2024-04-21 15:10
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9976. The infinite is transparent. (Octavio Paz)9977. Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live… Read More
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2024-04-14 15:25
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9966. Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end. (Stephen King)9967. Proust, is the psychology of splitt… Read More
2024-04-07 15:06
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9956. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. (Frederick Douglass)9957. Today is my birthday… Read More
2024-03-31 15:28
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9946. When the heart is full, the eyes overflow. (Sholem Aleichem)9947. Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condi… Read More
2024-03-24 15:45
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9936. One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving. (Amy Carmichael)9937. People who tell us to disobey; sh… Read More
2024-03-17 16:17
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9926. Happiness is an abstract word composed of some ideas of pleasure. (Voltaire)9927. The only cure for grief is to grieve… Read More
2024-03-10 17:16
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary: 9916. Young, we think of death without waiting for it; old, we wait for it without thinking. (Maurice Chapelan)9917. Men(...). Unab… Read More
2024-03-03 15:40
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9906. If you are against freedom of speech, you should not be allowed to say it. (Julien Tremblay)9907. Being a parent is the only… Read More
2024-02-25 16:38
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9896. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does. (Agnes Moorehead)9897. If the ability to… Read More
2024-02-18 16:05
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9886. You can't learn from mistakes if, in your view, you haven't made any. (Mardy Grothe)9887. It is very easy to write about… Read More
2024-02-11 16:54
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9876. Nobility is the mystic property of the seminal liquid. (Paul Valéry)9877. I finally got my life going in the right dir… Read More
2024-02-04 16:53
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9866. A blind obedience presupposes an extreme ignorance. (Jean-Paul Marat)9867. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you wil… Read More
2024-01-28 17:35
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9856. To understand is not to forgive. It is simply better than the alternative, which is not to understand. (Alec Nove)9857. … Read More
2024-01-21 17:09
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9846. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution. (Oscar Wilde)9847. Dreams are the literature of sleep. Even the… Read More
2024-01-14 18:13
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9836. How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? (François de La Rochefoucauld)983… Read More
2024-01-07 16:38
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9826. It's said that you only get one life. In truth, you only get one birth and one death. How many lives you squeeze in is up to… Read More
2023-12-31 19:47
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9816. How strange these days when the joy of living is programmed in calendars. (Marc Lévy)9817. Let's stop talking politics… Read More
2023-12-24 16:56
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9806. Violence on television makes you want to break everything. Except, alas, the television. (Philippe Geluck)9807. At my age, fl… Read More
2023-12-17 17:14
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9796. After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works. (Gwen Stefani)9797. Memory is the only way to st… Read More
2023-12-10 20:01
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9786. There are no insoluble problems, there are only unpleasant solutions. (Alexandra Marinina)9787. There are no words/ that make the… Read More
2023-12-03 17:24
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9776. You don't need a night cream. Ingredients do not know the time of day. (Fayne L. Frey)9777. Why do we have fewer friends as we gro… Read More
2023-11-26 17:41
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9766. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. (Albert Einstein)9767. Punctuation is not s… Read More
2023-11-19 16:45
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9756. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. (Gore Vidal)9757. Along a moonlit river/ our… Read More
2023-11-12 16:47
Free website hit counter Here is another page taken from The Frictionary9746. To invent is to discern, to choose. (Henri Poincaré)9747. It is said that "power corrupts", but actu… Read More
2023-11-05 15:52
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9736. The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. (Alexander Fleming)9737. A child upon seeing a grand mosque e… Read More
2023-10-29 14:23
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9726. Words pale and lose their flavor while pain is always new. (Cormac McCarthy)9727. The question is no longer to remake the world, b… Read More
2023-10-22 15:12
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
2023-10-15 14:45
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
2023-10-08 16:49
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
2023-10-01 15:00
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
2023-09-24 15:03
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
2023-09-17 15:18
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
2023-09-10 15:16
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
2023-09-03 14:43
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&hell…Read More
2023-08-27 15:46
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
2023-08-20 14:57
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
2023-08-13 15:00
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
2023-08-06 14:41
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
2023-07-30 15:06
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
2023-07-23 14:23
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
2023-07-16 15:16
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
2023-07-09 14:50
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
2023-07-02 15:09
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
2023-06-25 15:24
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
2023-06-18 15:11
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
2023-06-11 15:12
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
2023-06-04 15:12
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
2023-05-28 15:41
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
2023-05-21 16:15
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
2023-05-14 14:57
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
2023-05-07 15:10
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
2023-04-30 21:10
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
2023-04-30 15:37
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
2023-04-23 15:48
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
2023-04-16 15:53
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
2023-04-09 15:08
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
2023-04-02 14:55
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
2023-03-26 15:23
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
2023-03-19 14:52
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
2023-03-12 16:51
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
2023-03-05 15:44
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
2023-02-26 16:37
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
2023-02-19 16:09
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
2023-02-12 16:11
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
2023-02-05 15:59
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
2023-01-29 16:35
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
2023-01-22 16:13
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
2023-01-15 16:52
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&hell…Read More
2023-01-08 15:56
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
2022-12-25 17:05
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
2022-12-18 16:10
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
2022-12-11 16:24
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
2022-12-04 17:11
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
2022-11-27 18:34
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
2022-11-20 16:54
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
2022-11-13 15:39
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
2022-11-06 17:12
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
2022-10-30 16:42
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
2022-10-23 15:39
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
2022-10-16 15:12
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&hell…Read More
2022-10-09 15:25
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
2022-10-02 15:21
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
2022-09-25 15:43
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
2022-09-18 15:12
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
2022-09-11 14:59
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
2022-09-04 15:48
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
2022-08-28 15:46
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9126. We must not call riches things we might lose. (Leonardo da Vinci)9127. It's sad to see little kids grow up and lose all their superhero… Read More
2022-08-22 19:39
Here is another page from The Frictionary: 1046. There are three reasons for breastfeeding: the milk is always at the right temperature, it comes in attractive containers, and the cat can't… Read More
2022-08-21 14:48
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9116. The essence of wisdom is to maintain suspicion about what you want to be true. (Jon K. Hart)9117. Who teaches good to others witho… Read More
2022-08-14 15:10
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9106. The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal. (Harsha Bhogle)9107. Without money, honor is just a sickness. (Jea… Read More
2022-08-07 15:26
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9096. A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterward. (Karl Kraus)9097. The past is always present. (Maurice M… Read More
2022-07-31 14:58
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9086. Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. (R.A. Salvatore)9087. Each… Read More
2022-07-24 14:12
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9076. The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness. (Chinese proverb)9077. Politicians are like holes in Swiss cheese: the more cheese, t… Read More
2022-07-17 15:12
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary: 9066. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. (Nelson Mandela)9067. The heart doesn't have… Read More
2022-07-10 16:54
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9056. The chief qualification of a mass (authoritarian) leader has become unending infallibility, he can never admit an error. (Hannah A… Read More
2022-07-03 15:18
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9046. Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. (Thomas Merton)9047. Marriage is two people solving problems that they wouldn't have… Read More
2022-06-26 14:58
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9036. Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. (Theodore Isaac Rubin)9037. In ord… Read More
2022-06-19 14:54
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9026. A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. (Neil Gaiman)9027. Do not fear the words once you have consented to the things. (Mar… Read More
2022-06-12 15:07
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9016. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. (Bertrand Russell)9017. The flower is the poetry of r… Read More
2022-06-05 15:25
Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:9006. Mistakes are a fact of life. It is response to error that counts. (Nikki Giovanni)9007. Does God REALLY want to be everywhere? (R… Read More
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