Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9136. Dying for ideas, okay, but a slow death. (Georges Brassens)9137. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made upon the spot. (W, R… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9146. Take a good book to bed - books don,t snore. (Thea Dorn)9147. For the raindrop, joy is entering the river-/ Unbearable pain become… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary: 9156. Hatred makes us ugly before soiling the person who receives it. (Marie Laberge)9157. Here's the thing about odds and probability… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9166. Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor, it is the sign that he wants all the truth. (Mark Van Doren)9167. The solu… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9176. The traveler returns sooner or later, if not, he is not a traveler. (Dany Laferrière)9177. If you're not here, well neither… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9186. What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the brim of every cup. (Bo… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9196. In astronomy, seeing far is going back in time. The more you go forward, the more you go back. It's much like politics. (Sté… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9206. Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it. (Belgicia Howell)9207. War is a terrorist at… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9216. Resentment, anger, hatred are poisons that you drink and you expect somebody else to die. (Sadhguru)9217. How can you believe in G… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9226. Ignoring violence can lead to submitting to it. (Pierre Foglia)9227. What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9236. Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. (Channing Pollock)9237. Promises only bind those who believe them. (Char… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9246. Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. (Angela Carter)9247. Love does not want duration, it wants the instan… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9256. Success is the ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets. (Ugandan proverb)9257. Science is not a collection o… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9266. A novel is a mirror out for a ride on a highway. (Stendhal)9267. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. (A… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9276. Happiness equals reality minus expectations. (Tim Magliozzi)9277. Women remember their first kiss long after men have forgott… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9286. There is no love without justice. They are identical. (Gerald Stern)9287. One more proof of the absence of God, the presence of Tr… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9296. Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. (Leo Rosten)9297. The night caresses/ under the moon's cold eye/ the bru… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9306. We never answer questions that we do not ask ourselves. (Pierre Foglia)9307. Man will confess to treason, murder, arson, false tee… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9316. The only lasting truth is Change. (Octavia Butler)9317. Becoming is an ongoing process as long as you live. (Réjean L&eacut… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9326. It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. (Mark Twain)9327. There are many things that do not e… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9336. The heart rarely lies, but we don't like to listen to it. (Denis Diderot)9337. I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9346. One of life's mysteries is how people who never listen can be so misinformed. (Robert Brault) 9347. - Describe yourself using… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9356. Friendship asks for nothing in return except maintenance. (Georges Brassens)9357. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul c… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9366. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it. (H.L. Mencken)9367. You can't keep yourself from… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9376. Women don't suffer from penis envy. Men do. (Joseph Heller)9377. Family is a good thing only if you chose it. (Daniel Pinard)9378… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9386. To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence. (Keith Haring)9387. I google, therefore I am. (Stéphane Laporte)… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9396. We prize "freedom to" so much more than "freedom from". (Ken Liu)9397. Melancholy is a sadness that rests. (Jean-Paul Daoust)9398… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9406. I have estimated the influence of Reason upon Love...it's like a raindrop on the sea. (Hafiz)9407. Architect: Someone who knows th… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9416. Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. (Joseph Campbell)9417. A cat is like a shrink. He listens not s… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9426. Cheerfulness is the nicest form of courage. (Anatole France)9427. One of the tendencies I find most troubling in contemporary cult… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9436. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Oscar Wilde)9437. This is the great mista… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9446. The teacher's job is to sell culture to customers who live under the illusion that they don't want any. (Daniel Pennac)9447. Poten… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9456. Adversaries are in the opposition, enemies are in the party. (Claude Morin)9457. The mind is a place where the soul goes to hide f… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9466. Usually, the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear. (Lucy Freeman)9467. It is from the poor people's hell t… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary: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… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9476. You can fool some of the people some of the time, the rest are fooling themselves. (Thomas McBride)9477. Life is unfair. They shou… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9486. Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Søren Kierkegaard)9487. The Chinese alphabet has more than 3,000… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9496. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. (Terry Pratchett)9497. To submit to the tyranny of inflation is… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9506. The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. (Robert Jacks… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9516. If you do kiss a politician, remember this: you are not only kissing him, you are kissing every butt that he has kissed in th… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9526. There is no past simple, the true memory speaks to the present. (Jacques Prévert)9527. You never teach a subject; you alway… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:Today, it is the 1000th edition of The Frictionary. Started on March 11, 2005, it has been published every Sunday without interruption… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9546. You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind. (Hilary De Piano)9547. Love and loverhood can only be explained by love… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9556. Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. (Jorge Luis Borges)9557. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. (Edward R. Mu… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9566. The devil is the arrogance of the mind, faith without a smile, truth never touched by doubt. (Umberto Eco)9567. - "And what would… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9576. Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that separate them. (Confucius)9577. A flower is a weed with an advertising budget. (R… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9586. Time is nothing but an immeasurable immobility along which we pass. (Gilbert Larocque)9587. Who you are is not your fault, but it… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9596. It is today that the present is éternal. (Paul Éluard)9597. Science is the record of dead religions. (Oscar Wilde)95… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9606. I believe we sense poetry like music, like love, or like friendship, or all the things in this world. The explanation comes after… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9616. Homo sapiens are animals that come in colors, not race/ race is a pôlitical animal. (Jim Culleny)9617. Birth: involuntary en… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9626. The end of man won't be the end of the world. (Daniel Bélanger)9627. The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. (G… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9636. There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. (Walter Kronkite)9637. When you are an a… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9646. Alcohol, money and we learn, power are powerful revealers of truths and ugliness. Putting your face on a poster too. (Marc S&eacut… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9656. There's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. (Michael J. Fox… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9666. The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean Paul Richter)9667. A nation… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9676. I don't think about death, but I'm sure it thinks about me. (Patrice Desbiens)9677. There are times in life when people must know… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9686. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. (Dinah Craik)9687. There is no urgen… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9696. Silence is a friend who never betrays. (Confucius)9697. Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal. (Ken Liu)9698. You're ne… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9706. If the city was a body, graffiti would tell us where it hurts. (Charles "Chaz" Bojôrquez)9707. The real challenge in journal… Read More
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9716. There are really many people that read only to be exempted from thinking. (G.C. Lichtenberg)9717. We spend our whole lives recover… Read More