Classic Comments on the Quote

[ddph]

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. "
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Well! That was simple!

marnita on 2014-06-17 14:11:32
Not.

JD_1947 on 2014-12-07 10:27:31
. . sounds just a tad bit simplistic for me . . . 83 seconds

maradnu on 2015-01-30 06:53:28
That's too complicated

mazereeuw on 2015-02-04 11:24:20
There seems to have been a time in the 1800's when "simplicity" was a concept tied closely to morality.

JenDiaz72 on 2015-05-15 08:15:57
K.I.S.S.

tgreen517 on 2015-10-28 17:44:05
Okay- but sometimes its complicated.

[gryhnd51]

"At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable."

— Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

saipanwriter on 2015-01-03 23:31:08
I always wonder how a quote can have two authors...

montyb on 2015-12-24 15:30:26
One for consonants, one for vowels.

[ddph]

"I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. "
— Samuel Johnson

maradnu on 2009-04-11 17:01:02
Anyone for lawyer jokes?

opallady on 2010-12-16 20:57:09
Why don't sharks bit lawyers when they go swimming? Professional courtesy.

reader4 on 2011-09-22 17:30:25
What do you call ten million lawyers buried head-down up to their waists on the bottom of the ocean? A good start.

marnita on 2014-10-01 17:46:35
What is the difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? The snake has skid marks in front of it.

kb83 on 2015-07-15 03:57:11
Does me mean that, knowing he is an attorney, he knows he deserves it, or that he is loath to speak ill, knowing he might be an attorney?

IvyChilde on 2015-07-15 05:27:46
Why do they bury lawyers 12 feet under? Because deep down, they're really nice people.

Taxnerd on 2016-04-20 13:23:08
What is the difference between an accountant and an attorney? The accountant knows he's boring.

[ddph]

"The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen."
— Roy E. Moody

a little bit on 2013-01-03 21:11:35
maybe thats why not very many people get motivated!!- because no one really listens!! Their more worried about talking

Allen on 2013-07-28 15:47:44
Sorry, what was that again?

[ddph]

"Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end."
— Henri de Montherlant

WRQ9 on 2012-03-12 16:03:28
Nice guy, eh?

abra on 2014-02-01 08:29:38
Wow! So glad he's not in my family.

montyb on 2014-02-17 12:12:37
Tell me about it. I have to invite him for Christmas every year.

JenDiaz72 on 2014-09-24 06:28:35
LOL Montyb

[ddph]

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
— Carl Sandburg

Barnabas on 2011-05-12 17:45:11
Neil Armstrong had an up-close and personal interview with it.

skoogie2 on 2013-08-16 01:58:47
I really like this image.

debzhaus on 2016-04-06 10:48:10
Buzz Aldrin: I'm sorry if I've disappointed you. Would you like to yell at the moon with Buzz Aldrin? Liz: Yes, please. Buzz Aldrin: I own you! Liz: You dumb moon! Buzz Aldrin: I walked on your face! Liz: Don't you know it's day? Idiot!

[LLapp]

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
— Carl Sandburg

Barnabas on 2011-05-12 17:45:11
Neil Armstrong had an up-close and personal interview with it.

skoogie2 on 2013-08-16 01:58:47
I really like this image.

debzhaus on 2016-04-06 10:48:10
Buzz Aldrin: I'm sorry if I've disappointed you. Would you like to yell at the moon with Buzz Aldrin? Liz: Yes, please. Buzz Aldrin: I own you! Liz: You dumb moon! Buzz Aldrin: I walked on your face! Liz: Don't you know it's day? Idiot!

Whoa . . . I've never seen this one, and I have no idea what the Buzz Aldrin thing is about. Can anyone help me? Is it explainable?

[montyb]

A Classic of Classics!

"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. "
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Barnabas on 2015-08-03 10:06:54
My first wife was Joy Jones, and she was the most emasculating creature that ever walked the earth. My second wife was Joy Smith. All she knew how to do was spend money. Then there was Joy Wilson. Don't even get me started on her...

[ddph]

Llapp. Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Literally. He was second after Neil Armstrong's famous step.

[aerie]

another one from Barnabas

"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door."
— Saul Bellow


Barnabas on 2015-06-10 08:55:01
If a wolf came to my door, I'd kind of hope that it actually is the "wolf of insignificance." Not much of a howl, probably has bad teeth, lame legs. I'd give him a doggie treat, a pat on the head, and send him on his way.

[aerie]

"Where ambition ends happiness begins. "
— Unattributed

LLapp on 2015-02-10 19:06:27
Nice slogan for retirement.

dovid1946 on 2015-02-27 03:31:02
Macbeth had it all- Thane of Cawdor, King- but was he happy? NO

LLapp on 2015-09-01 09:46:25
david, that may be the most succinct essay on Macbeth I've ever seen.

[ddph]

"Nature is God's greatest evangelist."
— Jonathan Edwards

mumu on 2012-04-23 15:56:25
I can forgive him, since he was living in the pre-Darwin era.

debzhaus on 2012-09-13 02:39:32
That's big of you.

locodad on 2013-03-09 20:58:06
I wonder who created darwin? Even though looked like a monkey God created him, without insulting the monkeys that God created

chopstix on 2013-09-07 13:41:08
From what I've gathered, Darwin's mother and father created him. p.s. I rather like this quote.

Roxanne on 2015-12-05 07:51:47
Few people know that Darwin's favorite meal was a pile of ants that his mother had poked out of their nest using a stick as a rudimentary tool.

[ddph]

"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. "
— Simone Weil

dovid1946 on 2015-02-24 10:12:33
she needs a makeover. aren't there any better pictures of her around? if not, this one should be deleted.

tjsrc on 2015-03-27 02:23:50
There are better pictures! Where she looks quite pretty actually. Why use this one where she looks like a crazy cat lady, I don't know.

marnita on 2016-01-03 06:34:26
Speaking as a crazy cat lady, I resent that comment.

[ddph]

"Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all." -Theodore Isaac Rubin

a little bit on 2013-01-01 02:33:01
The hardest person to show compassion to is your self!!

montyb on 2013-08-18 12:29:00
What! I was 2 seconds below average? What a worthless piece of moronity I am!

montyb on 2014-02-07 04:19:26
Now 34 seconds below average! I have sunk even lower.

JD_1947 on 2014-11-25 16:01:45
. . love of thyself is the hardest . . . I believe . . .

wvwoman on 2015-10-04 18:50:21
moronity--i love it!!

[ddph]

"The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason."
— Immanuel Kant

abra on 2013-06-12 00:42:21
I just got this one twice in a row.

LLapp on 2014-09-05 18:08:20
So much for the limits of reason.

ruxpin66 on 2015-06-23 12:01:16
Now that I deciphered it, I need to decipher it.

LLapp on 2016-01-08 17:25:11
ruxpin, thanks for the guffaw!