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The Frictionary # 374

2012-02-19T11:17:00.003-05:00

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3656. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. (Joseph Hall)

3657. When your river of life falls into the ocean of life, in that moment of meeting there is peace. (Osho)

3658. Bad taste in architects brings fortune to decorators. (Bertrand Vac)

3659. Crime does not pay...enough. (Clayton Rawson)

3660. My blood type is Very Negative. (Richard Lewis)

3661. The eye you see is not
an eye because you see it.
It is an eye because it sees you. (Antonio Machado)

3662. Lucy is said to be three million years old. Being a woman, she would probably say two...(Réjean Lévesque)

3663. Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff. (Will Rogers)

3664. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. (Delos B. McKown)

3665. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof. (Robert Lowell)

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The Frictionary # 373

2012-02-12T11:32:00.003-05:00

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3646. A rut is a grave with no ends. (Alan Lampkin)

3647. I would never do crack...I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass. (Denis Leary)

3648. Anarchy is the victory of the mind over certainty. (Georges Henein)

3649. Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. (Doug Coupland)

3650. Two leaves
jealous wind
one leaf. (Coyote Sings)

3651. All anxiety starts with a desire. (David Cain)

3652. Wine is water filled with sunlight. (Galileo)

3653. It's alright to break the silence, but has someone thought about having it repaired? (Réjean Lévesque)

3654. If you educate a girl, you educate a nation. (Esther Muthoni)

3655. I started out with nothing. I still have most of it. (Michael Davis)

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The Frictionary # 372

2012-02-05T11:07:00.003-05:00

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3636. Acceptance is the only way to stay conscious. Action without acceptance is unconscious. (David Cain)

3637. If you see the bandwagon, you've missed it. (James Phillips)

3638. Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. (Heinrich Heine)

3639. When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. (Edward Abbey)

3640. Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses. (Henri Matisse)

3641. That's the point of quotations, you know: you can use another's words to be insulting.(Amanda Cross)

3642. It is now proven, contact with human brains makes telephones less intelligent. (Stéphane Laporte)

3643. I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in. (Dan Fouts)

3644. You want to keep your carpet clean? Roll it up and store it in a cool dry place. (Réjean Lévesque)

3645. Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls and we push it with our feet when it stops. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)

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The Frictionary # 371

2012-01-29T10:52:00.003-05:00

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3626. The more specific you are, the more general it will be. (Diane Arbus)

3627. To understand everything is to forgive everything. (Buddha)

3628. The Coran mentions that " He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh." This, apparently, does not apply to caricatures of the Prophet. (Réjean Lévesque)

3629. If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. (Dave Barry)

3630. Guilt is never to be doubted. (Franz Kafka)

3631. To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. (W.H. Auden)

3632. The cell phone is modern man's leash. (Stéphane Laporte)

3633. Fingernails are CREEPY. They're actually little windows to the inside of your fingers. (Lucy Ellmann)

3634. Alcohol doesn't solve any problem, but neither does milk. (?)

3635. Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. (William Penn)

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The Frictionary # 370

2012-01-22T11:06:00.003-05:00

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3616. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow)

3617. One only needs two tools in life: WD40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. (G. Weilacher)

3618. Moon is in its first quarter, but still hasn't scored. (Réjean Lévesque)

3619. I love hearts
They're made of meat.
Poets must die so I can eat. (Derek Thomas)

3620. A woman is a woman, she knows what she's worth and doesn't know what she wants. (Roch Carrier)

3621. Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. (Nicholas Ling)

3622. If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

3623. In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. (Jose Simon)

3624. Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. (Charles Dickens)

3625. When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not an agnostic, I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me. (George Carlin)

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The Frictionary # 369

2012-01-15T11:56:00.003-05:00

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3606. When Time is spent, Eternity begins. (Helen Hunt Jackson)

3607. I got a Wii Fit 'cause I'm Wii Fat. (Darcy Michael)

3608. What destroys the world is
Indifference. (Maurice Vidalin)

3609. Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. (Douglas William Jerold)

3610. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. (Khalil Gibran)

3611. The Mountain Syndrome: when you're on it, you don't see it. (Pierre Foglia)

3612. Taking the fast lane on the highway of life just gets you to the exit ramp sooner. (Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest))

3613. A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. (German proverb)

3614. Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals. (Steven Colbert)

3615. The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. (Malcolm de Chazal)

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The Frictionary # 368

2012-01-08T11:03:00.003-05:00

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3596. Wit is like money: we generally have it at other people's expense. (Claude Roy)

3597. People who love peeholes
are the most wonderful people in the world. ("Two and a Half Men")

3598. What is the dream that is worth more than reality? To dream of being married. (Diane de Beausacq)

3599. The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. (Wayne W. Dyer)

3600. Mexico: Afghanistan with margaritas. (Ron James)

3601. Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. (Euripides)

3602. Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. (Victor Hugo)

3603. The only people who should really sin
Are the people who can sin and grin. (Ogden Nash)

3604. Hell is not punishment, neither is heaven reward, it is consequence. (Onwuka Emeka)

3605. There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. (Jerry Seinfeld)

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The Frictionary # 367

2012-01-01T11:24:00.002-05:00

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3586. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. (Otto Rank)

3587. Imagine if nobody regarded anybody as a stranger, but instead just a person they didn't know. (David Cain)

3588. If you want to earn a living, all you have to do is work. If you want to become rich, you must find something else. (Alphonse Karr)

3589. The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. (Zen saying)

3590. No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. (Lily Tomlin)

3591. Just as pearls are the product of irritation, satirists are grains of sand in our oysters. (Réjean Lévesque)

3592. Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. (Benny Hill)

3593. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it. (Robert Orben)

3594. If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

3595. Yes is the only living thing. (E.E. Cummings)

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The Frictionary # 366

2011-12-25T11:34:00.003-05:00

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3576. Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting. (Robert Frost)

3577. Without imagination, love doesn't stand a chance. (Romain Gary)

3578. Every time I find out the meaning of life, they change it. (Debbie Winkler Estes)

3579. A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer. (Mitch Hedberg)

3580. Mistletoe: the only time of year they made sexual harassment acceptable. (Russell Peters)

3581. Sundial
I stand in the shadow
of time. (Coyote Sings)

3582. I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. (George Bernard Shaw)

3583. Rapper's Christmas song: "Jingle Bitch". (Sylvain Larocque)

3584. There are four stages in a man's life: 1) he believes in Santa; 2) he doesn't believe in Santa; 3) he is Santa; 4) he looks like Santa. (?)

3585. Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. (Samuel Johnson)

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The Frictionary # 365

2011-12-18T11:19:00.004-05:00

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3566. The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. (Tom Bodett)

3567. God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.* (Empedocles)
* Blaise Pascal had the same observation but replaced "God" by "Nature".

3568. I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. (Billy Joel)

3569. Astronomers must be the luckiest people in the world; they have so many stars to wish upon. (Réjean Lévesque)

3570. A wink is a pose, a pose is a mask, and a mask is a forgery. (Stephen Thompson)

3571. Alas for those who never sing
But die with all their music in them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

3572. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. (Steve Martin)

3573. Exaggeration is the honest man"s lie. (Joseph de Maistre)

3574. Logic is the anatomy of thought. (John Locke)

3575. It is alright to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. (Richard Armour)

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The Frictionary # 364

2011-12-11T11:32:00.003-05:00

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3556. Negating God is to deny yourself the only interest presented by death. (Sacha Guitry)

3557. We are gods with anuses. (Ernest Becker)

3558. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. (Frederick the Great of Prussia)

3559. Outside the gallery
a sunset hangs
unsigned. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3560. Woman is a flower that gives its perfume only in the shade. (Félicité de Lamennais)

3561. Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. (Bernard Berenson)

3562. Know that the Internet has no eraser. (Liz Strauss)

3563. What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)

3564. Space is the corpse of time.* (Zebulon Pike)
*Title of CD by Zebulon Pike (the band).

3565. In my house, I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. (Woody Allen)

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The Frictionary # 363

2011-12-04T11:22:00.003-05:00

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3546. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long,
Has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. (Richard Armour)

3547. Belief is a wonderful thing for those who need it. (Terry Pratchett)

3548. Progress doesn't always bring you what you want. Because what you want is always what you know. (Stéphane Laporte)

3549. Man plans and God laughs. (Yiddish proverb)

3550. Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life - except religion. (Christopher Hitchens)

3551. Never say bad things about the illiterate. Better write them down. (Walter)

3552. The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity. (George Orwell)

3553. Appromimately 99% of ITunes revenues come from drunk people after 11 PM. (Andy Borowitz)

3554. The future belongs to those who get up early, especially in the morning. (?)

3555. When you have faith, you can do without the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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The Frictionary #362

2011-11-27T11:30:00.003-05:00

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3536. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. (John Wooden)

3537. The only person who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. (Bob Hill)

3538. Justice is injustice shared equitably. (Maurice Chapelan)

3539. We are the world.* (Friedrich Dürenmatt)
* In your face Michael Jackson!

3540. Frustration is a form of anger that doesn't understand why it's angry. (Coyote Sings)

3541. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. (Socrates)

3542. The best response to fear is curiosity. (David Cain)

3543. Will cannot do anything without hope. Love without hope becomes a dead thing. (Alain Grandbois)

3544. Every book is a children's book if the kid can read. (Mitch Hedberg)

3544. A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. (Mort Sahl)

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The Frictionary # 361

2011-11-20T11:34:00.003-05:00

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3526. The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. (John Lyly)

