A Tribute to abra a collection of her comments

[Eureka]

(The comments abra left about WRQ9 always made me smile.)

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. " — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

WRQ9
June 9, 2013, 5:21 pm
This is the sort of necessary ambiguity that returns the appearance of reason to the arsenal of abject cruelty.

abra
June 15, 2020, 10:58 pm
I do miss WRQ9. That was one of his most splendid examples. He gave that jar of words a really good shake. I really do miss him though. He was never snarky or mean.

[Synonymous]

"True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility."
— Bryant H. McGill


Comments on this Puzzle:
abra
September 5, 2018, 2:19 pm
Born with a silver Thesaurus in his mouth.
jimbo42
November 1, 2018, 10:15 am
this quote should end up solved in very few seconds by a well known solver
CryptoB
February 1, 2019, 11:18 am
Love it, abra
LLapp
March 25, 2019, 12:08 am
Silver Thesaurus - hahaha, I want one!
skeeter
March 30, 2019, 8:29 pm
One of your best, abra.
puffybob
December 18, 2019, 4:39 am
I think McGill stole this from WRQ9
rasbury
July 15, 2020, 11:42 pm
I wonder if that works for him as a pick-up line.
kb83
February 4, 2021, 10:36 am
this quote makes me reminiscent about my luminescent and fluorescent years as an adolescent,
skeeter
April 28, 2022, 3:11 am
And still funny, abra.
hrossa
January 14, 2023, 11:59 am
Still funny, and she is sorely missed.

[LLapp]

"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part." — Richard Feynman

LLapp
October 6, 2018, 9:16 pm
Science is a never-ending question. The mindset that believes uncertainty is proof of weakness completely misses the value and the role of science.

pickleball
May 11, 2019, 3:24 pm
who amongst us had to cut up a frog in science

Eureka
July 18, 2019, 8:26 pm
I did, pickleball. I still remember the smell of the formaldehyde.

abra
September 15, 2019, 2:37 am
I did. I also had the really good looking, Harvard grad teacher, grab my hand and Make me touch the worm. I took Natural Science and Biology one. I will never have a speck of the love for science so many of you have. If I had gone on I probably would have blown up the Chemistry Lab.

LLapp
February 3, 2020, 4:43 am
Abra, that was great.

[hrossa]

"Cheerfulness, sir, is the principal ingredient in the composition of health." — Arthur Murphy

abra
July 16, 2018, 12:25 pm
Brand new puzzle. My 25 seconds beats a 150 second guest record. Thanks for adding new quotes, Stephen.

Fudi
August 5, 2018, 2:50 pm
Abra - you've still got this one at 25 seconds. I'm 10 seconds behind you at 35.

nanrich
August 7, 2018, 6:32 am
Sorry Abra. But you can get it back.

abra
September 7, 2018, 6:48 pm
nanrich, if you have been here, I absolutely can not get it back. I bow to your greatness. And I am humbled that you spoke to me. o)

Eureka
August 8, 2019, 1:44 pm
Getting a comment from nanrich is quite an accomplishment, abra! I'd say it ranks right up there with seeing the Baron!

[Eureka]

"Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men." — Fay Weldon

abra
January 22, 2018, 3:35 pm
I disagree with the quote. It may be true for some women but not all. I can't imagine that I would be very happy without someone to share my life with. In my case that would be a man. My husband and son and his family are relevant to my happiness.

[Eureka]

"You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway." — Robert Brault

iltquilt
September 14, 2012, 12:21 am
I never had to "try" to be a mother; do men truly have to "try" to be fathers? Come on. This guy is so corny.

jnoodles
May 23, 2013, 10:16 am
Yes. Clearly they absolutely do. Quite apqrt from this man's alleged corniness. Fathers live with the sure knowledge that their children may become the stepchildren of another man any day and do not have the sort of bioslogic bond that women do. Conscious effort is required. My Dad didn't do it. Many don't. It is a simple truth. There are women out there like this as well. Just fewer.

abra
September 11, 2017, 2:42 pm
My husband is an excellent father now, and when our son was growing up. I'm sure the specter of a step-father never crossed his mind, nor did he have any doubt about paternity. I really hope that he is in the majority. It's so sad otherwise.

[LLapp]

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." — Marcel Proust

silveryaspen
June 30, 2009, 2:29 pm
lovely thought .... and such people are lovely to be around

montyb
September 17, 2013, 11:47 am
How fortunate to be married to one such person.

wvwoman
March 29, 2014, 8:58 pm
oh, monty, that's so sweet!

Quizzical
June 9, 2014, 1:36 pm
Happy for you, Monty. I am too.

abra
May 12, 2015, 9:56 am
Lovely quote.

abra
March 22, 2016, 7:38 am
We just had our St. Patrick's Day corned beef dinner, with our son's family. I truly am grateful to them for making me happy. My grandsons are wonderful kids.

