Classic Comments on the Quote

[ddph]

"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
— Dolley Madison

montyb on 2012-05-24 17:42:36
So why are you in just about every other kitchen or pantry in America?

universalmom on 2012-07-01 00:59:47
Haha...hiding out & eavesdropping?

abra on 2014-01-27 13:34:57
No bio for Dolley Madison?

oddcouple on 2016-01-23 17:11:49
Dolley Madison was the wife of James Madison, fourth president of the US

[aerie]

Rouge elephants

"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
— D.H. Lawrence

abra on 2011-06-24 19:07:47
I'm not too crazy about snakes, rats,, rougue elephants, lions, tigers and bears either. For that matter,if I don't know a dog I fear it too. David was much braver than I, but he had a point about mankind.

universalmom on 2012-02-11 23:22:18
Elephants? Oh okay, rogue elephants!

bansaisequoia on 2013-05-19 04:29:05
I've never seen rouge elephants, but sometimes I see pink elephants. And I could swear I saw a singing purple dinosaur on TV.

crypto-yes on 2014-05-17 11:11:24
me too! Barney!

LLapp on 2015-02-24 15:34:23
Lawrence was a fine writer but a lousy zoologist. Fear is a primal instinct, rampant in the animal kingdom.

marnita on 2016-03-06 07:50:16
Yes, but I think he was saying man is the only one that really needs to be feared. From the point of view of the planet, he was certainly right.

[aerie]

"The female of the species is more deadly than the male."
— Rudyard Kipling

maradnu on 2011-04-01 00:39:41
It may be a good thing Kipling is dead, because I know some women who would kill him for this remark.

matarisa on 2011-06-07 17:52:05
"Nuff said.

cryptoounce on 2012-11-14 23:55:51
I am indebted to Col. Mustard (Martin Mull) in the movie Clue for solving this one. Which is a sad statement on my own literacy.

jstrider on 2013-09-26 10:21:41
Amen Kipling! For married women, it's called make-up. To young single women, it's called War-Paint.

Lurker on 2014-02-03 13:15:39
Lol cryptoounce, that's where I heard it too! Love that movie.

dovid1946 on 2014-12-26 17:09:18
i can't believe that the success rate is so low ( 20.9%) It is a well-known quote, even if people may attribute it to Col. Mustard

tgreen517 on 2016-01-24 19:09:20
He doesn't say what species.

CCCookie on 2016-05-02 23:07:27
The female of EVERY species is more dangerous than the males of that species. Just threaten my children, family, home, and see. I may not be STRONGER that the males, but put me and others like me together and you'd be appalled what we can accomplish. There are reasons that some human males go to great lengths to keep women separated from other women. LOL

[montyb]

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. "
— J. B. Priestley

gryhnd51 on 2012-07-03 04:47:37
You don't necessarily have to have your own children to know how true this is. Much easier to borrow a child from a sibling, or a friend or neighbor. I just loved giving my nephew that drum set !!

[universalmom]

My daily chuckle from monty!

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. "
— Sigmund Freud

montyb on 2012-05-29 13:18:03
The only thing I exercise these days is caution.

mazereeuw on 2015-01-18 14:29:17
Good for your waistline, eh Monty?

montyb on 2015-07-01 17:15:10
I'll say! I haven't tripped over it for several months now.

[universalmom]

...and a second one, equally classic! monty, how do you come up with these??

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."
— John Donne

montyb on 2014-09-12 14:42:59
Seems like a roundabout way of asking a girl to go fishing.

[LLapp]

"There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine." — P. G. Wodehouse

mikehallbackhoe on 2015-01-28 09:03:59
I can only imagine how relieved the french were when hair dye became available

[montyb]

My laugh for the day.

"Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me - I've ducked it like root canal."
— Andrew Schneider

universalmom on 2014-02-08 02:30:38
Gosh darn it...I really wish I could marry a guy like him :P

[ddph]

"The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows."
— P. G. Wodehouse

Those butterflies are real party animals. And they're always blasting Heart's "Dog And Butterfly" from the speakers of their tricked out vehicles as they go to keggers and raves. Not to mention Elton John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight."

vivian1874 on 2012-04-28 04:30:08
hahaha!

montyb on 2012-12-16 21:12:04
I can attest to those loquaciuos lepidopterans. They stay quiet until you complete your back swing. Then they cut loose.

abra on 2014-02-14 09:59:46
Do they really have a fondness for Elton John? I never knew that.

dovid1946 on 2015-01-06 09:30:40
golf- a good walk spoiled- mark twain

Vienna on 2015-08-30 16:10:29
I think golf would be more fun with a little rock and roll

[ddph]

"No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. "
— Marguerite Duras

bansaisequoia on 2011-08-16 01:08:46
Once, I was so drunk, I thought I was the Poet Laureate of the Florida Keys. Another time, I was so wrecked, I performed a Rant in E Minor.

universalmom on 2012-02-11 21:09:12
They say marijuana works too

wvwoman on 2012-12-02 05:03:16
oh, it works!

Kgun5 on 2013-03-11 12:22:03
I concur with wvwoman...

Barnabas on 2014-04-26 06:24:36
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than have a full frontal lobotomy.

jason jiujitsu on 2014-09-24 09:54:44
With a name like Marguerite, she would know.

LLapp on 2014-10-19 09:15:50
Also coffee.

abra on 2014-12-02 11:50:40
Not coffee, it doesn't work for me, just makes me shaky. I hate that feeling. I've never tried pot. I do agree with the quote. Alcohol can make you feel quite the genius.

[ddph]

"A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children."
— David Brenner

octopunchy on 2012-11-19 18:50:17
Which is why I only eat babies that have been neutered.

nevadasmith68 on 2013-08-14 16:03:46
Vegetables have children. They're called seeds.

bansaisequoia on 2014-10-08 13:04:31
I eat baby carrots.

LLapp on 2015-05-13 11:35:05
Brenner's a funny guy, but he must have flunked botany.

dovid1946 on 2015-05-23 12:28:43
It is a shame that David Brenner passed away a little while back. He had just signed a contract to appear with Barbra Streisand in a movie entitled The War of the Noses'

[ddph]

Getting a lot of chuckles this morning

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it."
— John Moore

universalmom on 2012-11-01 01:28:28
Huh! Interesting...

Allen on 2012-12-26 19:54:34
Not really.

nevadasmith68 on 2013-08-19 20:43:35
How very true.

bazinga on 2013-10-25 10:41:59
In some places it was the hoof-print of the camel. Not all terrains are well suited to horses. For a fascinating anthropological study, read The Camel and the Wheel.

gryhnd51 on 2014-01-08 20:10:55
thanks, Bazinga....that sounds like a really good read.

puffybob on 2014-09-25 15:04:23
Not so sure that civilization and barbarism are opposites.

JenDiaz72 on 2014-11-12 07:49:30
How about ostrich riding? Those suckers can go pretty fast.

LLapp on 2015-11-29 18:59:29
And there are stretches in the ascent when there is only one set of hoofprints. "It was then," says the ostrich, "that I carried you."

montyb on 2016-05-09 21:49:13
How about the Laetoli footprints?

[universalmom]

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."
— Robert Bresson

Barnabas on 2015-05-08 08:58:24
Isn't that why we buy clothing in the first place?

[Barnabas]

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.
-Konfal Blyther

chriscrojam on 2011-10-02 22:31:57
I'll have to use that in a bar sometime.

[opallady]

"Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone."
— Susan Mitchell and Catherine Christie

chopstix on 2013-10-22 07:20:52
That's why it's sitting quietly over there while I do these cryptos.

montyb on 2014-07-04 08:18:58

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