Classic Comments on the Quote

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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. "
— Sigmund Freud

montyb
January 6, 2014, 10:04 am
Nevertheless, the carbon footprint of either process is pretty high.
Quizzical
June 19, 2014, 4:19 pm
I guess in the Middle Ages he would have been an actual carbon footprint.

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"The coming together of two laudable movements - death with dignity and cost containment - concerns me. Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die?"
— Mark Siegler


maradnu
December 28, 2010, 9:56 pm
Why don't you ask the insurance companies that do all in their power to limit their expenses - patients be damned
pootie49
May 31, 2011, 2:55 pm
its incredibly hard to die with dignity. i can attest to that first hand right now. you have to fight for every last ounce of it. the health care system wants to put you in a hospital and refer to you as the ovarian cancer in bed three...I prefer to be known as Donna. I choose to die with dignity. At home. With loved ones. Is it a duty? I believe thats a personal choice. In my case, yes. My duty is die the way I lived...not having choices made for me. Not being a bed number but a human being.
puzzleme
August 30, 2012, 11:59 pm
pootie - Donna - you have much dignity here. I send you my humble good wishes.
fishbum
September 9, 2012, 6:00 pm
Here, here.
saipanwriter
September 21, 2012, 11:20 am
wishing you well, pootie.
abra
July 7, 2013, 6:06 am
Donna had so much dignity so much grace against such a horrible disease. Miss you Pootie.
wvwoman
January 30, 2014, 5:08 pm
this is the first time i've seen this comment from pootie--bless her heart. and bless her soul for eternity.
LLapp
January 31, 2015, 1:27 pm
I found this site quite a while after Donna died, but I have come to know her a bit through her comments. There was one about the joy and peace of having a true loving partner in life that brought tears to my eyes, as does this thread.
Lily H
August 13, 2015, 6:03 pm
Donna, you were a such very good friend to me, and I miss you so much. The site is not the same without your humour. (That's how she would have spelled it.) RIP dear lady.
jimdgar
July 15, 2016, 11:07 am
Donna was such a big part of this board and her wit and charm always livened things up. I miss her.
Persephone59
April 16, 2017, 9:21 pm
I have read little snippets from Pootie, too, and I knew she passed away, but what she wrote here truly brought tears to my eyes. I hope she passed peacefully at home.
oddcouple
December 7, 2019, 5:54 pm
Wow! Just read Pootie's post and all I can say is Wpw!
CarpeLanam
October 26, 2020, 12:53 pm
Aw, Pootie! We miss you!

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"It's never too late to have a happy childhood. "
— Tom Robbins

marnita
July 18, 2014, 8:53 am
I hope he's right - I'm learning to ride a bike at age 71.
LLapp
November 15, 2014, 5:39 pm
I just bought myself an adult tricycle for my 58th birthday. The little girl across the street dropped her mom's mail all over the sidewalk when she saw me fly by.

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"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting."
— Mark Twain

irisheyes
April 18, 2014, 5:37 am
My aunts wouldn't even realize the irony in this. Christmas dinner is so loud that some of us have started wearing earplugs.
jval
May 1, 2015, 4:48 pm
Some people orate, some converse, some joyously interrupt each other constantly.
NotTooOld
February 11, 2017, 11:56 pm
My dad once recorded Thanksgiving dinner for some reason. Only when we listened to the tape later did we hear my grandfather quietly telling a long story underneath everyone else's random, loud and overlapping talk.

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"No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate."
— H.L. Mencken

skeeter
February 5, 2018, 10:58 am
There once was a writer named Mencken / Who sometimes wrote things that were stinkin'. / Quite often he's quoted / And many have noted / "Oh, what could this guy have been thinkin'?"

[LLapp]

"Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw." — Ambrose Bierce

abra
May 8, 2013, 12:31 am
BOX!!!

pj48
January 15, 2015, 3:58 am
Dice! I had dime!

LLapp
March 20, 2015, 12:21 am
mob sox BOX!

