Roger Nimier)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9910. Sleep is death without the responsibility. (Fran Lebowitz)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9911. Mimes wear gloves so they won't smudge the glass box. (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9912. The older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love that you need. (Leonard Cohen)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9913. There is much beauty in the things we do not control. (Marc Séguin)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9914. I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish. (Lefty Gomez)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9915. We dream of immortality because we are creatures made of loss. (Maria Popova)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-42720765602947183362024-02-25T11:38:00.006-05:002024-02-25T11:38:52.174-05:00The Frictionary # 1036<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9896. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. (Agnes Moorehead)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9897. If the ability to speak many languages is an asset, the ability to shut up is priceless. (Jean Gabin)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9898. For what are stars but asterisks to point a human life. (Emily Dickinson)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9899. Politicians grow on human manure. (Francis Picabia)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9900. If God is really everywhere, there is no place he can go. (Réjean Lévesque paraphrasing Michel Lauzière)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9901. The only power an actor has is his ability to say "No.". (Lou Diamond Phillips)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9902. My kids have to go to school so I can love them again. (Post-pandemic note). (Derek Séguin)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9903. I think the continents drifted apart because of Australia. (Roman Frayssinet)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9904. Kids into sports means parents and transport. [?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9905. Life is unfair. Politics is worse. (Rick Mercer)</span>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!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-6971324892427751352024-02-18T11:05:00.001-05:002024-02-18T11:05:11.445-05:00The Frictionary # 1035<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9886. You can't learn from mistakes if, in your view, you haven't made any. (Mardy Grothe)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9887. It is very easy to write about your remembrances when you have a bad memory. (Arthur Schnitzler)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9888. Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9889. The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. (Søren Kierkegaard)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9890. A pessimist is a man who has worked for three months with an optimist. (Robert Beauvais)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9891. The USA is the number one reality show in Canada. (Alonzo Bodden)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9892. Beauty is a sport where off-sides are frequent. (Frédéric Beigbeder)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9893. There's never a line for the men's room. The Lord works in misogynous ways. (Mike Baldwin "Cornered")</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9894. God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9895. Pain passes, beauty remains. (Auguste Renoir)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-47979458321372985122024-02-11T11:54:00.001-05:002024-02-11T11:54:31.309-05:00The Frictionary # 1034 <p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9876. Nobility is the mystic property of the seminal liquid. (Paul Valéry)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9877. I finally got my life going in the right direction but I was in the wrong lane. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9878. Fashion is the worst prostitute. (Madeleine Ferron)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9879. There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. (Fran Lebowitz)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9880. If violence doesn't solve your problem, it's because you don't hit hard enough. (Pierre Desproges)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9881. Alone is a fact, a condition where there no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that. (Twyla Tharp)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9882. The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. (Louis de Bernières)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9883. Marriage and macaroni are good only when hot. (Italian proverb)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9884. </span><span style="color: #800180;">Jacuzzi: Bath that allows you to fart incognito. (Michel Lauzière)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9885. A pessimist is never disappointed. (Maurice Chapelan)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma;"></span><br /><p><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-26210734779177265332024-02-04T11:53:00.005-05:002024-02-04T11:53:48.482-05:00The Frictionary # 1033<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9866. A blind obedience presupposes an extreme ignorance. (Jean-Paul Marat)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9867. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough. (Oprah Winfrey)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9868. We tend to classify species linearly, from insect to fish to reptile to bird up to mammal, with Ron DeSantis at the top. (Yves Boisvert)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9869. Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. (Woody Allen)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9870. Mohammed said, "Being naked is not improper". As long as you put clothes over it. (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9871. