Classic Comments on the Quote

[Toeprint]

"Conversation is the slowest form of human communication."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
May 30, 2012, 7:48 pm
I think semaphore, smoke signals and Pictionary are probably a little slower.
blueladyblue
July 17, 2019, 6:29 pm
I prefer mental telepathy myself.
kahvecowgirl
August 19, 2019, 3:03 pm
Really? What about leaving comments on a thread that you only get back to randomly--maybe in year or so, or maybe never--to find out how people responded to what you said?
abra
November 14, 2019, 5:47 pm
kahvecowgirl is definitely the winner. When I first came to this site, it always made me think of putting a message in a bottle.

[Eureka]

"Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it."
— Karol Newlin

LLapp
December 17, 2015, 11:29 am
Everything / population / popularity -- I wonder how many other words fit that letter pattern.

kb83
March 11, 2016, 8:35 am
thanks, LLapp, I had the same crypto-question. I automatically filled in 'everything' only to be horrified by how the quote was filling in.

mmfs83
January 21, 2017, 6:21 am
I did the same thing...everything/population etc. But I feel good knowing that I'm with the "smarts" crowd.

kb83
May 24, 2018, 10:54 am
Well, I guess we've learned that popularity isn't everything!

LLapp
October 22, 2018, 1:37 pm
HAHA!

[LLapp]

Another spontaneous limerick from kb83. I added limerick line breaks.
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"What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are." — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

puzzleme
June 24, 2013, 2:42 am
If they outwit us, they ARE cleverer than we are.

YorkiesRule
September 29, 2014, 12:31 am
My dog outwits me all the time, but I'm not bitter - I know she's cleverer than I am

Hash
December 7, 2014, 5:14 am
Yikes, Puzzleme! You are too clever to be outwitted!

wordfairy
June 3, 2015, 3:08 am
Priceless! Once again, the comments are better than the quote.

abra
December 16, 2016, 2:33 pm
Well, yeah!

LLapp
April 10, 2017, 4:27 pm
No wonder Francois is so bitter against us.

Capy
June 8, 2017, 9:18 pm
I was taught 'more clever' not 'cleverer'

kb83
June 14, 2017, 3:04 am
When climbing up Mount Everest,
Climb only with the cleverest
Who've gone before,
Ten times or more,
But never with the neverest.

[LLapp]

Eureka, thank you for posting this one! No, I never did get back to that quote.
Gosh, I'm so humbled . . . . and I can't find the speech I wrote . . . . and I don't have my reading glasses . . .
And I'll take a copy of Munchlet's book too. This is wonderful.

[Eureka]

And if Roxanne ever publishes a book, I'm buying it sight unseen.

[Eureka]

(In case LLapp does not get back to this puzzle)

"I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me."
— Justin Bieber

LLapp
January 4, 2019, 2:16 pm
I would like a trophy for not saying something political here. Thank you.

Roxanne
February 24, 2019, 10:59 am
And now, folks, it's time for a special award. LLapp, please come up to the podium, if you would. Is she in the audience? I don't see her. Oh, there she is! Yes, I see her in the back, she's making her way down the aisle now. Folks, for those of you who are listening at home, I'm sorry you can't see this scene before me. There's abra blowing LLapp a kiss, and montyb giving a jaunty salute in her direction as LLapp comes toward the stage. And here she is, shaking hands with maradnu and gryhnd51 as she comes forward. Please, folks, please, let's have a little quiet here, let's settle down ... shh, shh.... LLapp, on behalf of the Cryptograms Commentators Committee of the Smartass Solvers Society, may I present you with this Trophy for Not Saying Something Political. Folks, listen to that cheering. Cameras are flashing and confetti is raining down -- wait, it's not ordinary confetti, it's thousands of Oxford commas in the air around LLapp as she holds the trophy high. What athleticism! That trophy's gotta weigh 35 pounds there, and she hoists it in one hand like it's nothing. Wow, her cross-training with, I'm told, Fowler's Modern English Usage and the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, has really paid off! Amazing!

abra
October 12, 2019, 3:20 am
So funny, Roxanne.

montyb
February 8, 2020, 4:49 pm
Woo hoo! I’m a member of the CCCSSS! Well done LLapp and Roxanne.

munchlet
June 27, 2020, 5:18 pm
Gotta love those Oxford commas.

[Synonymous]

abra, I don't think it will help him at this point. We can start a Go Fund Me page to have his casket moved from Argentina to Italy. He was born in Conflenti, Italy.

[LLapp]

"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy." — Bertrand Russell

abra
September 15, 2020, 1:39 am
I think I'll start a GoFundMe to send Antonio Porchia to Italy.

[lvoyster]

Puzzleme, is that a pairity argument?

[skeeter]

I completely agree. These words wafted over me all night long last night, the beauty of it is so strong. I am so glad Pootie wrote this and that Montyb posted it.

[LLapp]

Montyb, thank you for posting that beautiful, wise, healing comment from Pootie. It melts my heart every time I read it.

[montyb]

I don’t know if this has already been posted, but one night when my wife was away visiting a friend I found Pootie’s comment comforting. I have edited out all subsequent comments (including my own) because ... well, just because.

"How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with."
— Charles Dickens

pootie49
June 11, 2011, 2:31 pm
I agree. Someone to sit on a bench in the garden with after a long day, and just watch the sun set and talk about your day, your dreams, your hopes. then he takes your hand and says lets go inside its late and you stand up and hold each other and think yes this is how it should be. my friend, my lover, my confessor, my hope and my future. an equal. whom you look at and without a doubt in your mind think, i love this man and he loves me...what else do we really need? that complete feeling of belonging.

[LLapp]

"One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious." — Chateaubriand

oddcouple
August 11, 2013, 1:31 pm
Yum! I wish I had a little chateaubriand on my table right now!

locodad
April 26, 2014, 3:48 pm
I don't taste anything that I can't spell

universalmom
September 21, 2014, 2:38 pm
not even the odd hors d'oeuvre?

puzzleme
October 6, 2014, 7:16 pm
I eat only even hors d'oeuvres.

[montyb]

Vintage38 gets the first and last word!

"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
— Calvin Coolidge

vintage38
October 9, 2018, 6:26 am
68 seconds

Elephino
October 12, 2018, 12:26 pm
Say that again?

montyb
October 17, 2018, 2:23 am
Vintage38 said, "68 seconds."

vintage38
March 21, 2021, 2:47 pm
Shouldn't have said anything.

[LLapp]

"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead." — Edith Wharton

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badbob
August 23, 2017, 9:58 am
Margaret Hamilton wants her hat back.

Wordigo
October 9, 2020, 10:07 pm
She is still paying for the hat.