SwampySox
June 3, 2016, 9:13 pm
lice mice dice YAY

QuexUl
June 23, 2016, 1:33 am
Problem is, we were all raised reading Dr. Seuss...

BoggyBoots
January 30, 2017, 4:38 pm
Nope Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot & Puff.

skeeter
July 19, 2017, 9:53 am
Look, Sally, Look! See Skeeter's score. Ha, said Dick. Ha-ha, said Jane.

[Eureka]

"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."
— Frederick Buechner

montyb
August 14, 2017, 2:01 am
Okay, I've only done 4 or 5 puzzles today, but three of them had the word "experience" in them -- thankfully.

montyb
February 25, 2018, 12:42 pm
And if that isn't coincidence enough, this is my third puzzle in a row today that used the word "human".

badbob
June 13, 2018, 4:45 am
montyb, it's all part of the human experience

[LLapp]

"'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain." — Walter Dwight

LLapp
December 9, 2016, 9:54 am
Oooh, I tied the record.

imported_bees
August 10, 2020, 9:03 pm
Pot of boiling frogs, simmer for 4 years then throw out the stew.

jbb33054
August 21, 2020, 6:19 am
103

Roxanne
December 6, 2020, 8:47 pm
That's the quickie method if you are using pre-boiled frogs.

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

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

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"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
— Burt Bacharach

montyb
April 30, 2018, 3:18 am
Liquid precipitation keeps plummeting on my cranium.
kb83
January 18, 2021, 2:22 pm
What the terrestrial habitat requires contemporaneously is, endearment, honeyed endearment.
montyb
May 9, 2021, 8:35 am
A triad of visually-impaired rodents. A triad of visually-impaired rodents. Observe how they ambulate. Observe how they ambulate.

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"Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat. "
— Napoleon Hill

mikehallbackhoe
January 30, 2015, 7:30 am
the moral of the story is never lend anyone your hat

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"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. "
— Mark Twain

GtrZan
September 1, 2016, 5:42 am
my wife texted me at work just last week... "Help! Heavy metal guitar in the basement, Hungarian Dance violin upstairs, and me in the middle!" with a frowny face. My reply, "sing it with me now, 'You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this ba-aack'" Her reply? "Yeah, I know"

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"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. "
— H.L. Mencken

Barnabas
August 26, 2015, 12:49 pm
I walked into a nursing home one night (2 AM-ish), to respond to the death of a resident. Most of the occupants were sleeping as I came in with my stretcher. But one was up, and she was just hanging out with the nursing home staff in the main lobby. She was in a wheelchair, her head kind of hanging down, but she saw me, saw my stretcher, and turned to the nurse standing nearby and said, "Your ride is here."

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"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

universalmom
April 18, 2012, 7:50 pm
Yup, that's why my husband calls me beautiful
montyb
July 6, 2012, 12:28 pm
And my wife calls me handsome.
wvwoman
April 21, 2013, 11:40 pm
and bless them, for seeing all the "beautiful" in you---that's the wonderful thing about love, eh?!
montyb
November 2, 2013, 9:13 am
You betcha, wvwoman.
munchlet
June 9, 2017, 5:30 am
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
susanith
June 29, 2017, 10:38 am
Unfortunately, the eye usually wins out over the heart.
blueladyblue
February 5, 2018, 9:19 am
Love is blind for the first five to seven years, then suddenly the fog is lifted. Hopefully, you still love what you see.
LLapp
April 19, 2019, 6:43 am
universalmom and I have met a couple of times (she lives not far from me), and I'm here to tell you that she really is quite beautiful.
writeon
June 23, 2020, 3:30 am
LLapp, That's a lovely and vulnerable thing to share with your puzzling family (I mean that in a good way!) Apparently, your heart has 20/20 vision.

[LLapp]

"Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions." — Russell G. Alexander

opallady
August 1, 2015, 8:44 am
Yes, but a gentleman wouldn't mention it.

badbob
July 3, 2016, 10:38 pm
he is talking about my waistline

Baylor Bears
June 16, 2020, 4:30 am
badbob, reread opallady's comment.