Classic Comments on the Quote

[Toeprint]

"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.

[Toeprint]

"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.

[Toeprint]

"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

[Toeprint]

"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.

[Toeprint]

"In Louisiana we don't bet on football games. We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not."
— Mark Duffy


WRQ9
August 15, 2013, 8:16 pm
Now that's an opportunist.
dazlndanee
December 21, 2013, 12:51 pm
LOOOOVE IT!!! I wonder when did this hold true?
gryhnd51
January 4, 2014, 7:18 pm
dazindanee, my son-in-law is from New Orleans and according to him it has ALWAYS held true....and still does to this day. Louisiana politicians have been noted, and tried, for their political crimes.
gryhnd51
February 27, 2014, 7:28 pm
On another quote I commented that an ex-governor, who was indicted and jailed for fraud is going to run for a Lousiana Congressional seat this year.
Quizzical
April 22, 2014, 2:24 am
A rich tradition in LA. It is not just politicians involved in the game, either.
marnita
June 11, 2016, 5:13 pm
It is pretty much the same here in Massachusetts.
SippyGurl
November 7, 2016, 2:12 pm
live in louisiana with coon ass hubs... sadly, this is still very true
SippyGurl
December 12, 2016, 5:30 am
yah, very true. but, we do love our tigers and saints!
killdozer
March 16, 2017, 4:15 pm
I am originally from Louisiana. I remember a year where the candidates for Governor were a convicted felon named Edwin Edwards and David Duke. There were campaign signs that said, "vote for the crook. It's important." Edwins won, but it was only because the other guy was literally a Nazi. It says something about Louisiana that Wizard of the Klan could get the Republican nomination for Governor. Racism is open and casual there. A lot of my relatives use the N word like water. They love Trump now, of course,
SippyGurl
December 5, 2018, 7:41 am
hubs isn't home so i can't be certain, but he claims - and wishes - that edwards would still win if he ran today. kdozer, i bet hubs knows your people lol, he knows everyone.
DrCryptell
September 12, 2019, 1:43 am
How do you figure the point spread on an indictment bet?
Synonymous
May 25, 2020, 12:55 am
All I can say is WOW! What a comment thread. We really like New Orleans as tourist only.

[Toeprint]

"If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government."
— Barry Goldwater

montyb
July 21, 2012, 7:38 pm
As he handed this information from his big government position in Washington.
WRQ9
September 22, 2012, 7:11 pm
A holler from the hole.
WRQ9
January 6, 2013, 2:29 am
A conundrum carries wisdom like a tornado carries debris.

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"We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. "
— Henri Frederic Amiel

Unattributed
June 24, 2016, 4:40 am
For all the world is a stage in my oyster.