3527. The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. (Peter De Vries)

3528. The more you love, the more unfair you become. (Hubert Aquin)

3529. Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. (Samuel Johnson)

3530. Time is not a line, but a series of now points. (Taisen Dashimaru)

3531. Compassion is a voluntary sensitivity to the internal experience of another. (David Cain)

3532. Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. (Victor Hugo)

3533. Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. (Denis Leary)

3534. Facebook: the only place where you can talk to a wall and not be ridiculous. (?)

3535. Truth is a pathless land. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

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The Frictionary # 360

2011-11-13T12:02:00.003-05:00

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3516. Doubt is the beginning, not the end of wisdom. (George Iles)

3517. Despair is the only genuine atheism. (Jean Paul)

3518. It's not because many are wrong that they're right. (Coluche)

3519. - even from the black eye of a black hole
a crumb of light is tossed
and the chance of seeing you again
is not forever lost. (Jim Culleny)

3520. Life is the dancer and you are the dance. (Eckhart Tolle)

3521. Choosing is life; only death of body or mind will put an end to it. (Réjean Lévesque)

3522. I only regret that I have but one liver to give for my country. (Fred Chapin)

3523. Hope is the raw material of losers. (Fernando Flores)

3524. To my embarassment I was born in bed with a lady. (Wilson Mizner)

3525. Sudoku was invented for the illeterate who love crossword puzzles. (Walter)

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The Frictionary # 359

2011-11-06T12:21:00.003-05:00

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3506. We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self. (Cyril Connolly)

3507. Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? (Doug Coupland)

3508. To demonstrate that a thing is rational does not always prove that it is reasonable. (Gustave Le Bon)

3509. Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. (Denis Leary)

3510. When you become senile, you won't know it. (Bill Cosby)

3511. It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt. (Ikkaku, Hosaka & Kawabata)

3512. "Shit' is the tofu of cursing. (David Sedaris)

3513. A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. (Leo Tolstoy)

3514. The snake changes his skin but keeps his nature. (French proverb)

3515. There are two types of space: a) something containing nothing and b) nothing containing everything. (Terry Pratchett)

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The Frictionary # 358

2011-10-30T14:41:00.003-04:00

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3496. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. (Rabindranath Tagore)

3497. I grab hope's tail
forgetting to watch out
for his teeth. (Coyote Sings)

3498. As women understand less and less, they believe themselves to be more and more misunderstood. (Étienne Rey)

3499. You own a dog; you feed a cat. (Jim Fiebig)

3500. The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong, but being certain. (Terry Pratchett)

3501. Philosophy is the art of putting up with other people's misfortunes. (Diane de Beausacq)

3502. Scientists are peeping toms at the key hole of eternity. (Arthur Koestler)

3503. When I grow up I want to be a little boy. (Joseph Heller)

3504. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. (?)

3505. Democracies only prepare for war after having declared it. (Georges Mandel)

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The Frictionary # 357

2011-10-23T11:11:00.003-04:00

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3486. One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. (Arthur C. Clarke)

3487. What's best in Sunday is still Saturday night. (Gilbert Cesbron)

3488. The rich never have to seek out their relatives. (Italian proverb)

3489. Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. (Al Boliska)

3490. True, human beings are equal, but the individuals are not. (Alexis Carrel)

3491. Pain always wins, eventually. (David Epstein)

3492. Time is like people, the more it gets old, the more it shrinks. (Réjean Lévesque)

3493. Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system. (P.J. O'Rourke)

3494. Cat
teaches me
that love is not always apparent. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3495. Those who know the least obey the more. (George Farquhar)

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The Frictionary # 356

2011-10-16T11:37:00.004-04:00

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3476. Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off. (Phyllis Diller)

3477. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. (Bob Dylan)

3478. I have but one word, but I have a poor memory. (Marcel Achard)

3479. Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. (Erma Bombeck)

3480. Adventure without risk is Disneyland. (Doug Coupland)

3481. Man is such a fool: he who cannot make a mite yet makes gods by the dozen. (Michel de Montaigne)

3482. You are the sun
on my shadow
of a doubt. (Coyote Sings)

3483. When leaves shake, it's not the roots' business. (Wole Soyinka)

3484. Airport: A place where people hurry up and wait. (Terry Pratchett)

3485. Alcohol kills slowly. We don't give a damn, we're in no hurry. (Georges Courteline)

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The Frictionary # 355

2011-10-09T11:21:00.003-04:00

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3466. If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. (David Rockefeller)

3467. Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. (Chinese proverb)

3468. Luck exists. If not, how could we explain other people's success. (Marcel Achard)

3469. When your IQ rises to 28, sell. (Irwin Corey)

3470. Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. (Charles Caleb Colton)

3471. Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. (Doug Coupland)

3472. Reasonable people have survived, passionate people have lived. (Sébastien Chamfort)

3473. If you have nothing to say, say nothing. (Mark Twain)

3474. They say time flies, but mine's first class. (Lil Wayne)

3475. I can forgive, but I can't forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive. (Henry Ward Beecher)

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The Frictionary #354

2011-10-02T11:29:00.003-04:00

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3456. Absence of proof is not proof of absence. (William Cowper)

3457. Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. (Kin Hubbard)

3458. How terrible it is to lengthten life by prolonging only old age. (Georget Bernier (Prof Choron))

3459. We can be sordid only if we work at it. (Brooke McEldowney)

3460. Don't throw in the towel. Recycle it. (Réjean Lévesque)

3461. Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one marked "Brightness" but it doesn't work. (Gallagher)

3462. Memory, this past in the present. (François Chalais)

3463. Christopher Columbus, (...), is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. (James Joyce)

3464. The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the knob also turns to the left. (?)

3465. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. (Warren Buffet)

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The Frictionary # 353

2011-09-25T11:46:00.003-04:00

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3446. Desire often is a poor memory. (Daniel Boulanger)

3447. If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. (Robert Brault)

3448. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. (Franklin P. Jones)

3449. Political programs share something else with great literary classics: everybody talks about them, nobody has read them. (Nicolas Dickner)

3450. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. (Rabindranath Tagore)

3451. A black cat crossing your path signifies that the cat is going somewhere. (Groucho Marx)

3452. Clouds
in a puddle
raining on themselves. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3453. Writing is not a vocation but a firm desire to provoke. (Georges Raby)

3454. Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting. (Alan Dean Foster)

3455. Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. (J. Patrick Lewis)

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The Frictionary # 352

2011-09-18T14:27:00.003-04:00

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3436. To make mistakes is human, but profit by them is divine. (Elbert Hubbard)

3437. Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. (Evan Esar)

3438. Monsters have at least one purpose, that of telling us that we are not one. (Pierre Foglia)

3439. At the end of the universe, where light gives up hope and time chases its tail until it dies from exhaustion. (Christopher Moore)

3440. One thing that makes humans different from animals, is that they run toward a distress call rather than away from it. (Terry Pratchett)

3441. There is no natural selection anymore. The weak go through and the strong sleep. It's not a jungle, it's a biodome. ("Sexe Illégal")

3442. That sun! Such egocentrism. Thinks everything revolves around him. (Réjean Lévesque)

3443. People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash)

3444. Never fall in love. Try to rise in love. (Osho)

3445. Blame is for God and small children. (Dustin Hoffman)

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The Frictionary # 351

2011-09-11T11:35:00.003-04:00

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3426. Unless we remember we cannot understand. (E.M. Forster)

3427. Success is the lurking place of failure. (Lao Tzu)

3428. That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. (A. Whitney Brown)
3429. An opinion is shocking only when it's a conviction. (Rémy de Gourmont)

3430. The very essence of love is uncertainty. (Oscar Wilde)

3431. God made man in his image; the exhibitionist only pays him homage. (Jacques Prévert)

3432. Twitter
Is the tip of the iceblog
In an ocean of thought. (Keith Wilkinson)

3433. A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them. (Banksy)

3434. Chains provide warmth against the cold blast of freedom. (?)

3435. An arch never sleeps. (Indian proverb)

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The Frictionary # 350

2011-09-04T11:28:00.002-04:00

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3416. The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see. (G.K. Chesterton)

3417. Owl
Teaches me
That answers are really questions. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3418. If we are all God's children, what's so special about Jesus? (Jimmy Carr)

3419. Love is not blind, it is long-sighted. The proof is, it only begins to see the flaws when it withdraws. (Miguel Zamacoïs)

3420. Men like to save time because time is money. (Stéphane Laporte)

3421. Life is an incurable disease. (Abraham Cowley*)
* This quip has many authors, but Abraham Cowley was an English poet who died in 1667.

3422. The worst pain is in the solitude that comes with it. (André Malraux)

3423. A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping. (Kenneth Tynan)

3424. Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. (?)