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? (...) Most likely some fowl play happened. (Anu Garg)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9872. I am pessimistic by intelligence. Optimistic by will. (Antonio Gramsci)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9873. Relatives are the one thing Amazon can't deliver. (Stephen King)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9874. When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9875. People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them. (Arundhati Roy)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-71441717552319504402024-01-28T12:35:00.000-05:002024-01-28T12:35:15.998-05:00The Frictionary # 1032<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9856. To understand is not to forgive. It is simply better than the alternative, which is not to understand. (Alec Nove)</span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9857. Strange that we give the most beautiful dogs to the blind, we should give them the ugliest. (Michelle Desrochers)</span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9858. If God had meant to everything to happen at once, he would not have invented desk calendars. (Fran Lebowitz)</span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9859. Marriage is a meal that starts with the dessert. Jules Sandeau)</span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9860. The surest sign of age is loneliness. (Amos Bronson Alcott) </span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9861. Only one who is aware of his cage can get out. (Laetitia Lemoine)</span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9862. Perhaps God is the name we give to wonders beyond why. (Maria Popova) </span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9863. To see the light at the end of the tunnel, you need a tunnel. (Jean-Sébastien Lozeau)</span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9864. He who does not read is condemned to believe others. (Jorge Luis Borges attr.)</span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;">9865. The brain may take advice, but not the heart. (Truman Capote)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-47082740086795630562024-01-21T12:09:00.004-05:002024-01-21T12:09:44.914-05:00The Frictionary # 1031<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9846. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution. (Oscar Wilde)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9847. Dreams are the literature of sleep. Even the weirdest deal with memories. (Jean Cocteau)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9848. I wish Taylor Swift was in love with a climate scientist. (Katja Herbers)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9849. If you study the anatomy of despair, you will find, someplace, hope. (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9850. Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. (Fanny Hurst)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9851. Man is a monkey with car keys."Dans une galaxie près de chez vous" (Claude Legault & Pierre-Yves Bernard)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9852. Revenge involves desire. (William Goldman)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9853. Nothingness is the universe without me. (André Suarès)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9854. The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">9855. Twitter is a way to expose your subconscious to the world. (Kyle Chayka)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-24090931722087801892024-01-14T13:13:00.004-05:002024-01-14T13:13:40.720-05:00The Frictionary # 1030<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9836. How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? (François de La Rochefoucauld)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9837. Hope is not a plan, but without it nothing else is a plan, either. (Robert Brault)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9838. My banker told me that in order to cover my deficit I would have to make sacrifices. I waver between a goat and a chicken. (Laetitia Castwa)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9839. Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. (William Beveridge)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9840. We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within. (Rumi)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9841. Never never get involved with someone who wants to change you. (Quentin Crisp)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9842. The enemy of difference is indifference. (Stéphane Laporte)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9843. Tears only ever serve the past. (Suzanne Palmer)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9844. If I erased the mistakes of my past/ I would erase the wisdom of my present. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;">9845. Tattoos: Regrets written under the skin, it always hurts. (Hugo Dumas)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-22899930411097171512024-01-07T11:38:00.011-05:002024-01-19T22:47:58.017-05:00The Frictionary # 1029<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9826. It's said that you only get one life. In truth, you only get one birth and one death. How many lives you squeeze in is up to you. (Robert Brault) </span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9827. If someone hits you on the left cheek. take karate lessons. (Quino)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9828. The night sky now is both/ a starry spray of mother's milk/ and points of light as bright as your last kiss. (Jim Culleny)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9829. Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable. (Amin Maalouf)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9830. Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. (Francis Bacon)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9831. Intelligence is not what we know but what we do when we don’t know. (Jean Piaget)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9832. A muffin is a bald cupcake. (Jim Gaffigan)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9833. If there is another life after life, I would like someone to explain to me what is the point of dying? (Philippe Geluck)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9834. Never make snow angels in a dog park. ?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9835. Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. (W.E.B. DuBois)* </span>There is a definite possibility that the second might be true.</p><p>That's all for this edition of The Frictionary. Your comments and suggestions are welcome, but commercial links will be rejected. 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<span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma;"></span><br />Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-4778212392605843192023-12-31T14:47:00.002-05:002023-12-31T14:47:46.062-05:00The Frictionary # 1028<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9816. How strange these days when the joy of living is programmed in calendars. (Marc Lévy)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9817. Let's stop talking politics to each other. We used to have no idea how much we hated each other, and it worked. (Bill Maher)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9818. Any form of contempt, if it intervenes in politics, prepares or establishes fascism. (Albert Camus)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9819. There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. (Josh Billings)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9820. Whoever has succeeded in discerning good from evil has already lost his innocence. (Charles Nodier)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9821. If you say you love Christmas music, all I hear is "I've never worked retail.". (Brandy Jensen)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9822. Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. (Paul Tournier)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9823. </span><span style="color: #990000;">There is no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.(M</span><span style="color: #990000;">alcolm S. Forbes)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9824. </span><span style="color: #990000;">If you usually hit on things that don't work, you are probably not ready to have children. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9825. Revenge is a dish that is eaten cold. But, it's even better warmed up. (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p>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! Happy New Year 2024!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-41128022436066895402023-12-24T11:56:00.003-05:002023-12-24T11:56:23.076-05:00The Frictionary # 1027<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9806. Violence on television makes you want to break everything. Except, alas, the television. (Philippe Geluck)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9807. At my age, flowers scare me. (George Burns)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9808. Nothing is more embarrassing than the facts: they prevent us from believing what we want. (Claude Roy)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9809. Distant stars swing close/ the moon rests its swollen cheek/ on our long dark hill. (Catherine Baker)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9810. It takes the whole of life to learn how to live and [...) it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. (Seneca)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9811. End discrimination. Hate everybody. (Elle Eden "Bribes Institution")</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9812. Women are like Spanish houses which have many doors and few windows. It is easier to penetrate them than to see in them. (Jean Paul Richter)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9813. The only thing to find is you. Everything else is on Google. (Brahmadev)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9814. God's last name is not "Dammit". (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9815. Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. (H.L. Mencken)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-5852857861925884602023-12-17T12:14:00.003-05:002023-12-17T12:14:31.544-05:00The Frictionary # 1026<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9796. After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works. (Gwen Stefani)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9797. Memory is the only way to stop the slide of time. Without stopping it so much. (Christine Orban)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9798. When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly. (Roger Zelazny)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9799. Binoculars: Field glasses to see things as if they were close, provided they are far enough away. (Michel Lauzière)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9800. Time is the only thief we can't get justice against. (Astrid Alauda)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9801. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he wouldn't exist. (Jules Renard)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9802. Twitter poll: "I'd be okay with living under a dictatorship. ○ yes ○ yes. (Emo Philips)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9803. Shyness is a terrible defect, it masks all your qualities. (Patrick Timsit)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9804. Never buy a book from IKEA. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9805. Love is a given, hatred is acquired. (Doug Horton)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-15185884225804284702023-12-10T15:01:00.005-05:002023-12-10T15:01:33.405-05:00The Frictionary # 1025<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9786. There are no insoluble problems, there are only unpleasant solutions. (Alexandra Marinina)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9787. There are no words/ that make the sound/ the rusty hinge/ of the door that opens/ between worlds. (Kathabela Wilson)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9788. There is such a thing as truth. Except when it resides only in words, it is only a misleading peroration. (Michel Leclerc)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9789. Well-behaved women seldom make history. (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9790. Materialist: Individual who has more things than us. (Michel Lauzière)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9791. Do you like yelling "What?". Get married. (Lindsay Golhvert)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9792. When the wind blows, ALL the trees shake. (Algerian proverb)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9793. Being a God is one of the oldest professions in the world. (Roger Zelazny)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9794. My life is an open book. But it's very poorly written and I die at the end. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9795. The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. (Adolf Hitler)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-67347957252261989662023-12-03T12:24:00.002-05:002023-12-03T12:24:31.341-05:00The Frictionary # 1024<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9776. You don't need a night cream. Ingredients do not know the time of day. (Fayne L. Frey)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9777. Why do we have fewer friends as we grow older? Because they die. (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9778. You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectations. (Bette Davis)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9779. To what shall I liken this world?/ moonlight reflected in the dewdrops/ shaken from a crane's bill. (Dôgen)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9780. Education is the only vaccine for violence. (Edward James Olmos)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9781. Writing History is to mess with Geography. (Daniel Pennac)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9782. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. (Margaret Mead)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9783. Just because we don’t talk doesn’t mean we want to listen to other people. (Philippe Geluck)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9784. People who can't communicate think everything is an argument. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9785. Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter. (Nadine Gordimer)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-73563380265624868502023-11-26T12:41:00.001-05:002023-11-26T12:41:18.244-05:00The Frictionary # 1023<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9766. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. (Albert Einstein)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9767. Punctuation is not spelling, it is thought. (Alexandre Vialatte)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9768. A flower is a weed with an advertising budget. (Rory Sutherland)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9769. How slow is life/ And how violent is Hope. (Guillaume Apollinaire)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9770. Always obey your parents, when they are present. (Mark Twain)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9771. Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference. (Marcus Aurelius)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9772. Being alive in a sea/ without a single sail/ in sight. (Ko Un)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9773. My parents never took me camping. You know why? Because they loved me. (Jim Gaffigan)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9774. Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetics. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9775. The best thing to do is to do your best. (René Barjavel)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-22884506176235611622023-11-19T11:45:00.000-05:002023-11-19T11:45:07.629-05:00THe Frictionary # 1022<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9756. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. (Gore Vidal)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9757. Along a moonlit river/ our thoughts moving/ with the water. (Etsujin)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9758. There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. (Joseph Addison)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9759. Funny, but to live consists in making future memories. (Ernesto Sábato)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9760. It's embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other. (Aldous Huxley)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9761. When I have nothing to say, I want people to know. (Raymond Devos)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9762. An optimist looks forward to marriage. A pessimist is a married optimist. (Milton Berle)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9763. Fish live in water, the brain lives in dreams. (Jean Barbe)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9764. To consider faith as a virtue is a laissez-passé to ignorance. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">9765. The present is the point at which time touches eternity. (C.S. Lewis)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-85613192662066581062023-11-12T11:24:00.003-05:002023-11-12T11:47:56.506-05:00The Frictionary # 1021 <p><a href="<div align='center'><a href='https://www.free-website-hit-counter.com'><img src='https://www.free-website-hit-counter.com/c.php?d=9&id=158696&s=5' border='0' alt='Free Website Hit Counter'></a><br / ><small><a href='https://www.free-website-hit-counter.com' title="Free Website Hit Counter">Free website hit counter</a></small></div>"><div align='center'><a href='https://www.free-website-hit-counter.com'><img src='https://www.free-website-hit-counter.com/c.php?d=9&id=158696&s=5' border='0' alt='Free Website Hit Counter'></a><br / ><small><a href='https://www.free-website-hit-counter.com' title="Free Website Hit Counter">Free website hit counter</a></small></div></a> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9746. To invent is to discern, to choose. (Henri Poincaré)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9747. It is said that "power corrupts", but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. (David Brin)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9748. Gaiety is the most amiable form of courage. (Anatole France)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9749. I was born by cesarean section, but you can't really tell. Except that when I leave my house, I always go out the window. (Steven Wright)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9750. Consumer society is solitude wrapped in belongings. (Jacques Folch-Ribas)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9751. Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. (Wilt Chamberlain)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9752. Hope: The spare wheel of will. (Michel Lauzière)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9753. </b></span><b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;">Do what you will/ This Life's a Fiction/ And is made up of Contradiction.</b><b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"> (William Blake)</b></p><p><b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;">9754. </b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>If God is a catholic, how come he had only one son. (?)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b>9755. No man is a prophet in his own country, but that's no reason for shutting up. (François Cavanna) </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>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!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><div><b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><p><br /></p><p><b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-40572718936453264112023-11-05T10:52:00.000-05:002023-11-05T10:52:11.603-05:00The Frictionary # 1020<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9736. The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. (Alexander Fleming)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9737. A child upon seeing a grand mosque exclaimed/ God just one of you and such a big house. (Nida Fazli)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9738. Tradition is such a glorified word for habit. (Coyote Sings)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9739. To be moved is to breathe with your heart. (Pierre Reverdy)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9740. Life continues whether you pay attention to it or not. I think that's why the passage of time is so scary. (Cory Muscara)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9741. Dogs? The most stupid of animals. They trust humans. (Christian Vanasse)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9742. All children are atheists, they have no idea of God. (Paul Thiry d'Holbach)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9743. Nature loves variety, even though society hates it. (Milton Diamond)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9744. Some say that the Bible is the truth because it says so in the Bible. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #783f04;">9745. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-74945941645375820692023-10-29T10:23:00.000-04:002023-10-29T10:23:07.159-04:00The Frictionary # 1019<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9726. Words pale and lose their flavor while pain is always new. (Cormac McCarthy)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9727. The question is no longer to remake the world, but to prevent it from coming apart. (Albert Camus)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9728. There's so many things I should be doing that when I procrastinate, I'm multitasking. