Classic Comments on the Quote

[Toeprint]

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."
— Don Marquis

IlLatino
November 14, 2015, 3:22 am
I found happiness this morning after a night of fitful sleep and sombre dreams. It was under the south end of my couch with my glasses. It is freakin' DARK at night in San Luis Obispo!
DrCryptell
August 16, 2019, 11:31 am
I left my happiness at my cat's funeral and forgot all about it until my hamster died. When I went looking for it - not the cat, but the happiness - , I found a bag of tears instead and now keep it under my pillow at night - not the hamster - but the bag of tears.
Wordigo
October 6, 2020, 8:49 pm
Sometimes happiness is forgiving and forgetting. The forgetting part gets easier and easier as you grow older.
Elephino
March 11, 2021, 8:25 pm
one of the most existential comment threads here on cryptograms

[Toeprint]

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time. "
— Josh Billings

pootie49
March 24, 2009, 12:09 am
and that is the truth...living proof right here
montyb
December 19, 2013, 11:44 am
AMEN! Ah Pootie, we miss ye.

[oddcouple]

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
— Epictetus

Capy
May 18, 2016, 9:09 pm
I kept trying 'implode'
darkyr
February 28, 2017, 7:01 am
I thought 'implore'
Persephone59
May 27, 2017, 12:58 pm
If you're going to implode, could you please do it outside?
montyb
June 17, 2017, 10:16 am
Content? Nope, I'm just used to it.
glassguy
October 4, 2017, 8:05 am
I Implore you to improve, not implode..
darkyr
January 16, 2018, 4:27 pm
I implored again. How foolish and stupid. But I'm improving... I think.

[montyb]

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. "
— Wayne Dyer

Annamariah
October 4, 2016, 12:48 am
If it's not promised to anyone else yet... DIBS!

SippyGurl
December 16, 2016, 1:38 pm
rip dr d

abra
February 16, 2017, 12:47 pm
LOL, Annamarriah.

[Toeprint]

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
— Andrew A. Rooney

LLapp
May 5, 2021, 12:45 am
My mother was terrified of the first computer my father bought in the late 1980s. Once I was using it in their den while she stood at the door but refused to enter; when I offered to show her what I was doing, she went pale and backed away. Weeks later, she met me at my office for lunch and I caught her off guard: I showed her the document still on my screen. "Look," I said, "let's say I really like this paragraph, but I realized it has to come later in the story. Normally, on paper, you would circle it and draw an arrow to where it should go, right?" She nodded. Then I showed her how I could cut it and paste it anywhere else in the article, right on the screen. Her eyes widened to see the deleted text reappear in a new spot. "Or," I added, "I could even paste it down here at the end, in case I don't know where to put it yet. Then I can figure it out later." Her jaw dropped, like someone had given her the gift of her dreams. She went home that day and got right on the computer, and soon she was writing a book.
Eureka
July 20, 2021, 7:42 pm
^Wow! Great story, LLapp.
LLapp
October 22, 2021, 5:32 am
Oh I like that memory. The book she wrote was a two-volume program for teaching children to play classical guitar. In 2012, her younger teaching colleagues showed up at her funeral to tell us how important that work was, and that "we all use her books -- all of us." Until they spoke that day, I had no idea that her work was so valued by her peers.

[LLapp]

Pure silliness . . .

"Peace cannot be kept by force. That can only be achieved by understanding." — Albert Einstein

jason jiujitsu
June 6, 2016, 1:53 am
Ghundi had an understanding.

maradnu
June 29, 2016, 9:13 am
Ghundi?

skeeter
April 19, 2017, 5:02 pm
Gandhi's younger brother perhaps.

blueladyblue
January 31, 2018, 1:26 pm
There's "peace," and then there's PEACE! Ghundi would understand.

spacecoyote1966
June 7, 2018, 8:55 am
Ghundi was the violent one in the family.

SippyGurl
July 29, 2018, 2:28 pm
solemn one ghundi born on a lundi

Redforce
October 12, 2018, 2:28 am
Superman never made any money Saving the world from Solemn One Ghundi

[montyb]

"Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together."
— Proverb

locodad
November 4, 2013, 1:34 am
funny

bansaisequoia
October 8, 2014, 1:01 pm
I heard fire banged gunpowder.

universalmom
March 31, 2015, 3:33 am
Hahaha bansai

maradnu
January 17, 2018, 5:28 am
Not quietly, anyhow

[Toeprint]

"In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself."
— Chris Abani

Roxanne
October 13, 2018, 12:50 am
More like scary at first. Gently swaying back and forth, wondering if the bolts that hold it to the wall are secure. Then the manager calls the cops and it gets really exciting.

[LLapp]

"The land of my fathers? My fathers can have it." — Dylan Thomas

badbob
December 23, 2019, 8:03 am
maybe he was having a bad day. which, in Welsh, is spelled fffyydllllich

Fudi
October 19, 2020, 11:54 pm
My father's bank was nice enough. They gave out lollipops.

[Toeprint]

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind - for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
— Marcus Aurelius

Annamariah
August 30, 2015, 7:34 am
This is my one of my father's favourite quotes. My older brother was named Markus after Marcus Aurelius, and he in turn named his daughter Aurelia.

[LLapp]

"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun." — Benjamin Franklin

montyb
April 22, 2012, 9:36 pm
What if your head is waxed?

bansaisequoia
April 30, 2012, 11:43 am
What if your head is whack?

montyb
June 15, 2012, 2:18 pm
Or if you're a duck and your head is quack?

[Toeprint]

"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.

[Toeprint]

"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!

[Toeprint]

"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.

[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.