3425. Loneliness is having no one to miss. (Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL))

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The Frictionary # 349

2011-08-28T11:22:00.002-04:00

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3406. The mathematics of love, (...) love does not count costs, only value. (Nick Harkaway)

3407. Ads are the foreplay of selling, the lubricant of commerce. (Patrick Lagacé)

3408. (The Netherlands), this glorified swamp. (Thom Holverda)

3409. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. (W.R. Inge)

3410. Village: first social networking site. (Réjean Lévesque)

3411. I miss the old days when we were smarter than our phones. (Wiley Miller - Non Sequitur)

3412. Vice is evil done without pleasure. (Colette)

3413. Is time long or is it wide? (?)

3414. Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind? (Robin Hobb)

3415. Man is a fish that took a wrong turn. (Stéphane Laporte)

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The Frictionary # 348

2011-08-21T11:57:00.003-04:00

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3396. The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. (John K. Galbraith)

3397. If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? (Jerry Seinfeld)

3398. I rented a movie about swimming, but there were lengths. (Frankie)

3399. To use the term 'blind faith' is to use an adjective needlessly. (Julian Ruck)

3400. Violence, whatever shape it takes, is a failure. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

3401. A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. (Clifton Fadiman)

3402. Women should be obscene and not heard. (Groucho Marx)

3403. Not many people have the courage to be cowards in front of witnesses. (Théophile Gautier)

3404. All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. (?)

3405. Silence is the mother of truth. (Benjamin Disraeli)

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The Frictionary # 347

2011-08-14T11:59:00.003-04:00

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3386. Time is the longest distance between two places. (Tennessee Williams)

3387. Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not. Humor to console him for what he is. (Bernard Werber)

3388. Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 out of the 3 last depressions. (Barry Asmus)

3389. Pardon crosses out. It does not erase. (Robert Sabatier)

3390. Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. (Elbert Hubbard)

3391. Welcome to heaven; here's your harp. Welcome to hell; here's your accordion. (Gary Larson)

3392. Happiness can only be the result of a comparison. (Eugène Beaumont)

3393. White people all have watches, but they never have the time. (African proverb)

3394. A natural death is where you die by yourself without the aid of a doctor. (Mark Twain)

3395. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. (Edmund Burke)

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The Frictionary # 346

2011-08-07T11:43:00.003-04:00

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3376. Growing old is tedious, but it's the only way we have found to live long. (Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve)

3377. When it comes to charity, a lot of people will stop at nothing. (Jimmy Carr)

3378. The sky's the limit? I don't like boundaries. (Réjean Lévesque)

3379. What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. (Mark Twain)

3380. I find that substitute teaching is the best form of birth control. (Sheri Tefft)

3381. Scratch a cynic and you'll find a disappointed romantic. (Christopher Moore)

3382. Truth is nothing to man without discovery. (Pierre Billon)

3383. Mistakes - or prototypes, as engineers call them. (James Dyson)

3384. Hell is other people's children. (?)

3385. The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he came to see. (G.K. Chesterton)

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The Frictionary # 345

2011-07-31T11:59:00.003-04:00

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3366. Humor is the best lie detector. (Konrad Lorenz)

3367. Only the one who has traveled the road knows how deep the holes are. (Chinese proverb)

3368. To work, the book doesn't need to be read but to have been read. (Nicolas Dickner)

3369. Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice. (Bill Cosby)

3370. I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. (William Gilmore Simms)

3371. You don't ask a blind man to go to the movies, you don't ask an intellectual to be honest. (Alessandro Baricco)

3372. Sound of rustling
outside
my window
I watch the night
get undressed. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3373. Only love is unselfish while marriage never is. (Francis Picabia)

3374. Marriage is like a three-ring circus...first is the engagement ring. Second is the wedding ring. Third is the suffering. (?)

3375. Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got. (Sophia Loren)

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The Frictionary # 344

2011-07-24T11:19:00.003-04:00

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3356. Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse. (P.G. Wodehouse)

3357. Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested on. (Percy Bysse Shelley)

3358. Maternity is, chronologically, the world's second oldest occupation. (Gianni Monduzzi)

3359. Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go. (B.F. Skinner)

3360. There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours more. (Woody Allen)

3361. The verb 'to live' can be parsed in all tenses, but you can only live in the present. (R.L. Bourges)

3362. I don't need time. What I need is a deadline. (Duke Ellington)

3363. When plants have sex, it's usually a 3-way with an insect. (almightygod)

3364. Even though you didn't ask, this German proverb is for you: "Never give advice unless asked." (Réjean Lévesque)

3365. In the concrete
of me
your footprint. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

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The Frictionary # 343

2011-07-17T11:11:00.003-04:00

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3346. Wasteful and pretentious spending is the de facto national religion of the United States. (Erich Vieth)

3347. Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. (Hannah More)

3348. God created the world but it is the devil that keeps it alive. (Tristan Bernard)

3349. The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. (Noel Coward)

3350. Renouncement, the heroism of mediocrity. (Natalie Clifford Barney)

3351. The economy is so bad, CEO's are now playing miniature golf. (John Wagner (Maxine))

3352. Life is a woman
Who doesn't ask you twice. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3353. Every moment is the last because it is unique. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

3354. Counterrevolution: the invention of formica. (Mason Mastroianni (B.C.))

3355. Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. (Joseph Campbell)

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The Frictionary # 342

2011-07-10T12:18:00.005-04:00

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3336. Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest. (Wilson Mizner)

3337. In Hell, the Devil is God. (Joshi Kedar)

3338. A floor is a wall that doesn't stand up straight (...), he lets people walk all over him. (André Sauvé)

3339. If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. (Sue Grafton)

3340. Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. (Terry Pratchett)

3341. Common sense is like a muscle, the less you use it the more it atrophies. (Réjean Lévesque)

3342. Seventy years or so on Earth, with unclear instructions and bad advice; infinity years in Hell for making the wrong decisions. (Sean Carroll)

3343. It is not truth that comes out of the mouth of children, it is lies. Truth has only one mouth, it is anger. (Paul Morand)

3344. My greatest fear is making pee pee when I sleep. A Bat. (?)

3345. There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. (Marie-Antoinette)

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The Frictionary # 341

2011-07-03T12:44:00.004-04:00

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3326. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half as bad as a lot of ignorance. (Terry Pratchett)

3327. Happiness, like riches, has its parasites. (Rémy de Gourmont)

3328. As a boy
I hid under the covers
And the monster hid in the closet
We are both
Braver now. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3329. Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. (P.J. O'Rourke)

3330. Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen. (Martin Mull)

3331. I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

3332. Pleasure is fools' happiness. Happiness is wise people's pleasure. (Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly)

3333. Write a wise saying and your name will live forever - Anonymous. (?)

3334. Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich. (Peter Ustinov)

3335. It is fear that builds temples. (Bertrand Vac)

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The Frictionary # 340

2011-06-26T12:00:00.004-04:00

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3316. The sky
Is just
A blueprint. (My Dreams Move Slowly)

3317. There's no rehab for stupidity. (Chris Rock)

3318. Adults don't like children of their own age. (Georges Dor)

3319. Dear Icebergs,
Sorry to hear about global warming. Karma is a bitch.
Sincerely, Titanic. (C.J. Wilson)

3320. Man is the king of all domesticated animals. I didn't say the noblest. (Réjean Lévesque)

3321. Data kills theories. (Christopher Moore)

3322. Words are only useful in the absence of things, thus making them open to all lies. (Louis Lefebvre)

3323. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? (George Deacon)

3324. I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. (?)

3325. Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. (Philip Wylie)

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The Frictionary # 339

2011-06-19T11:34:00.003-04:00

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3306. Life is the present only. The past is thoughts in the present. The future is thoughts in the present. (David Cain)

3307. A nymphomaniac is a woman as obsessed with sex as the average man. (Mignon McLaughlin)

3308. I'm sure Jesus doesn't like seing crucifixes; it brings back bad memories. (Réjean Lévesque)

3309. According to a new dating survey, 55 percent of men expect to pay on a first date. The other 45 percent have never been on a second date. (Jimmy Fallon)

3310. Thinking is the soul talking to itself. (Plato)

3311. In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart, (Ambrose Bierce)

3312. Without the willow, how could we know the beauty of the wind. (Lao She)

3313. You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. (Doug Floyd)

3314. My dog Minton swallowed a shuttlecock. Bad Minton! (?)

3315. Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. (Samuel Butler)

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The Frictionary # 338

2011-06-12T11:56:00.003-04:00

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3296. Wars aren't like kids, where you don't have to worry about the youngest because the other two will take care of it. (Jon Stewart)

3297. Whatever creativity is, it is part of a solution to a problem. (Brian Aldiss)

3298. Crime doesn't pay, neither does work. (Gilbert Senecaut)

3299. You cannot defeat death. But you can defeat your fear of death. (Shi Dejian)

3300. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. (John Fowles)

3301. I rarely use earthquakes to punish people who don't live near fault lines. (almightygod)

3302. Happiness is not for the one who looks for it, it is for the one who finds it. (Catalan proverb)

3303. To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. (Hubert H. Humphrey)

3304. Don't marry a tennisman (or tenniswoman). Love means nothing to him (her). (?)

3305. The truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake)

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The Frictionary # 337

2011-06-05T13:48:00.003-04:00

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3286. We are all born crazy. Some remain that way. (Samuel Beckett)

3287. I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. (Woody Allen)

3288. The main problem in literature is not classifying books, but classifying readers. (Nicolas Dickner)

3289. Adam, the man who slept with the first woman to come along. (Richard Desjardins)

3290. A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. (James Feibleman)

3291. The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. (Francis Bacon)

3292. Co-existence
Or no existence. (Piet Hein)

3293. If you share your money, it shrinks, but if you share your love, it grows. Ideally, you should share your love with someone who has dough. (Philippe Geluck)

3294. Mediocrity is safe. (Nikki Giovanni)

3295. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. (Steven Wright)

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The Frictionary # 336

2011-05-29T13:06:00.004-04:00

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3276. Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no soul. (Edward Coke)

3277. Nature abhors a vacuum, but not Hollywood. (Chris Honoré)

3278. All breasts are jewels. When young, they're cabochons, then they're pendants. (Sacha Guitry)

3279. Those who claim to always be right are always wrong about at least one thing. (Tala Fane)

3280. Inertia is an expression of nature's laziness. (Hans Christian Von Baeyer)

3281. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. (Rick Warren)

3282. They say drinking coffee keeps you from sleeping. On the other hand, sleeping keeps you from drinking coffee. (Philippe Geluck)

3283. Success teaches us nothing, only failure teaches. (Hyman G. Rickover)

3284. 62.15% of all statistics are meaningless. (?)

