Classic Comments on the Quote

[Cirella]

and lo, a colon has been added

"Censor: a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business."
Bennett Alfred Cerf


Lurker on January 6th, 2011
Perhaps there should be a colon after Censor?

gryhnd51 on November 25th, 2011
"censor" the VERB means to remove, suppress, delete, to express disapproval of. In this quote, it is NOT being used as a noun, in which case a colon would be required.

kb83 on November 14th, 2014
I vote for noun and a colon.

maradnu on January 29th, 2015
Having a colon is handy. I'd hate to be without one.

montyb on June 19th, 2015
Some censors are intimately acquainted with their own colons.

[darkyr]

https://turtleneckclub.com/

[LLapp]

"What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Roxanne
November 5, 2018, 1:31 am
Some might consider this quotation to reflect Goethe's overall Weltanschauung. But in fact, he is merely referring to the Turtleneck-of-the-Month club (Klub Schildkrotenhals des Monats) that he signed up for on a foolish whim two years ago. He knew he should have thought twice before he fell for the old 'keep up with each season's new colors' ploy. But the ads showed a manly German Enlightenment philosopher with a lovely woman -- frankly, a babe -- on each arm promenading through the streets of Heidelberg, and he thought he knew something about color, given his own scientific researches. Turns out he really likes only his old favorite white turtlenecks from Eduard von Bauer, and now the verdammt Schildkrotenhals club won't let him unsubscribe. He keeps trying their customer service phone number and just gets the usual bad recording of Handel's Zadok the Priest on a loop.

[LLapp]

Abra's comment made me laugh out loud...

"None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act." — Hannah More

vivian1874
June 1, 2013, 5:35 am
I'm too busy solving cryptograms.

wvwoman
July 10, 2013, 4:51 am
that comment made me grin.

JD_1947
November 9, 2014, 4:07 pm
I don't like thinking about it . . small, feeble and poor makes me depressed . . . I may have to do something to change this condition before I can act . . .

dddeedee
March 27, 2015, 10:48 am
How will an acting career help.

LLapp
October 28, 2015, 6:01 am
^ hahaha.

LLapp
April 3, 2016, 12:37 pm
I wonder if this was Hannah's pep talk to her servants.

abra
January 25, 2017, 9:42 am
You, the little short one with the blanky, couldn't you be dusting or polishing something.

Purson
October 17, 2017, 5:05 am
^I can't breathe I'm laughing too hard

[Eureka]

"The poet is the priest of the invisible." — Wallace Stevens

Persephone59
August 15, 2017, 8:33 pm
Mmmm. R was the last letter to solve, and I was looking for a superlative instead of a cleric.

darkyr
May 29, 2019, 11:44 pm
Maybe it is a superlative and the poet is the most pri.

[Eureka]

"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something." — Jean Rostand

montyb
April 19, 2012, 2:27 pm
Now where did I put those car keys?

[LLapp]

"Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way." — Hosea Ballou

dovid1946
January 22, 2015, 1:59 pm
what a cool name he has.

kb83
April 1, 2016, 4:14 am
He was called "Hullah" in prep school.

skeeter
March 13, 2019, 10:29 am
Ballou changed his last name from Canyousee.

[LLapp]

"A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life." — Curt Siodmak

Jrdad
December 19, 2020, 5:45 pm
They called him Crazy Curt; he used to wander around in a bathrobe with a couple of steak knives, looking for a good time.

[oddcouple]

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. "
— Seneca

universalmom
February 14, 2014, 3:45 am
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. -Longfellow
ulua
July 19, 2016, 8:13 pm
so true...
montyb
August 14, 2016, 6:39 am
Ow! I bent a fingernail on the keyboard! I'm going to take an axe to this stupid compu
jnoodles
November 17, 2016, 12:57 pm
montyb A hatchet would do nicely.
LLapp
October 18, 2017, 8:40 pm
Monty - If you see this, congrats on the new computer!
blueladyblue
January 30, 2018, 9:54 am
LOL monty. In this case the larger hurt was to your computer.
MissKitty
February 20, 2018, 10:15 am
like road rage!
mistyswiss
March 20, 2018, 8:59 am
montyb your comments are the reason I complete the qoutes.
blueladyblue
July 29, 2019, 6:11 pm
...unless your damaged fingernail got infected, you went to the hospital, surgery, amputation...
LillyLilly
November 11, 2020, 8:49 am
The greater damage was to montyb's wallet.
marnita
November 24, 2020, 12:17 am
Monty? Monty?

[LLapp]

"Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities." — Alfred North Whitehead

mikehallbackhoe
January 14, 2017, 2:40 am
dictionaries should be outlawed before someone gets hurt

hrossa
December 5, 2020, 12:45 am
Codswallop. Skeddaddle ya gormless snollygoster, just whinge into your whoopensocker.

[LLapp]

"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names." — Danish proverb

montyb
February 6, 2014, 12:10 pm
That is especially true for good old Whats-his-name.

lertsek
September 20, 2018, 5:11 pm
We never have any Bear Claw or creme-filled proverbs.

