Sunday, October 25, 2026

The Frictionary # 1175

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11276. Psychiatrist: a lunatic whose obsession is to cure other lunatics. (Georges Elgozy)

11277. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (T.S. Eliot)

11278. It is never what we do that makes us stress out; it is how we do it. (Dhyan)

11279. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. (Benjamin Franklin)

11280. You have to live all of one life to discover how short it is. (François Gervais)

11281. How much more fun would breast implants be if they had squeaky toys inside them? (Thom Gilmore)

11282. A family that shouts is a united family. (Gérald Godin)

11283. When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness. (Emo Phillips)

11284. Children are for people who can't have dogs. (?)

11285. All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition. (Cesare Pavese). * Are you thinking of Trump?

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Sunday, October 18, 2026

The Frictionary # 1174

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11266. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.. (Edward Abbey)

11267. When we love, we always love too much. (Marcel Achard)

11268. The Greeks used to wrestle in the nude - they'd still do it if you'd let them. (Brett Butt)

11269. Notre Père, que ton nom soit programmé. (Yves Cailhier)

11270. Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. (Joseph Campbell)

11271. Certaines personnes ont tellement honte d'emprunter qu'elles n'osent pas rendre. (Frédéric Dard)

11272. A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles John Darling)

11273. The work that you carried in yourself always seems more beautiful than the one you made. (Alphonse Daudet)

11274. Ecology is the study of who eats whom. (?)

11275. The truth needs so little rehearsal. (Barbara Kingsolver)

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Sunday, October 11, 2026

The Frictionary # 1173

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11256. What can't be named is eternal/ Naming splits  the eternal to smithereens. (Lao Tzu)

11257. Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses. (Wendy Liebman)

11258. A man whom one has loved with love rarely deserves to be loved with friendship. (Claire Martin)

11259. In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers. (Richard Dawkins)

11260. We don’t undergo the future, we make it, (Georges Bernanos)

11261. Fall, the two days between summer and winter. (Eli Grober)

11262. We know that an era has become unbearable when irony is no longer appropriate. (Dany Laferrière)

11263. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. (Cyril Connolly)

11264. You're old when you hear your favorite song on the elevator. (?)

11265. The two most dismal sciences: psychiatry and history; one studies the weaknesses of man, the other the weaknesses of mankind. (Michel Campiche)

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Sunday, October 04, 2026

The Frictionary # 1172

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11246. The only time really wasted is when we spend time regretting the missed opportunities. (Grégire Lacroix)

11247. I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people. (Savielly Tartakower)

11248.  A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it. (Carolyn Heilbrun)

11249. Those who have inner beauty and outer beauty are reversible people. (Philippe Geluck)

11250. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. (Robert Frost)

11251. There are no popular governments. To govern is to dissatisfy. (Anatole France)

11252. Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. (John Fowles)

11253. What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards. (Milos Forman)

11254. Dignity is one thhing that alcohol does not preserve. (?)

11255. I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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Sunday, September 27, 2026

The Frictionary # 1171

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11236. - What do you think the world needs? - A hug and a vacation from people. (Wiley Miller  "Non Sequitur")

11237. Why, like objects, isn’t there an office of lost and found loves? (Pierre Dac)

11238. Texas: the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest and see the least. (H.L.Mencken)

11239. To explain yourself is to lie. (Pierre Perret)

11240. Money is like manure.  If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. (Clint Murchison)

11241. The tongue always has an interest in not quarreling with the teeth. (African proverb)

11242. Burnout (...) is a loss of friendship with time itself. (David Whyte)

11244.Thought for the Day:Hmmmmm. (?)

11245. Generosity makes at least two people feel good. (Karen Casey)

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Sunday, September 20, 2026

The Frictionary # 1170

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11226.If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.  What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)

11227. Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. (Don Herold)

11228. Wit does not protect from being crazy. (Émile Henriot)

11229. You know what makes a good loser?  Practice. (Ernest Hemingway)

11230. Jesus came into the world before the year 0 of himself, a fact unique in the history of the prematures. (Éric Orthwein)

11231. What's faith if not what I refuse to know? (Bruce Snider)

11232. Nostalgia is the sadness of having been happy. (Alain Sautereaud)

11233. Ever notice that people say "God knows" when they mean "no one knows". (almightygod)

11234. Sundays are peaceful because the most evil people are at church.(?)

11235. A bird born in a cage thinks that flying is a disease. (Alejandro Jodorowski)

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Sunday, September 13, 2026

The Frictionary # 1169

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11216. Gratitude ages quickly. (Aristotle)

11217. A good father is a little bit of a mother. (Lee Salk)

11218. The pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. (Voltaire)

11219. It is possible to live a simple, uncomplicated life, but we usually call it by a different name. We call it loneliness. (Robert Brault)

11220. Nowadays, the priests are the only ones who want to get married. (Louise de Vilmorin)

11221. Some are guilty, but all are responsible. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)

11222. Earthworms sink into the ground so as not to fall in love with the stars. (Yvan Audouard)

11223. Invite grief for a walk, remind it with a whisper/ we all need fresh air. (Mahogany L. Browne)

11224. The reason swans mate for life is that they don't talk. (?)

11225. It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking. (Eric Hoffer)

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