3285. Tenderness is passion's lampshade. (Pierre Bourgault)

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The Frictionary 335

2011-05-22T11:27:00.003-04:00

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3266. Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

3267. I like to use the carrot instead of the stick. It leaves a more interesting bruise. (Scott Feschuk)

3268. Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has. (Alphonse Karr)

3269. For the frienship of two, the patience of one is required. (Indian proverb)

3270. In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

3271. I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends call it. (Edgar Allen Poe)

3272. Affectionate: the adjective the owner gives to the dog humping your leg. (Réjean Lévesque)

3273. Never confuse the importance of things with the things of importance. (Mardy Grothe)

3274. I wear a necklace, 'cause I wanna know when I'm upside down. (Mitch Hedberg)

3275. You can never learn less, you can only learn more. (Buckminster Fuller)

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The Frictionary # 334

2011-05-15T11:28:00.003-04:00

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3256. Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching. (Proverb)

3257. Let's make known pedophiles wear something distinctive so kids can avoid them. Maybe a white collar. (almightygod)

3258. Love is not blind, it's short-sighted. The proof is, it only begins to see flaws when it withdraws. (Michel Zamacoïs)

3259. I make mistakes. I'll be the second to admit it. (Jean Kerr)

3260. Start every day off with a smile...and get it over with. (W.C. Fields)

3261. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when you don't drink it. (Alphonse Allais)

3262. Mystery: ignorance perpetuated as a system. (Réjean Lévesque)

3263. Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. (Marty Feldman)

3264. A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. (?)

3265. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. (Groucho Marx)

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The Frictionary # 333

2011-05-08T11:40:00.003-04:00

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3246. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. (Eleanor Roosevelt)*
* This quote is also attributed to Bill Keane and Laszlo Kotro-Kosztandi.

3247. Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. (George Burns)

3248. All religions agree in asking man and woman to go and multiply. None of them tell them how. (Jacques Folch-Ribas)

3249. Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (George Wildman Ball)

3250. Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. (Steven Wright)

3251. The turning point of the women's movement came when some guy invented the automatic transmission. (Jim Ungar ("Herman"))

3252. Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. (Jean F. Guichard)

3253. If cats could talk, they would lie to you. (Rob Kopack)

3254. It's insulting when the cat watches you when you change its litter. ("Lève-toi et marche")

3255. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. (Charles M. Schulz)

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The Frictionary # 332

2011-05-01T12:00:00.003-04:00

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3236. That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. (Emily Dickinson)

3237. The awakening of knowing, of self-realization leads to a renunciation, not of the world, but of attachment to it. (Osho)

3238. Diplomats betray everything but their emotions. (Victor Hugo)

3239. The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth. (Carl Sagan)

3240. Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. (Zhuangzi)

3241. "Your body is a temple and your congregation is too large." (via Dale Turner)

3242. Courage is fleeing to the front. (Jacques Maritain)

3243. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. (Robert Frost)

3244. Expectations are resentments under construction. (Ann Lamott)

3245. Nobody ever thought himself to death. (Gilbert Highet)

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The Frictionary # 331

2011-04-24T11:16:00.004-04:00

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3226. It is tact that is golden, not silence. (Samuel Butler)

3227. What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. (William Henry)

3228. Kindergardens, those abominable goulags of childhood. (Pierre Foglia)

3229. Scratch a dog, and you'll find a permanent job. (Franklin P. Jones)

3230. One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time a person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. (William Feather)

3231. To us, life is a door. Open or closed. In fact, life is a heart. Never completely open, never completely closed. (Stéphane Laporte)

3232. We have reconstructed the Tower of Babel and it's a television antenna. (Ted Koppel)

3233. Must Sean Penn always look like he's squeezing the last drop out of a sponge and the sponge is his face? (Dean Young)

3234. Less is more...more or less. (Dave Whamond "Reality Check")

3235. Hope is patience with the lamp lit. (Tertullian)

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The Frictionary # 330

2011-04-17T11:30:00.004-04:00

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3216. If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you. (Oscar Wilde)

3217. Our universe is 13.7 billion years old*...give or take a few weeks. (Réjean Lévesque)

*This may come as a shock to creationists.

3218. No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. (Mark Twain)

3219. As a remedy to life in society, I suggest large cities: they are the only convenient desert. (Albert Camus)

3220. When you're in love, it's the most glorious two-and-a-half days in your life. (Richard Lewis)

3221. The colours of summer

Mixed with the shouts of a child

Who is not mine... (Jocelyne Villeneuve)

3222. If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. (Mel Brooks)

3223. Working in Hollywood does give a certain expertise in the field of prostitution. (Jane Fonda)

3224.Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. (Dale Dauten)

3225. Water takes the colour and the shape of the vase that holds it. (Driss Chraïbi)

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The Frictionary # 329

2011-04-10T11:41:00.003-04:00

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3206. You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in. (Mardy Grothe)

3207. Where do bees go to wash their hands? (Réjean Lévesque)

3208. Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. (H.L. Mencken)

3209. (Mentalist): one who uses his five senses to give the impression that he has a sixth one. (Gary Kurtz)

3210. Science does not have all the answers. We just don't have all the science. (Jim Razinha)

3211. After Love (...) Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when
the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self
lay lightly down, and slept. (Maxine Kumin)

3212. Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) when in charge, ponder. (2) when in trouble, delegate. (3) when in doubt, mumble. (James H. Boren)

3213. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. (Jerome K. Jerome)

3214. My loneliness was pure until someone noticed it. (Andrew Cedermark)

3215. One can resist the invasion of armies, one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.* (Victor Hugo)
*Often paraphrased as "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

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The Frictionary # 328

2011-04-03T12:14:00.004-04:00

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.3196. Architecture is the art of how to waste space. (Philip Johnson)

3197. Life is a series of commas, not periods. (Matthew McConaughey)

3198. If all it would take to reach enlightenment would be to assume the position of the lotus, all frogs would be buddhas. (Louis Pauwels)

3199. I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long. (Mitch Hedberg)

3200. We have no scar to show for happiness. (Chuck Palahniuk)

3201. The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. (Ted Nelson)

3202. Even if we are under the impression that it stutters, time is always accelerating, (...). Think about the leash of the tethered dog turning around the stake, inevitably faster and faster because with every turn, its leash is getting shorter. (Pierre Foglia)

3203. There is no time like the pleasant. (Oliver Herford)

3204. As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. (Buddy Hackett)

3205. I will not take "but" for an answer. (Langston Hughes)

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The Frictionary # 327

2011-03-27T15:01:00.006-04:00

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3186. Don't call the world dirty because you forget to clean your glasses. (Aaron Hill)

3187. The grass isn't greener on the other side. There is no other side. The grass is green where you water it. (Ian Lawton)

3188. Women start by loving you; then, just like that, they don't love you anymore. They then say to you, "How you have changed." (Henri de Jouvenel)

3189. You cannot control things by fearing them. (Réjean Lévesque)

3190. It's not a smartphone when a pro athlete uses it. (Andy Borowitz)

3191. Diplomacy: short periods of fighting followed by long periods of negotiation. (Terry Pratchett)

3192. Giving blood is always better when it's by choice. ("Lève-toi et marche")

3193. It's hard to be modest when you live in the Milky Way. (Ken Croswell)

3194. Irritability: substitute for tobacco. (?)

3195. Love, that lamp we move around to find a new shadow. (Daniel Boulanger)

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The Frictionary # 326

2011-03-20T11:37:00.003-04:00

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3176. We don't need no gun control, we need bullet control. Bullets should cost five thousand dollars, then people would think before they killed somebody. (Chris Rock)

3177. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance. (Phyllis Diller)

3178. The art of conversation can be summarized in two words: "Ah?", "Oh!" (Nadine de Rothschild)

3179. When it melts
Ice with water
Reconciles. (Teitoku)

3180. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. (Michael Apostolius*)
*aka as Michel Apostolis.

3181. Fear is the parent of cruelty. (James Anthony Froude)

3182. You don't want to live in the past, but it is okay to visit now and again. (Mardy Grothe)

3183. It is said that the USA is a country in which religious tolerance is practiced. I think more practice is needed. (Réjean Lévesque)

3184. Smith & Wesson: the original point and click interface. (?)

3185. I don't understand the term "human race". Who are we competing against? (...) I'm betting on the cockroaches. (Joel Warshaw)

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The Frictionary # 325

2011-03-13T12:31:00.003-04:00

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3166. Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. (Margaret Atwood)

3167. People everywhere confuse what they read in the newspaper with news. (A.J. Liebling)

3168. The early bird gets the worm. I'd rather sleep in and have toaster muffins. (Shirley Lipner)

3169. The most ridiculous thing for a woman is to be a man. (Joseph M. de Maistre)

3170. Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything. (Steve Martin)

3171. Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. (Dave Barry)

3172. Seems like most rioting in the world happens in the countries with the least bacon. (Julius Sharpe)

3173. Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradictions: therefore it destroys freedom. (Albert Camus)

3174. Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget. (?)