[Eureka]

"A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine." — Mignon McLaughlin

BrainCellKeeper
January 17, 2015, 3:34 pm
I don't need to feel like a heroine; this is a load of bull.

abra
May 21, 2015, 2:11 pm
Okay, we'll start a list. All women who don't need to feel like a heroine, feel free to sign :0) I've never given it any thought, but I don't mind it.

LLapp
January 4, 2018, 3:12 pm
I like feeling like a heroine, like I made all the difference for him -- and the truth is he and I both know I did. And he likes quietly feeling like a hero, like he changed my life forever for the good -- and the truth is he and I both know he did. And then we lived happily ever after, and the night and the morning were the next day, when came the coffee brewing and we began again.

montyb
January 10, 2020, 9:51 am
I tried to make my wife feel like a heroine, but she refused to wear the Wonder Woman costume.

abra
April 29, 2020, 1:59 am
I know that I'm my husband's hero. Because he's told me so many times. So BrainCellKeeper, do you want to reconsider. Being a heroine is fun, but there's no right answer.

[Eureka]

"More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good." — Linda Sunshine

abra
July 18, 2018, 6:42 pm
I guess I used to rat out my sisters to my mom, but I would never have ratted them out to Santa.

contessawin22
February 9, 2021, 7:06 am
Well, abra, you had your priorities right!!!

[Eureka]

"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars." — Bruce Willis


abra
February 2, 2018, 6:16 pm
Looks like its a win-win for the guys team.

[LLapp]

"If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery from others would not harm us." — Proverb

marnita
July 1, 2017, 2:02 pm
If I did not flatter myself, no one would.

abra
December 8, 2018, 5:55 pm
Do you know, even though we disagree about so much, and my commas make you shiver, I think flattering things about you all the time?

[LLapp]

"To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach." — Demosthenes

Eureka
December 17, 2020, 7:27 pm
Remember that time I drove you to the airport, Demosthenes, during rush hour In a blizzard?

Fudi
October 24, 2021, 12:13 pm
Demosthenes: I do, Eureka. There was that one hairpin turn that you took kind of fast. That was a good turn. Exciting. Made me feel alive. Thanks!

abra
November 18, 2021, 2:09 am
Oh, sure, Demo, you remember Eureka driving you to the airport, but who was it who loaded up the truck and helped you to move across Athens? You didn't even spring for McGyros.

[LLapp]

"All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men." — Mignon McLaughlin

maradnu
December 23, 2016, 3:09 pm
Probationary would be conditional upon good behavior, and subject to withdrawal upon bad behavior.

abra
April 24, 2021, 10:58 pm
I never loved my husband probationally and I never felt like I was on probation. I guess after all these years we're both slightly exhilarated.

Eureka
March 4, 2022, 2:14 am
Your comments about your marriage always delight me, abra.

[Eureka]

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family." — Mother Teresa

marnita
September 3, 2018, 8:32 am
There are some smiles that can light up an entire room. There are others that just make you want to slap it off that face.

abra
September 27, 2018, 4:56 pm
^ Political smiles do that, and it doesn't matter which side they're on.

Wordigo
June 30, 2020, 2:27 pm
^Which political side, or which side of the face, they are on?

abra
August 25, 2020, 10:06 pm
In the case that was a serious question. I mean a smile from a politician, regardless of party. One of things I hate about the masks is when I catch someone's eye as they pass I always smile. Now they can't tell if I'm smiling or just staring at them.

mistyswiss
September 17, 2020, 8:33 pm
abra, it called a "smize." (link) Based on some of the comments you leave on this site, I'm guessing folks know you are smiling even with a mask on!

[LLapp]

"Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool - it will be all one a hundred years hence." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

abra
July 30, 2014, 4:22 pm
Emerson said "keep cool"? Whoda thunk it?

universalmom
January 3, 2016, 11:08 am
Who knew he was a Beat poet after all?

kb83
January 24, 2018, 3:10 am
This was Emerson, but he was not expressing his own thought, but describing that of a skeptic. It occurs in the work "Representative Men: Seven Lectures", and it is in the fourth entitled: "Montaigne: or the Skeptic" (link)

abra
January 29, 2018, 1:22 pm
Montaigne? Our Michel de Montaigne? He said ''be cool''? Even weirder.

SippyGurl
November 30, 2018, 3:48 am
got a rocket in your pocket...

LLapp
December 23, 2021, 9:28 pm
SippyGurl nailed it. The correct quote was "Keep cool -- from your first cigarette to your last dying day."

abra
November 30, 2022, 1:46 am
My son uses the Jet Song to explain being a Cub fan. We're back to having to explain.