I love this one, added a carriage return for easier reading.
"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."
— Alexander Pope
ernests
August 19, 2020, 4:04 am
Through twisted syntax and rhymes forc’d we grope
And thus a poet true is Alex Pope
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(You are brilliantly funny, kb83. For easier reading, I have put the comment before the quote.)
kb83
July 25, 2017, 10:04 am
There must be a name for this meter. It sounds like the 3rd, 4th, and 5th line of a limerick. How about: He got a degree from Loyola, But wished he could own a Corolla,
"If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola." — Strangers with Candy
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"Men, having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had." — Demetrius Phalereus
kb83
December 18, 2023, 12:02 pm
An ancient Greek author Phalereus, Had wisdom for those who were serious, You should not aband- on a bird in the hand, To go for a vision delirious.
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A string of fun comments, ending in a kb83 limerick:
"What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own." — Anacharsis Cloots
Allen
May 2, 2013, 11:33 am
Which Anacharsis Cloots was this?
puzzleme
August 6, 2014, 7:02 pm
An 18th century Prussian nobleman, according to Wiki.
tgreen517
January 16, 2015, 4:50 pm
I'd rather be my own chef enemy.
jimdgar
September 1, 2016, 9:35 am
That's why I never win; I'm too evenly matched.
kb83
March 13, 2020, 3:35 pm
Sometimes it is one's name.
puffybob
April 13, 2020, 12:03 am
I thought he was one of the kids from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
kb83
May 23, 2022, 1:21 pm
A young fellow named Anacharsis, Kept injuring his metatarsus, He found some new shoes, With shouts and "Woo- hoo"s (For him it was quite a catharsis.)
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"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubles joys, and cuts griefs in half." — Aristotle
darkyr
July 13, 2016, 3:29 am
When in need, talk to yourself. It will get you halfway there.
kb83
July 6, 2017, 4:10 am
It's called degriefing.
pickleball
March 24, 2019, 9:17 pm
i ve been talking to myself for years with no end in sight
LLapp
November 28, 2019, 9:44 pm
I think we are all self-talkers on this site. I post this comment knowing full well that nobody might read it for years, and that's fine.
gracefulghost
December 19, 2021, 9:52 am
LLapp, I've only been posting for like 4 months, and apparently, you're right, I've only gotten one response, and that was from someone who didn't like what I said about a third party.
Trima
November 26, 2022, 9:02 pm
So nice to meet you, Gracefulghost, It's remiss of us to leave you troubled, By careful reading of what you post, May griefs be halved, and our joys doubled.
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"Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used."
— Robert Brault
kb83
February 9, 2018, 3:07 am
A babbling blogger named Brault, Was precious and trite to a fault. What he said was unneeded, And readers all pleaded, Won't you please bring this stuff to a hault?
I love this one, LOL!!
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"Accent is the soul of language - it gives to it both feeling and truth."
— Jean Jacques Rousseau
kb83
April 1, 2022, 9:38 am
A philosopher named Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Never just guessed, he just knew so, That with his accent They knew what he meant, And so he urged others to do so.
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Originally posted by Eureka View Post"Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it." — Dr. Seuss
LLapp
September 18, 2019, 5:48 pm
I will not write for Hollywood, I would not live there if I could. I do not care for movie backlots, dog-eat-dog, or mega-jackpots.
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It's now in the midden. Joking aside, he's lucky he didn't wind up inside.
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"Perhaps the strangest thing of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes."
— Eric T. Bell
kb83
April 9, 2018, 10:29 am
A brilliant chimpanzee named Walaji Knew well algebraic topology He made a fine model Of a plant-based Klein bottle Then ate it without an apology.
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Originally posted by LLapp View Post"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves." — Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
kb83
January 2, 2019, 8:19 am
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Went for a drive in a shiny white car, ...
letfreedomring
September 16, 2019, 3:03 pm
to get to the neighborhood deli. She didn't go in, and continued her spin, going home with her still empty belly.
Amelia drove to the deli
But outside she found it too smelly,
She didn't go in,
But continued her spin,
Going home with her still empty belly.
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"You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements." — B. F. Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), an American psychologist, author, inventor, social philosopher, and poet.
kb83
January 7, 2022, 1:41 pm
A rat owned by one B. F. Skinner, Had to type poems for his dinner. But he had a hard time, Finding rat words that rhyme, And so he got thinner and thinner.
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"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." — Martin Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper (July 17, 1810 in London - November 1889 in Albury, Surrey) was an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy.
dovid1946
January 29, 2015, 10:24 am
He also was a peddler, going door to door selling his wares.
kb83
March 31, 2023, 12:07 pm
An itinerant salesman named Tupper, Oft asked if he could stay for supper, And then before partin', He'd fill up his carton, And snap shut its lower and upper.
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(My comment is a quote from a book of children's poems. Skeeter's response is her own.)
"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends." — Elbert Hubbard
LLapp
July 14, 2016, 9:07 pm
"I'm partial to the manatee, which emanates no vanity. It swims amidst anemones, and hasn't any enemies." - Jack Prelutsky
skeeter
October 22, 2017, 1:15 pm
"I'm partial to the cryptoquotes, which offer little anecdotes. They get some yes and some no votes. Their addicts find no antidotes." -- Me.
badbob
November 5, 2018, 4:10 am
nice skeeter. have you ever been to Nantucket?
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