3175. Television is a weapon of mass distraction. (Larry Gelbart)

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The Frictionary # 324

2011-03-06T11:30:00.003-05:00

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3156. That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. (Woodrow T. Wilson)

3157. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. (Rita Mae Brown)

3158. Unhappiness is not a symptom of intelligence. (David Desjardins)

3159. It ought to be plain
How little you gain
By getting excited
And vexed.
You'll always be late
For the previous train
And always on time
For the next. (Piet Hein)

3160. Imagine there's no heaven. I can. (Nasim Nicholas Taleb)

3161. One of the rarest things in this world is shared identical memories. (Réjean Lévesque)

3162. Mother Teresa: a fig wrapped in a napkin. ($#*! My Dad Says)

3163. Obama picks up his dog's poop and the Bush administration's too. (Stéphane Laporte)

3164. When two people become one, you lose someone. (?)

3165. Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. (Malcolm Muggeridge)

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The Frictionary # 323

2011-02-27T11:01:00.003-05:00

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3146. Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question. (Billy Connolly)

3147. Camping (...), I'm from New York, where we call it homeless. (Karen Williams)

3148. Passion is a hypertrophy of the sense of ownership. (Étienne Rey)

3149. Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. (Elizabeth Bowen)

3150. Girl scouts: beggars with merit badges. ($#*! My Dad Says)

3151. Books had instant replay long before televised sports. (Bert Williams)

3152. Sighing is a reproach to the present, a smile to the past. (Delphine de Girardin)

3153. Adultery is the application of democracy to love. (H.L. Mencken)

3154. Advice to men over 50: keep an open mind and a closed refrigerator. (?)

3155. You find in solitude only what you take to it. (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

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The Frictionary # 322

2011-02-20T11:52:00.003-05:00

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3136. Successful crimes alone are justified. (John Dryden)

3137. The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. (Abe Lemons)

3138. Woman is the only mammal in the creation who, when coupling, is able to worry. (Pierre Foglia)

3139. "Gods" are like fingerprints - every person who believes in "God" has his or her own version of God. (Erich Vieth)

3140. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (Margaret Thatcher)

3141. I'd rather do nothing but do it well. (Bruno Blanchet)

3142. Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. (Fran Lebowitz)

3143. We've had bad luck with our kids....they've all grown up. (Christopher Morley)

3144. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. [Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.] (?)

3145. Does God exist? God only knows. (Jean d'Ormesson)

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The Frictionary # 321

2011-02-13T12:17:00.003-05:00

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3126. The source of justice was the fear of injustice. (Horace)

3127. Banks (...) lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess. (Irving Fisher)

3128. In gambling, when you're winning it's a profession. And when you lose, it's a sickness. (Réjean Tremblay)

3129. Wakefulness is a waste of energy. Cats and babies know this. (Walter Weller)

3130. Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry. (Charles Osgood)

3131. Why is it that it's always those who are against abortion that you would have wished their mothers had been aborted. (Guy Nantel)

3132. Habit is a form of exercice. (Elbert Hubbard)

3133. Third sign of the Apocalypse: there is a Golf Channel. (Chris Pirillo)

3134. If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. (?)

3135. Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. (Karl Kraus)

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The Frictionary # 320

2011-02-06T12:10:00.003-05:00

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3116. I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. (Robert Anton Wilson)

3117. Passion is other people's love. (Henri Duvernois)

3118. A lawsuit was dismissed against God. (...) the judge said you can't sue God. Because if you do, the next thing they'll start to challenge Microsoft. (Bill Maher)

3119. Impatience is a thirst that no justification can quench. (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

3120. What is love? An extension of life. What is lust? An extension. (Rodney Dangerfield)

3121. A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman knows. (Monica Piper)

3122. Politics is a tango. One step forward, two backwards. (Stéphane Laporte)

3123. After one look at this planet any visitor from outer pace would say, "I want to see the manager." (William S. Burroughs)

3124. "Google before you Tweet" is the new "think before you speak." (?)

3125. The freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. (A.J. Liebling)

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The Frictionary #319

2011-01-30T11:56:00.003-05:00

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3106. If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow. (Howard Hendricks)

3107. Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. (L.J. Peter)

3108. Happiness is pampering your addictions. (Réjean Lévesque)

3109. I hate change. I didn't used to...but I've changed. (Jim Davis (Garfield))

3110. Countries where honor is most important are those where people work the least. (Jean Dutourd)

3111. When I die, I'm going to leave my body to science fiction. (Steven Wright)

3112. How do you keep kids away from the Internet? Two words: Mandatory television. (Dennis Miller)

3113. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

3114. Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut? (?)

3115. Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Welsh proverb)

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The Frictionary # 318

2011-01-23T11:58:00.003-05:00

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3096. We only think when we are confronted with a problem. (John Dewey)

3097. Mirrors should reflect before sending images back. (Jean Cocteau)

3098. A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D.. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.. (Fats Domino)

3099. One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears. (Dean Rusk)

3100. We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. (Anaïs Nin)

3101. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well-lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. (Sanskrit proverb)

3102. They don't make bugs like Bunny anymore. (Olav Mjelde)

3103. There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on. (Rod Serling)

3104. In love, as in war, a fortress that parlays is half taken. (Marguerite de Valois)

3105. Anorexia is just another word for nothing left to lose. (Joy Behar)

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The Frictionary # 317

2011-01-16T13:42:00.003-05:00

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3086. Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies. (Walter Lippmann)

3087. We pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author. (Philip G. Hamerton)

3088. Experts say the earth's rotation is slowing down; it's probably due to the accumulation of National Geographic magazines in basements and the mass made by all those jars of pennies.* (Réjean Lévesque)
* 17 billion pennies put in circulation in the last 20 years - and that's only in Canada.

3089. Women and calendars are good only for one year. (Spanish proverb)

3090. The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed. (Clark Kerr)

3091. Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. (Tom Lehrer)

3092. Oral sex? Is it when you talk about it or when you listen to it? (Réjean Lévesque)

3093. Subtract the size of the world
From an empty stomach
And over the difference construct a roof. (Rebecca Gonzales)

3094. Thesaurus: n. Ancient reptile with large vocabulary. (?)

3095. I think I finally understand the Oscars. It's a chance for the movie industry to show people how boring television is. (Bill Maher)

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The Frictionary # 316

2011-01-09T11:23:00.003-05:00

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3076. Good is not good when better is expected. (Thomas Fuller)

3077. What's good with pessimism is that you can only have nice surprises. (Guy Bedos)

3078. What do you give a man who has everything? Penicillin. (Jerry Lester)

3079. Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. (Hafiz)

3080. Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. (Scott Adams)

3081. Be modest, it's the kind of pride that displeases the least. (Jules Renard)

3082. We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it. (Dave Barry)

3083. Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. (Joseph Stalin)

3084. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. (?)

3085. God cannot alter the past, but historians can. (Samuel Butler)

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The Frictionary # 315

2011-01-02T11:38:00.006-05:00

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3066. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.* (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
* Said one of the most quoted authors.

3067. "Tired cliché" is also a cliché, as well as a pleonasm. (Otto Penzler)

3068. You can only forget time by using it. (Charles Baudelaire)

3069. Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls-Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. (Warren Buffet)

3070. Conscience is the consequence of renouncement of pulsions. (Sigmund Freud)

3071. There was a time (...), when it was incredibly easy to love your neighbor because he was remote. (Pierre Foglia)

3072. Like the wind searching,
Lifting feathers round
the sparrow's neck,
Lifting leaves in a wave
across the bean field
I find no place
where I can say,
here my being ends. (Colin Oliver)

3073. What's the use in having thinner TVs if the programs get thicker. (Laurent Paquin)

3074. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing. (Peter F. Drucker)

3075. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it. (H.L. Mencken)

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Happy New Year!

The Frictionary #314

2010-12-26T10:47:00.003-05:00

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3056. The only wealth which will not decay is knowledge. (J.A. Langford)

3057. Making something useless with class is typically Italian. (Leo Bassi)

3058. To err may be human, but to admit it isn't. (Herbert V. Prochnow)

3059. Language is the House of Being. (Martin Heidegger)

3060. I think therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. (Milan Kundera)

3061. Our factory setting is self-interest. (Andrew Potter)

3062. There are plenty of fish in the sea, but half don't like your bait and the other half taste bad. (Sarah Jakubowski)

3063. Seattle is like the girl of your dreams...except that she's always sick. (Greg Dulli)

3064. We've always thought nepotism was okay as long as it was kept in the family. (Christine Lehman)

3065. To isolate yourself is to betray. (Victor Hugo)

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The Frictionary # 313

2010-12-19T11:23:00.003-05:00

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3046. To be uncertain is unconfortable, but to be certain is ridiculous. (Chinese proverb)

3047. "Ah, the book was much better than the movie." Oh, really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading. (Jim Gaffigan)

3048. The future is not an improved present. It's something else. (Elsa Triolet)

3049. Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. (Margaret Millar)

3050. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. (Franz Kafka)

3051. Not everything that can't be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)

3052. The infinite has no expiration date. (Réjean Lévesque)

3053. There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. (Alfred Hitchcock)

3054. Ham and eggs...A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig. (?)

3055. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. (Phyllis Diller)

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Happy Holidays to everyone! And Peace on Earth, please.

