Classic Comments on the Quote

[montyb]

The company we keep!

"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. "
— Euripides


fishbum on 2011-04-09 03:55:49
wont: adj. meaning accustomed or usual.

montyb on 2012-12-16 19:14:24
The company I keep is the cryptophiles of this site. Should I be concerned?

wvwoman on 2013-08-07 11:29:19
yes, montyb, very!

joma1944 on 2014-01-16 06:20:22
Monty, drop the cryptogram and slowly walk way.

montyb on 2014-08-07 15:23:49
I can't! I can't drop it! I need an intervention!

marnita on 2015-11-21 13:54:03
Well, you're not likely to get any help from us, Monty. We are all in the same boat. Birds of a feather . . . .

[wvwoman]

this one is so sweet that i couldn't resist giving it extra exposure:

"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."
— Charles Kuralt

gryhnd51 on 2012-04-01 20:00:33
He did a wonderful job proving that with his "On The Road" stories. They were always thoughtful and heart-warming.

opallady on 2013-04-06 22:39:35
Thumbs up.

abra on 2014-06-06 15:53:43
He was wonderful. He always left you feeling good.

LLapp on 2015-07-24 09:54:32
He had a beautiful vision for his message as a journalist, and he completely fulfilled it. Great American, in the truest sense.

[ddph]

Back to humor.

"There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

koham on 2009-10-31 16:40:00
I guess I spiked the bell-curve by forgetting I had this open!

haverwench on 2010-08-14 02:21:38
And also sex. Oh wait, I guess that comes under "interest."

pootie49 on 2011-06-13 12:39:37
I actually thought that meant moving men as in men who move and pack stuff for you...LOL. I would have added no money levers them. Jeesh. and Doy.

bansaisequoia on 2012-03-08 20:13:31
Laurence Olivier and Nicol Williamson are moving men when they perform Hamlet. Oh, wait. That's not what they meant, either.

abra on 2013-07-16 21:01:53
I thought what Pootie thought. Miss, you Donna.

jnoodles on 2013-07-21 01:46:11
food and sex....or sex and food......or sex then food......or TV then sex then food

universalmom on 2014-01-21 14:10:20
The food should come first

universalmom on 2014-06-15 16:16:53
(wow I must have been really hungry when I wrote that…!)

universalmom on 2014-08-28 14:45:34
…also, I wonder where all those odd characters come from??

wvwoman on 2014-09-05 12:34:00
i wonder the same thing about those characters, u-mom!

abra on 2015-05-09 11:55:13
I know there's a thread in the forum about them. I'm always thinking I should go back to try to find it. I don't remember what it said. http://www.cryptograms.org/forum/sho...hlight=symbols Pootie posted a way to fix it. I'm going to try it.

[marnita]

"Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. "
— Haitian Proverb

montyb on 2012-04-16 18:02:12
You may as well be nice to the father, also

[LLapp]

"People should always have something which they prefer to life." — Johann G. Seume

PianoManGidley on 2009-05-03 13:46:25
Like what?

Delphve on 2012-09-24 13:17:11
A commuted sentence....

[LLapp]

"Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light." — C. V. R. Thompson

wnt2ply on 2011-01-06 19:06:55
what do I do with the points?

kb77 on 2011-09-25 19:14:12
it travels faster than brain waves also it seems.

LLapp on 2014-12-16 14:21:07
wnt2ply: Nothing! I consider points an embarrassment because they show how much time I've frittered away at puzzle-solving.

skoogie2 on 2014-12-21 02:35:01
au contraire, llapp, it's time well spent and to be celebrated as brain work time!

Highpoint on 2015-02-24 12:32:12
Are the points redeemable for cash?

abra on 2015-05-17 14:58:12
Haven't you all been cashing in your points?

[LLapp]

"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it." — Bertrand Russell

torn88 on 2011-12-23 18:04:51
Judgement ... missing e?

universalmom on 2012-07-01 16:23:05
Oddly, judgement is the British spelling - which you'd expect, since Mr. Russell is British.

jnoodles on 2013-05-08 19:27:37
Shouldn't it be "an" hallucination? A just sounds wrong to me.

chopstix on 2014-03-13 05:53:24
whoa - did you just see that?

[ddph]

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission."
— Arnold Glasgow

bansaisequoia on 2012-07-30 19:21:11
Let's all go to the lobby to get some 7-Up.

locodad on 2013-04-01 02:10:17
I don't think they sell 7-UP in the theater, Maybe they should,because the sodas would be much less expensive

montyb on 2014-01-07 17:12:55

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9QAPch2o6Q

JD_1947 on 2014-12-04 02:21:37
. . I made my life a 'million' so sodas and popcorn are on me . . . ..

abra on 2015-04-18 10:47:39
My life was a million, too. Or maybe an intermillion.

cryptospiridiagram on 2016-03-01 12:18:53
This seems one of those that sacrifice meaning for quotability. sigh

[LLapp]

Just when I resolve to stop posting comments, I see this . . .

"Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do." — Samuel Johnson

bansaisequoia on 2009-11-26 15:40:51
No way. I'm an iconoclast who struts to the beat of a different drummer.

rage on 2012-02-20 10:12:27
And I'm a by-the-books government agent. Due to a clerical error, we wind up being roommates. Wackiness ensues! It's G-Man and the Rebel. Only on CBS.

[aerie]

"Just when I resolve to stop posting comments, I see this . . ."- LLapp

Please don't stop posting comments, LLapp! This amusing thread is just getting started, I hope. Thank you for creating it, and adding so many great quoted comments to it.

[ddph]

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."
— Edgar Watson Howe

fishbum on 2015-07-30 09:01:31
"The Lord alps those who alp themselves"...Groucho Marx

darkyr on 2016-04-06 08:49:32
Alp! I'm dying over here in the foothills!

[LLapp]

"Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree." — Astrid Alauda

darkyr on 2015-04-14 06:12:19
Applying some simple algebra we can see that a bowl of cherries is happiness under a shade tree without a book of poetry.

[ddph]

Another Monty gem

"After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year."
— Jack Handey

montyb on 2012-05-09 18:30:17
You can't go bone again.

gryhnd51 on 2012-09-03 04:56:04
Good luck with that, Jack.

kjmcaj on 2013-04-06 18:12:31
74 seconds

petname on 2015-03-13 06:02:40
Good grief! Why was this ever said? Just creepy to me!

universalmom on 2015-08-19 09:19:44
Monty!! Lol

Quickly on 2016-04-21 13:15:17
Monty!! Hahaha!!

[ddph]

I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute."
— Unattributed

Wolfie on 2013-09-27 15:44:44
So do I!

JenDiaz72 on 2015-04-10 08:46:39
My is the last minute after a full day of cryptograms.

LLapp on 2015-04-23 09:40:09
Uh oh. . . . but no, really, I can stop anytime I want.

[ddph]

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
— Anne Bradstreet

bvwRedux on 2012-01-13 02:26:40
If we had no fall, we wouldn't sprain our ankles.

puzzleme on 2013-04-25 07:05:35
LOL - such an unexpected comment, bvw!

dovid1946 on 2014-12-30 05:25:29
i've been down so long, it looks like up to me

wvwoman on 2015-02-11 13:46:40
love that phrase, dovid--you quoting farina or the doors?!

dovid1946 on 2015-02-23 07:52:32
I think the Doors were quoting Richard Farina, who , incidentally, was Joan Baez' inlaw.