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9729. When you think about it, there is as much natural stupidity as artificial intelligence. (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9730. Play is the ultimate expression of freedom for its own sake. (David Graeber)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9731. More French than baguette, the exclamation mark. (Pierre Foglia)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9732. M&Ms: bits of chocolate shaped like Advils. (Jim Gaffigan)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9733. The difference between cults and religions? The size of the congregation. (Satz)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9734. Mary had a little lamb/ its fleece was white as snow/ but now, it's a big ram/ with the great big balls to go. (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;">9735. Noise never heard the silence. (madeleinebleue)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-46795382282192759062023-10-22T11:12:00.007-04:002023-11-19T10:34:27.309-05:00The Frictionary # 1018<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9716. There are really many people that read only to be exempted from thinking. (G.C. Lichtenberg)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9717. We spend our whole lives recovering from high school. (Paula Danziger)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9718. Jokingly, we can say everything, even the truth. (Sigmund Freud)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9719. Technically, you're not a weed if somebody wants you. (Mark Parisi "Off the Mark")</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9720. If women were good, God would have one. (Sacha Guitry)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9721. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. (John Steinbeck)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9722. Peace is a trench/ a pile of ashes scattered/ over the improbable. (Benoît Pinette "Tire le Coyote")</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9723. By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. (Phyllis Diller)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9724. Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47;">9725. The lie is stronger than the truth, because it fills the expectation. (Hannah Arendt)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-4079817299084215632023-10-15T10:45:00.001-04:002023-10-15T10:45:09.107-04:00The Frictionary # 1017<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9706. If the city was a body, graffiti would tell us where it hurts. (Charles "Chaz" Bojôrquez)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9707. The real challenge in journalism is to tell ALL the truth. (Denise Bombardier)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9708. Your mind is just a canvas: your life-projected film. Your skull is a museum of memories: your ego a neurotic guard. (Mike Lazarev "Headphone Commute")</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9709, Bad people envy and hate; that is how they admire. (Victor Hugo)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9710. Real loss is possible when you love something more than you love yourself. [From the movie "Good Will Hunting", written by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9711. Politics is a bloodless war and war is bloody politics. (Mao Zedong)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9712. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. (Muhammed Ali)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9713. When we think about it, Christianity has an apple as its basis. (Gustave Flaubert)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9714. An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;">9715. Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. (Ben Hecht)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-26206339104015773682023-10-08T12:49:00.001-04:002023-10-08T12:49:15.899-04:00The Frictionary # 1016<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9696. Silence is a friend who never betrays. (Confucius)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9697. Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal. (Ken Liu)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9698. You're never better served than by yourself. I deserve a tip. (Réjean Lévesque)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9699. A contract is a list of all the ways two people don't trust each other. (David Gerrold)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9700. Why do we have fewer friends as we grow older? Because we choose them. (Patrick Huard)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9701. Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal. (T.S. Eliot)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9702. Chihuahua: wallet that barks. (P.A. Méthot)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9703. We hope. We despair. We hope. We despair. That is what governs us. (Maira Kalman)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9704. Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth - Communism is the equal distribution of poverty. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">9705. When you say you love God what does it mean? It means that you love a projection of your imagination, (...) When you worship God you are worshipping yourself. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369179.post-49309077886579667372023-10-01T11:00:00.002-04:002023-10-01T11:00:37.298-04:00The Frictionary # 1015<p> Here is another page taken from <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Frictionary</b></span>:</p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9686. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. (Dinah Craik)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9687. There is no urgent problem in politics that a lack of decision can solve. (Henri Queuille)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9688. Children give life to the concept of immaturity. (Fran Lebowitz)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9689. Reality sometimes is the rubber band snapping back to its original shape. (Marc Séguin)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9690. You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R. (Dennis Miller)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9691. The passenger's point of view. He believes the view passes by when in fact he is the one who does. (Stéphane Laporte)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9692. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. (Doug Larson)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9693. Bible: The only book revered by so many people who haven't read it. (Michel Lauzière)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9694. The most dangerous potential side effect of depression is poetry. (?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #134f5c;">9695. Maps are/ a kind of poem/ a metaphor of terrain. (Positively Wyrde)</span></p><p>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!</p><p><br /></p>Rejeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07297898698215003764noreply@blogger.com0