The Frictionary # 312

2010-12-12T11:42:00.003-05:00

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3036. The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. (Norman O. Brown)

3037. Man: a by-product of love. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

3038. Love vows is the sentimental form of the NSF cheque. (Georges-Armand Masson)

3039. 10% of people 24 and younger think it's OK to text during sex, (...). That brings a whole new meaning to the term "multitasking". (Brenna Ehrlich)

3040. People who sing their own praises are hopelessly out of tune. (Mardy Grothe)

3041. If the fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom, it is at least the beginning of religion. (George William Foote)

3042. Being happy is having gone beyond the worry brought by happiness. (Maurice Maeterlinck)

3043. A new survey found that only 25% of women are satisfied with their sex life. Although up to half of those women may have faked their answer. (Jimmy Fallon)

3044. Immortality exists; it's called knowledge. (?)

3045. Critics talk about art...artists talk about brushes. (Joe Haldeman)

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The Frictionary # 311

2010-12-05T12:53:00.003-05:00

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3026. Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. (David Sarnoff)

3027. "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know for sure if they are genuine." Abraham Lincoln. (?)

3028. Too many trials wear out freedom, too many proofs wear out truth. (Vincent Cespedes)

3029. Eternity - waste of time. (Natalie Clifford Barney)

3030. I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra. (Daniel Dennett)

3031. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow)

3032. So many programs to tell us how to cook, so few to teach us how to do the dishes. (Yves Pelletier)

3033. No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.* (Richard Petty)
*Why are there so many quitters then?

3034. Morality is what's left of fear once it has been forgotten. (Jean Rostand)

3035. A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. (Steven Wright)

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The Frictionary # 310

2010-11-28T11:22:00.005-05:00

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3016. The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man. (Robertson Davies)

3017. Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing. (Lillian Eichler Watson)

3018. Fashion goes out of fashion, style never. (Coco* Chanel)
*Her real first name was Gabrielle.

3019. There's a difference beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. (John Erskine)

3020. Stability is not immobility. (Klemens von Metternich)

3021. Memory, the ability that chooses. (Laurent Laplante)

3022. They even stopped making excuses. It's cheaper to import them. (Mike Baldwin -"Cornered")

3023. It is the warm law of man
From grape they make wine
From coal they make fire
From kisses they make men. (Paul Éluard)

3024. Once you're over the hill, you pick up speed. (Charles M. Schulz)

3025. Men mourn for what they have lost, women for what they ain't got. (Josh Billings)

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The Frictionary # 309

2010-11-21T11:28:00.004-05:00

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3006. Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. (L.J. Peter & Raymond Hull)

3007. A relationship (...), is like a shark, (...). It has to constantly move forward or it dies. (Woody Allen)

3008. Working is health, doing nothing is to preserve it. (Henri Salvador)

3009. Disposable diapers is now engulfing a good one-third of the world's landmass. In descending order of size, I believe it's now Asia, North America, and then Huggies. (Paul Reiser)

3010. The ultimate path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. (Sengstan)

3011. Love is a sickness without which we don't feel good. (Marguerite Grépon)

3012. "Plenty of fish in the sea". But, what they don't tell you though, is that those fish have all been thrown back. (Trevor Boris)

3013. My father loved me. My mother told me so, (Peter MacLeod)

3014. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. (?)

3015. The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you. (Carl Jung)

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The Frictionary # 308

2010-11-14T11:06:00.003-05:00

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2996. Love is like a fire, if not fed, it goes out. (Mikhaïl Lermontov)

2997. The sea is the biggest country in the world. The only one where man will always be a stranger. (Stéphane Laporte)

2998. The best liars are those who believe their own lies.* (Liev Schreiber)
* Particularly appropriate in the case of the mid-term elections in the US.

2999. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell)

3000. To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree". ('Almightygod' on Twitter)

3001. To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. (George Byron)

3002. Sometimes I say to a poem,
"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the sun."
And the poem will often
Respond
By climbing onto a barroom table
Then lifts its skirt,
Winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall. (Hafez)

3003. Golf is a game in which you yell "fore", shoot six, and write down five. (Paul Harvey)

3004. We cannot "unlive". (Nicolas Dickner)

3305. To see a candle light, one must take it into a dark place. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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The Frictionary # 307

2010-11-07T10:45:00.003-05:00

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2986. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)

2987. When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. (Brian Aldiss)

2988. The first step toward philosophy is incredulity. (Denis Diderot)

2989. Cursing is the bowel movement of the soul. (Joseph Goebbels)

2990. Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. (Diane Wakowski)

2991. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. (Robert Green Ingersoll)

2992. Oprah's announced that she's quitting her show in 2011 - So now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012. (Craig Ferguson)

2993. We always believe the one we know the least. (Stéphane Laporte)

2994. A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in it. (Austin O'Malley)

2995. Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. (Joyce Brothers)

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The Frictionary # 306

2010-10-31T10:56:00.003-04:00

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2976. It is impossible for someone to lie unless he knows the truth. (Harry G. Frankfurt)

2977. The semi-colon: the bastard child of the period and the comma. (Gary Gulman)

2978. Children are unpredictible; they get older and then they die. (Jean-Marie Gourio)

2979. Hope is the last thing to die in man. (Diogenes)

2980. You cannot invite the wind but you must leave the window open. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

2981. Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man. (James Thurber)

2982. (P)erhaps is it better for God we do not believe in him. (Albert Camus)

2983. If I ever own an optician's, I'll have the sign done in a blurry font. (Jimmy Carr)

2984. In the past, parents raised children; today they finance them. (?)

2985. Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. (Joseph Cook)

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The Frictionary # 305

2010-10-24T11:01:00.003-04:00

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2966. An eye for an eye leads to a world of blind men.* (Kahlil Gibran)
* Often attributed to Gandhi.

2967. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive. What they conceal is vital. (Arthur Koestler)

2968. Humor is the only art that doesn't lie. (Mélanie Couture)

2969. I love Thanksgiving turkey...it's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

2970. It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame. (Blaine Nye)

2971. Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. (Japanese proverb)

2972. I make some noise, therefore I am. (Marc Parent)

2973. Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. (Ann Oakley)

2974. 10 rations=1 decoration [...], 10 monologues=5 dialogues, 10 millipedes= 1 centipede, .00001 fish= 1 microfiche. (Jennifer L. Knox)

2975. Normal is a setting on the dryer. (Katie Marsh)

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The Frictionary # 304

2010-10-17T11:08:00.004-04:00

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2956. Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. (Arnold H. Glasow)

2957. You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do being right for the wrong reasons. (Norton Juster)

2958. The only people who have the right to claim Antartica and the Arctic are the bipolars. (Stéphane Laporte)

2959. When times in the yard are full of lies,
Why sing like a nightingale in the emperor's cage. (Katia Kapovich)

2960. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. (James Fallows)

2961. Laughter, like orgasm, forces us to live in the present. (Mélanie Couture)

2962. Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them. (Pam Davis)

2963. Happiness has never made anybody happy. (Pierre Rey)

2964. Democracy: you say what you want and you do what they tell you to do. (?)

2965. Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. (Bill Vaughn)

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The Frictionary # 303

2010-10-10T12:10:00.003-04:00

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2946. Science is but an image of the truth. (Francis Bacon)

2947. If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host. (Gabriel Heatter)

2948. The sweetness of honey does not console from the sting of the bee. (French proverb)

2949. A hairless cat is like a meowing scrotum. (Billy Tellier)

2950. History's most popular delusion is to believe there is only one reality. (Mardy Grothe)

2951. Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

2952. The smallest minds have the biggest prejudices. (Victor Hugo)

2953. What seems temporal is everlasting
As the space between now and then. (Jim Culleny)

2954. For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. (Bill Cosby)

2955. Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. (Norman Cousins)

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The Frictionary # 302

2010-10-03T11:22:00.003-04:00

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2936. The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. (Nolan Bushnell)

2937. Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. (Bodie Thoene)

2938. Only rich people inherit a million. (Jules Renard)

2939. We must blush from committing sins, not for confessing them. (Voltaire)

2940. My personality test results came back. They're negative. (Erica Minton)

2941. Art is a way of screaming. (Miles Orwell)

2942. Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; all else is opinion. (Democritus)

2943. Sexaholics! You'd like to cure yourselves? Get married. You will gradually stop. (Réjean Lévesque)

2944. If you want security on your computer, turn it off. (?)

2945. Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. (Lao Tsu)

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The Frictionary # 301

2010-09-26T11:44:00.002-04:00

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2926. You are only what you are when no one is looking. (Robert C. Edwards)

2927. The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. (Nicola Gomez Davila)

2928. We must despise money, most of all small change. (François Cavanna)

2929. A fact is only a belief that somebody calls a fact. (David Cain)

2930. Bed-bugs can live up to a year without feeding - they're like supermodels. (Craig Ferguson)

2931. Truth and roses have thorns about them. (Henry David Thoreau)

2932. So many people wouldn't go to church if only God could see them. (Jules Petit-Senn)

2933. The most important liquid on Earth is not oil. It is water. (Joette McDonald)

2934. Two plus two, four less four, nine times nine
The square root of pi, theorems and proofs, the curve of a sine
Math is a simile for the shape of time. (Jim Culleny)

2935. I dream, therefore I exist. (August Strindberg)

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The Frictionary # 300

2010-09-19T11:21:00.003-04:00

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2916. Make your life a mission - not an intermission. (Arnold H. Glasow*)
* Sometimes quoted as Glasgow.