[Fudi]

A special guest appearance from our sponsor ... kind of cool:

"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life."
— Jeremy Thorpe

opallady
September 27, 2009, 9:08 pm
I found it listed both ways when I tried to look it up online, but I think the correct one, the one that makes sense, is,"... that he lay down his life for his friends."
bansaisequoia
October 9, 2009, 5:49 pm
This seems to be a complete misattribution. It is really from John 15:13 and should read, "Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Think about it--would Thoreau be a creep who would lay down his friends for his life? This is a man so altruistic, he went to jail to protest slavery in the US.
LiveLoveLaugh
October 25, 2009, 12:26 pm
this doesn't make sense...isn't it saying he would turn his friends in to save his life. I don't think this is correct.
bgray
October 13, 2011, 9:52 pm
Maybe it means he loves his own life more than his friends? Just kidding -- it's definitely wrong.
Lurker
June 16, 2012, 1:29 am
But it's really funny this way. And I'm sure SOMEONE has said this at some point.
admin
September 3, 2012, 1:25 pm
The quote is correct, but it was indeed a misattribution. I've fixed it now. This was actually said by Jeremy Thorpe, a British MP, in 1962, as a tongue-in-cheek misquote of the original bible passage. The comment was directed at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who had just sacked seven of his cabinet ministers.
Kgun5
June 13, 2013, 9:18 pm
Gold star for the Admin for the cool attribution info AND context for this quote!
cuji70
December 30, 2013, 4:59 am
Exhibit #135278 Liberals have no sense of humor
jeanering
March 1, 2014, 3:11 am
In today's world it's quite true.. man loves himself so much, he does lay down his friends lives for himself.
obsessedreader8
May 14, 2014, 1:20 am
I think it's hilarious!!
LLapp
September 25, 2014, 3:53 pm
Glad it's fixed! Boy that was hard.
wvwoman
September 6, 2015, 9:29 am
i'd be interested in knowing to whom it was originally misattributed here...does anyone remember?
marnita
July 21, 2016, 7:38 am
From Bansai''s comment above, I gather it was misattributed to Henry David Thoreau.
LLapp
January 15, 2017, 12:33 pm
It's rare to see a comment from Stephen (admin). This is a special comments thread!
nyyanks
July 22, 2018, 1:24 pm
this quote comes up as accurate...but what do I know I'm a Yankeeholic.
imsoeasy
December 3, 2018, 10:47 pm
If you can't lay down with your friends in this life, who can you lay down with?
Persephone59
June 22, 2019, 3:53 pm
Great message string! I had a strong feeling that quote was written that way, and I thought it was funny.
bigdave
November 5, 2020, 5:52 pm
I don't mind being called a liberal and I thought this was funny. Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal Party the time, got off a jolly good one.

[Eureka]

Thanks for the laugh, GramBow!

"The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact."
— Arthur Smith

Elephino
July 18, 2020, 1:58 pm
grambow would you please quote a few of the best jokes in the bible?

GramBow
August 17, 2020, 11:43 am
You should check out Samson in Judges 16:30. He brought the house down!

[Eureka]

(Apparently, Stephen got the "H" out of there. Thanks for the laughs, montyb.)

"Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure."
— Harvard Lampoon

fishbum
November 15, 2011, 6:49 pm
Lamphoon?

montyb
August 26, 2012, 2:39 am
It's a funny storm.

LLapp
April 7, 2015, 4:16 pm
Error: It's "Harvard Lampoon" -- no H. (Though I like Monty's definition.)

montyb
April 25, 2015, 6:46 pm
I agree with LLapp; get the "H" out of there.

LLapp
May 13, 2016, 12:00 pm
monty, you are too witty.

SippyGurl
October 1, 2017, 2:14 pm
lol monty!

RustySkipper
February 14, 2018, 12:01 pm
Karma chameleons come and go also.

[Eureka]

If laughter is the best medicine, I’m going to be very healthy after reading this exchange.

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
— Redd Foxx

montyb
March 29, 2012, 4:51 pm
I hereby vow to consume enough preservative-filled fast ans processed foods that when I die I won't need enbalming.

montyb
July 6, 2014, 3:25 pm
*and*

puzzleme
July 18, 2014, 8:53 pm
Don't you hate it when it takes nearly two years to be able to correct a typo?

SippyGurl
October 17, 2015, 7:28 pm
yah, have a few that need addressing... hit that enter button and go DOH

montyb
September 6, 2016, 11:18 pm
Apparently I only see this quote on even-numbered years.

wvwoman
September 14, 2016, 7:34 pm
montyb, when you're back in 2018, you can fix that one last typo...i'm surprised barnabas hasn't mentioned it!

LLapp
June 23, 2017, 12:37 pm
Wow, good catch, wvwoman!

fishbum
September 25, 2017, 7:24 am
Redd Foxx was not known for is good grammar.

JJ20paws
July 28, 2018, 9:22 am
Shouldn't be lying about dying

Roxanne
August 3, 2018, 12:52 am
Where are you, Monty? Only five months to go ....

darkyr
March 5, 2019, 12:39 am
montyb is busy at the moment consuming preservative-filled fast and processed foods. Please leave a comment and he will respond back to you on his next available visit to this quote.

kb83
May 14, 2019, 4:47 pm
montyb, you missed 2018. I hope you are still consuming enough preservatives.

montyb
February 22, 2020, 11:01 pm
*embalming*

abrown08
October 23, 2020, 10:02 am
There it is. The eight year journey comes to a close.