2917. Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

2918. Platonic love is a volcano without eruptions. (André Prévot)

2919. If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. (P.D. James)

2920. The cow is of the bovine ilk
One end is moo, the other milk. (Ogden Nash)

2921. When women go wrong, men go right after them. (Mae West)

2922. Men that are lost but sure to be human GPS's are much like women who are all convinced that they have taste for decoration. (Guillaume Wagner)

2923. Stupidity has no flag. (Coluche)

2924. Birds of a feather flock together...and then shit on your car. (?)

2925. He who does not hope to win has already lost. (Jose Joaquin Olmedo)

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This edition is the 300th - it is kind of a milestone. The Frictionary debuted on March 11, 2005 and has been published weekly since then. I hope you had as much pleasure reading it as I had picking and offering the quotations that made it up.

The Frictionary # 299

2010-09-12T12:53:00.003-04:00

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2906. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

2907. We rarely know why we love. We always think we know why we don't love anymore. (Marcelle Auclair)

2908. The main difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is that the used car salesman can probably drive and knows he's lying. (Peter da Silva)

2909. To imagine is to choose. (Jean Giono)

2910. Advice to writers. Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

2911. Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)

2912. God believes in Planned Parenthood - He had only one child. (Flynn Connolly)

2913. There is never a second chance for the first time. (Frank Dubosc)

2914. God works in mysterious ways. But at least he works. He's never on welfare in mysterious ways. (Stephen Colbert)

2915. Fear is the mother of morality. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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The Frictionary # 298

2010-09-05T11:22:00.005-04:00

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2896. Whatever is only almost true is quite false. (Henry Ward Beecher)

2897. The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. (Jonathan Glancey)

2898. Fedoras being expensive, it's better not to let your head get too swollen. (Christian Mistral)

2899. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. (Samuel Johnson)

2900. Whatever limits us, we call fate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

2901. Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. (Corey Ford)

2902. I believe in facing reality, but only because I don't like turning my back on it. (Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest))

2903. Love - it's the country whose infinity is opened by two mirrors facing each other. (André Hardellet)

2904. The Roman numerals for forty (40) are XL. (?)

2905. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. (Victoria Holt)

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The Frictionary # 297

2010-08-29T12:07:00.004-04:00

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2886. Maturity is being comfortable with your occasional moments of immaturity. (Mardy Grothe)

2887. The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. (Benjamin Franklin)

2888. Courage is measured against the fear it surmounts. (Jacques Ferron)

2889. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. (Steven Wright)

2890. Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. (Tom Lehrer)

2891. If Facebook was a country, it would be the third-largest country on earth*...and by far the least productive. (Jimmy Kimmel)
*Half a billion members (August 2010).

2892. Today is the pupil of yesterday. (Publilius Syrus)

2893 The same ad - often shoddy - plays twice in a row and the same ad - often shoddy - plays twice in a row. See how irritating it is? See how irritating it is? (Hugo Dumas)

2894. Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others. (?)

2895. Inspiration is good, but you also need expiration. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 296

2010-08-22T11:17:00.003-04:00

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2876. Lying is just another form of acting. (Ellen Degeneres)

2877. I never forgive, but I always forget. (Arthur James Balfour)

2878. Men are born free and legally equal. But, then, afterward, some get married. (Marcel Jouhandeau)

2879. Bad politicians are sent to Washington* by good people who don't vote. (William E. Simon)
* You can replace Washington with the democratically run capital of your choice.

2880. Geography is the why of where. (Paul Blank)

2881. America is the only country in the world where people are allowed more than one adolescence. (Millard Kaufman)

2882. Playpens, [...] brightly colored, miniature jails. (Paul Reiser)

2883. Silence is made of words we have not said. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

2884. Matter + Antimatter = Probably doesn't matter. (Dave Whamond "Reality Check")

2885. There is only one you...Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered. (Charles Swindoll)

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The Frictionary # 295

2010-08-15T11:31:00.003-04:00

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2866. If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion. (Kedar Joshi)

2867. A cause a day keeps reality away. (Jim Fraser)

2868. Conscience is useless, like the appendix, it only makes man sick. (Albert Brie)

2869. The last camel of the caravan has the same pace as the first. (African proverb)

2870. Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. (Erica Jong)

2871. Talking is the most human thing we can do. (Greg Bear)

2872. We learn when young and we understand as we get older. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

2873. I don't want a woman with good taste - I want a woman who tastes good. (Alan P. Scott)

2874. Blasphemy is a victimless crime. (?)

2875. Reality is frequently inaccurate. (Douglas Adams)

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The Frictionary # 294

2010-08-08T11:20:00.003-04:00

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2856. Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. (Doug Horton)

2857. Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. (Al Bundy)

2858. Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

2859. At times I think and at times I am. (Paul Valéry)

2860. I'm sick of following my dreams, I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later. (Mitch Hedberg)

2861. Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. (Fernando Sabino)

2862. The present is where an infinite array of possible futures collapse into one. (Richard Eskow)

2863. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. (Zig Ziglar)

2864. Who says nothing is impossible. I've been doing it for years. (?)

2865. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. (Chinese proverb)

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The Frictionary # 293

2010-08-01T11:20:00.003-04:00

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2846. To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania. (Joseph Prescott)

2847. I am a daylight atheist. (Brendan F. Behan)

2848. God never built a church. (Alan P. Scott)

2849. Advice worth gold rarely yield money. (Jacques Sternberg)

2850. Some people have mental blocks, I have entire neighborhoods. (Tim Lane)

2851. Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. (Thomas Fuller)

2852. In the kingdom of the one-eyed, seeing dogs are half-price. (François Parenteau)

2853. When did I realize I was God? I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. (Peter O'Toole)

2854. Procreation doesn't harm the environment; Man is biodegradable. (?)

2855. Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. (Eric Sevareid)

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The Frictionary # 292

2010-07-25T12:12:00.004-04:00

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2836. We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. (Buzzy Bavasi)

2837. The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts. (Kedar Joshi)

2838. The only unforgivable sin is the sin of boredom. (Réjean Lévesque)

2839. When turkeys mate they think of swans. (Johnny Carson)

2840. Charles Darwin was not originally an evolutionist, he just gradually became one. (Irwin Barker)

2841. Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away. (Maya Angelou)

2842. Dogs have owners. Cats have staff. (Dave Barry)

2843. Language is the DNA of every culture. (Gilles Vigneault)

2844. Don't take yourself too seriously, nobody else does. (?)

2845. Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it. (Mark Twain)

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The Frictionary # 291

2010-07-18T11:38:00.003-04:00

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2826. Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

2827. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! (Marvin Phillips)

2828. Egotist: a man who doesn't think of me. (Eugène Labiche)

2829. Dreams are to achievement what architecture is to construction. (Mardy Grothe)

2830. What is a "blog"? An Internet destination that can be set up in a minute and largely ignored for years at a time. (Chris Pirillo)

2831. The universe is a useless dictionary for someone who does not provide his own grammar. (Nicolas Gomez Davila)

2832. As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. (Norman Wisdom)

2833. A couple is a compromise. (Guy A. Lepage)

2834. Men are like bank accounts; if they have no money they don't generate interest. (?)

2835. Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything. (Frank Yerby)

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The Frictionary # 290

2010-07-11T11:39:00.003-04:00

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2816. You cannot unmask a mask. (G.K. Chesterton)

2817. The biggest reason against public transportation: the public. (Mark Denovich)

2818. Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world: everyone thinks he is well equipped. (René Descartes)

2819. Self-love seems so often unrequited. (Anthony Powell)

2820. It's when we have nothing to do that time is precious. (Dany Laferrière)

2821. The grass is always greener in a cemetary. (Amanda Gonzalez)

2822. When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top. (German proverb)

2823. There is no liberation without labor (...) and there is no freedom which is free. (Yogi Bhajan*)
* His Sikh title is the Siri Singh Sahib. He was born Har Bhajan Singh Puri.

2824. Yoreskin (n.): what's left after a circumcision. (Alan P. Scott)

2825. The best time to make friends is before you need them. (Ethel Barrymore)

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The Frictionary # 289

2010-07-04T15:46:00.004-04:00

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2806. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

2807. Nietszsche is written as it is sneezed. (?)

2808. Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. (Doug Horton)

2809. Stoicism is a religion that has only one sacrament: suicide. (Charles Baudelaire)

2810. Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. (Bernard Berenson)

2811. Feelings are much like waves; we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf. (Jonaton Martensson)

2812. The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. (Dilbert Principle). (Scott Adams)

2813. Friendship is more often an exit door than an entrance door to love. (Gustave LeBon)

2814. I was denied membership into Club Soda. (Chris Pirillo)

2815. If you write anything criticizing editing or proffreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written (Muphry's Law). (John Bangsund)

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The Frictionary # 288

2010-06-27T11:00:00.003-04:00

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2796. The present is where the future comes to die. (Richard Eskow)

2797. A minor operation is one that is done on someone else. (Richard Selzer)

2798. It's not love that makes the world go 'round, it's inertia. (Gregory Benford)

2799. I agree with changing my mind...but with whom? (Tristan Bernard)

2800. Love is physics. Marriage is chemistry. (Alexandre Dumas, son)

2801. A really smart bomb would refuse to explode. (Alan P. Scott)

2802. Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. (S.A. Sachs)

2803. We make a living by working...We get rich by getting others to work. (Octave Mirbeau)

2804. Democracy is but a word in the dictionary. (?)

2805. A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. (Maya Angelou)

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The Frictionary # 287

2010-06-20T11:15:00.003-04:00

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2786. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. (Gloria Steinem)

2787. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin)

2788. We are never more bored than with people to whom we cannot tell it. (Jean Benjamin de Laborde)

2789. Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. (Howard Dietz)

2790. Contempt is a mask worn over sadness. (Alphonse Karr)

2791. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. (Emily Dickinson)

2792. When we smell a flower, we smell the sex of a plant. (Paul-Armand Gette)

2793. It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Publilius Syrus*)
* He was the originator of the famous proverb "A rolling stone gathers no moss." (1st Century B.C.).

2794. TV: chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

2795. Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. (Malcom S. Forbes)

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The Frictionary # 286

2010-06-13T11:26:00.003-04:00

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2776. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. (Henry B. Adams)

2777. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. (Anton Chekhov)

2778. That must be what it is to live, making choices regularly, or having the impression of making choices. (Paul Villeneuve)

2779. Silence is one of the hardest argument to refute. (Josh Billings)

2780. Golf is playing marbles for men who don't want to bend over. (Youp van't Hek)

2781. (Poetry) is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. (George Byron)

2782. The philosopher builds a palace of ideas and lives in a cottage. (Bruno Samson)

2783. You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love. (Gerhard Kocher)

2784. If necessity is the mother of invention, what was papa doing? (?)

2785. For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. (Mignon McLaughlin)

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The Frictionary # 285

2010-06-06T11:51:00.003-04:00

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2766. Freedom is a shagreen* that shrinks with brain washing. (Henri Jeanson)
* Thin leather that shrinks when wet ("peau de chagrin" in French).

2767. The man who doesn't try is mistaken only once. (Lao Tzu)

2768. They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. (Clint Eastwood)

2769. You can only regret if you had a choice. (Nightmare Brunette)

2770. A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. (Joey Adams)

2771. You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. (Edward Abbey)

2772. If you are an atheist, it must be in bad faith. (Frédéric Dard)

2773. We wear masks in order not to lose face. (Réjean Lévesque)

2774. Beauty is only a light switch away. (?)

2775. Everybody thinks of changing the world, (...), the world will be different if we are different. We are the world. (Tishan)

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The Frictionary # 284

2010-05-30T11:26:00.003-04:00

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2756. Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. (Martin H. Fischer)

2757. The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. (Will Rogers)

2758. Life is guaranteed for life. (Pierre Foglia)

2759. Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil. (Sydney J. Harris)

2760. Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification. (Sarah Scott)

2761. We speak of hope, but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear? (Elizabeth Letitia Landon)

2762. The more I know men, the more I love women. (Francis Blanche)

2763. The tango must have been invented by a person prone to indecision. (Félix Leclerc)

2764. The problem with reality is the lack of background music. (?)

2765. Truth is like water that takes the shape of the vase that holds it. (Ibn Khaldun)

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The Frictionary # 283

2010-05-23T11:26:00.003-04:00

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2746. The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated. (Doug Horton)

2747. Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading. (Sarah Orne Jewett)

2748. Every apple is a flower that has known love. (Félix Leclerc)

2749. His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. (Arthur Baer)

2750. Dust bunnies are molecular chambers and
Laundry is a colorful list of historical moments. (Jen D. Clark)

2751. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road. (Henry Ward Beecher)

2752. Boredom is a disease of life. We build fences so we can jump them. (Alfred de Vigny)

2753. You can't be a genius and not know it. (Réjean Lévesque)

2754. An economist is a man who measures the value of love by the price of prostitution. (?)

2755. A gun gives you the body, not the bird. (Henry David Thoreau)

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The Frictionary # 282

2010-05-16T12:38:00.003-04:00

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2736. Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. (Herman Wouk)

2737. There is nothing natural in the Museum of Natural History. (Robert Smithson)

2738. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. (Chinese proverb)

2739. How can a sane woman marry a gynecologist? (Réjean Lévesque)

2740. Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way. (Robert Frost)

2741. Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. (Don Marquis)

2742. Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican
His beak holds more than his belican
He takes in his beak
Food enough for a week.
But I'll be darned if I know how the helican. (Dixon Lanier Merritt)

2743. Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. (Carl Reiner)

2744. Common sense could prevent most divorces, also most marriages. (?)

2745. Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. (Nathaniel Branden)

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The Frictionary # 281

2010-05-09T12:08:00.003-04:00

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2726. People don't change, they just adapt. (Link E. Starbureiy)

2727. There is always a big future in computer maintenance. (Christopher Guest)

2728. Only in the control business is there no unemployment. (Julos Beaucarne)

2729. What the hell was God doing before the creation? (Samuel Beckett)

2730. Change is the end result of all true learning. (Leo Buscaglia)

2731. The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. (Al Batt)

2732. Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. (George Carlin)

2733. Our heads are round in order to allow our thoughts to change directions. (Francis Picabia)

2734. If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. (Zen saying)

2735. Money talks but credit has an echo! (Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest))

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The Frictionary # 280

2010-05-02T12:01:00.003-04:00

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2716. Why fear death? Be scared of living. (Laura Marling)

2717. Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. (André Gide)

2718. No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

2719. All is relative, except infinity. (François Gaston duc de Lévis)

2720. Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. (Helen Keller)

2721. Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI.* (Christopher Guest)
* There is a version where the FBI is replaced by the CIA.

2722. "There is no one who does not exaggerate", said Emerson. I say there is absolutely no one. (Réjean Lévesque)

2723. Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. (William Arthur Ward)

2724. I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus. (?)

2725. An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. (Don Marquis)

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The Frictionary # 279

2010-04-25T11:52:00.003-04:00

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2706. Love is random; fear is inevitable. (Orson Scott Card)

2707. Words are the small change of thought. (Jules Renard)

2708. I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. (Arthur C. Clarke)

2709. A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended. (Evan Esar)

2710. The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it. (Julie Holz)

2711. Cruelty is the first of God's attributes. (André Gide)

2712. I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. (David Lee Roth)

2713. We don't get to change things to suit our desires, but, little by little, our desires change. (Marcel Proust)

2714. Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button. (?)

2715. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. (Erica Jong)

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The Frictionary # 278

2010-04-18T11:10:00.003-04:00

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2696. Do not be afraid of making mistakes for there is no other way of learning how to live. (Alfred Adler)

2697. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. (Dave Barry)

2698. Fear was only the ancient word for respect. (Nancy Kress)

2699. The key to all sciences is assuredly the question mark. (Honoré de Balzac)

2700. Punctuality is the thief of time. (Oscar Wilde)

2701. It's kind of a cross between hunting and gathering... I call it "taxing". (Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest))

2702. Lying to children is stirring up revolution. (Pierre Gélinas)

2703. Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the anonymous blogger. (Simon Moores)

2704. Love changes everything except diapers. (?)

2705. You were born an original, so don't die a copy. (Mardy Grothe)

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The Frictionary # 277

2010-04-11T11:08:00.003-04:00

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2686. Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. (Christine Keeler)

2687. Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. (G.K. Chesterton)

2688. Achilles was gay. He broke a heel and died. (ANT)

2689. I won't brag about having taste, but my distaste is very trustworthy. (Jules Renard)

2690. Democracy is based on the idea (among others) that nobody is more entitled to govern than the others. So, it is perfectly democratic to elect imbeciles. (Pierre Foglia)

2691. Fear is like the microwavable version of respect. It doesn't taste as good, but it's much easier to make. (Jack Collins)

2692. Women can fake orgasms, we (men) can fake listening. (Alonzo Bodden)

2693. Because he has been taught that solitude is a disease, man has transformed himself into a turtle with antennae who carries his office on his back. (Charles Dantzig)

2694. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. (?)

2695. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. (Antisthenes*)
* Co-founder (with Diogenes) of the Cynic School of Philosophy.

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The Frictionary # 276

2010-04-04T11:55:00.004-04:00

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2676. The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. (Barry Goldwater)

2677. Never buy a bagel in a donut shop. (Cathy Holdeman)

2678. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. (...). Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. (Kent Nerbum)

2679. It is what divides men that multiplies their differences. (Pierre Dac)

2680. Never tie a shoelace in a revolving door. (Charles Veritie)

2681. Marriage is a graft; it takes or not. (Victor Hugo)

2682. Intelligence alone could defeat the heat-death of the universe, the dark wolf at the long, thin end of time. (Ian McDonald)

2683. It is not chic to be too chic. (Elsie de Wolfe)

2684. The difference between men and boys...is the price of their toys. (?)

2685. Eyes believe in themselves, ears believe others. (German proverb)

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The Frictionary # 275

2010-03-28T11:36:00.003-04:00

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2666. Who kills for love of god kills love
Who kills in name of god leaves god
Without a name (Wole Soyinka)

2667. In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down. (Brian Weir)

2668. Some think that "here" can only be here, but there are "heres" everywhere. I know because a moment ago I was over there and they told me, "What are you doing here?". (Philippe Geluck)

2669. If you want to know the truth about yourself, insult your neighbor. (Czech proverb)

2670. The summary of all the advice of the prophets is this: Find a mirror. (Shams Tabrizi)

2671. Magnetism, (...) is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. (Dave Barry)

2672. Christianism did not invent modesty, it invented its hypocrisy. (Rémy de Gourmont)

2673. Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? (Clifford Stoll)

2674. Any fool can use a computer. Many do. (?)

2675. The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. (Doug Larson)

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