Classic Comments on the Quote

[ddph]

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. "
— Plato

bansaisequoia on 2009-09-07 01:19:21
I guess he didn't have global warming, nuclear arms of overpopulation back then.

montyb on 2012-05-25 22:51:32
Not to mention losing your cable during "Eureka".

Lily H on 2012-08-04 19:38:03
Or losing your internet connection while in the middle of solving a cryptogram.

bvwRedux on 2012-11-29 23:11:00
And we don't have global warming or overpopulation either. But there is a awful lot of anxiety about them. Plato was right.

chopstix on 2013-02-13 15:32:22
I've been told it's quite pleasant to hide your head in the sand.

ShazOfOz on 2013-07-25 09:05:27
Earth's flat, is it redux?

LLapp on 2015-11-21 12:26:33
No overpopulation? Take a plane flight over America, coast to coast, and look down the whole time, and tell me we don't look like ant colonies that have taken over your backyard.

oddcouple on 2016-01-22 01:40:03
That's easy to say. But it's natural to be anxious when you aren't sure if you wonder if your job is in jeopardy.

marnita on 2016-05-06 16:29:41
bvwRedux is enough to make me anxious.

[ddph]

"I believe in the incomprehensibility of God."
— Honore de Balzac

maradnu on 2009-03-26 22:06:26
I believe in the incomprehensibility of Balzac.

fishbum on 2011-05-20 19:24:00
How would text "incomprehensibility"?

wvwoman on 2012-09-21 21:27:03
i wouldn't!

puzzleme on 2013-05-14 06:02:08
How about "??"

JD_1947 on 2014-11-24 12:24:53
. . I just texted my daughter a message . . . "I went to the doctor today and I have 'incomprehensibility'" . . . she texted back . . . 'WHAT???' . . .

abra on 2015-05-15 13:45:32
Well, I don't believe in the incomprehensiblity of YOU.

IlLatino on 2015-10-11 16:54:50
Way to go, Honore, that stinking word has 19 letters in it.

[ddph]

"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! "
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Barnabas on 2012-02-29 04:46:31
If I put my left foot in... put your left foot in. If I shake it all about... shake it all about.

kb83 on 2014-03-31 04:37:04
(...avenge me-- Unless, of course, I die because you killed me retreating.)

QuexUl on 2015-02-06 15:51:10
If I get one of these done faster than 196 seconds, cheer me!

[wvwoman]

"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."
— E.M. Cioran

agatha on 2011-01-01 15:30:36
Well, I hath lusted after the young asparagus stalk. Doth that count?

universalmom on 2012-07-18 05:40:33
Okay, what on earth does envying a vegetable mean??

Queethebean on 2012-08-08 23:08:11
I guess one's life could be so chaotic that one might wish one were a zucchini.

Allen on 2013-12-12 03:34:08
I envy vegetables--they're so grounded!

cindidido on 2014-03-17 02:57:34
LOL, Allen!

Prezkot on 2014-04-28 15:07:15
Lettuce give thanks for the human drama

skoogie2 on 2014-08-21 02:53:05
It is hard to get by on your celery sometimes

abracadebra on 2014-12-25 12:27:51
lol

haverwench on 2015-07-05 03:41:21
I suspect we're about to beet this pun to death.

[ddph]

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. "
— Benjamin Disraeli

bansaisequoia on 2011-01-30 07:20:08
The Hunan will does not work with this quote, but it is an excellent school of Chinese cuisine.

montyb on 2014-01-01 10:23:21
I can't resist the Hunan will.

aussienl on 2014-09-10 10:49:43
It's only Hunan.

dovid1946 on 2014-12-14 16:57:02
It has been said that when Prime Minister Disraeli would travel abroad, Queen Victoria became rather lonely for him and used to lament 'Won't you come home, Disraeli, won't you come home'

JD_1947 on 2014-12-17 14:27:14
. . and I'd stake my life on it . . .

puzzleme on 2015-07-28 16:12:28
Love it, dovid

[ddph]

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
— Saint Augustine

a little bit on 2013-01-17 17:16:47
I'm so very grateful that God loves me exactly the way he created me!! It's a testament to how much God loves us by seeing us through his eyes. He even knows how many strands of hair are on our heads!!!

Hash on 2013-08-23 00:01:02
If you will hold still long enough I will know how many strands of hair are on your head.

montyb on 2013-12-26 03:07:34
My strands are dropping like flies.

Allen on 2014-06-11 03:10:57
There’s only one of me! How many are there of you?

ruxpin66 on 2016-01-02 01:39:29
If God loved us exactly how he created us (sinner), he wouldn't make us go through all kinds of BS hoops to go to heaven.

LLapp on 2016-01-08 21:02:23
Don't confuse religion with God.

[universalmom]

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
— Willa Cather

LLapp on 2015-08-04 05:39:09
As in, I love you and I wish you would not be so damn cheerful in the morning.

nice one, LLapp!

[aerie]

"Even savage animals can agree among themselves. "
— Juvenal


Lurker on 2010-12-28 00:44:41
Bear #1: Doesn't this American tourist taste better than the Canadian one we ate last year? Bear #2: I agree.

[aerie]

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea."
— Henry David Thoreau

kb83 on 2014-05-08 11:31:13
And to a news reporter, all philosophy, as it is called, is armchair platitudes, and its purveyors and admirers are old men over their cigars.

LLapp on 2015-03-26 06:12:15
"Old women" = silly, weak, useless, vain people who worry over trifles. That stereotype has been around forever, and I hereby declare it dead.

[ddph]

"For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed."
— Elizabeth Zimmerman

saipanwriter on 2013-04-08 02:07:11
or bleat...

Barnabas on 2014-04-10 04:54:49
Ohhhh, the humanity!

kb83 on 2014-07-10 04:15:50
ba-a-a-d one, saipanwriter

abra on 2015-07-17 15:59:53
I have shed many a tear, thinking of their plight.

judy100 on 2016-01-13 23:38:04
Less blood than the skinned fur animals

[Barnabas]

"The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual."
— Millicent Carey McIntosh

puzzleme on 2013-04-20
"And the next is deciding who takes out the garbage."

Lil0 on 2015-05-14
" "phase". Respect is a phase?????"

LLapp on 2015-09-11
" "Element" would have been a better word choice."

killdozer on 2016-02-28
"I'm Rodney Dangerfield in my house."

[montyb]

"A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. "
— Proverb

LLapp on 2015-03-19 21:25:33
Ingrate.

[marnita]

We're still waiting, LLapp

"Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm."
— Jean Paul Richter
sexytary on 2013-08-10 10:30:29
Seriously?
abra on 2013-10-06 15:00:42
Is that true? I like flowers, but I'm not a gardener.
LLapp on 2015-01-20 06:47:20
Maybe I'll run outside to check the next time I see a storm brewing . . . . and if you never hear from me again, you'll know that Richter's ruse worked.
montyb on 2015-07-19 11:07:09
LLapp? Are you there, LLapp? Helloooooo...
LLapp on 2015-08-06 10:03:00
Okay I'm back, soaking wet and tracking mud. What's for dinner?
abra on 2015-09-04 14:46:11
The flowers, woman, did they emit a sweeter fragrance? Inquiring minds need to know this.
skeeter on 2015-09-20 04:36:09
My gardenia blossoms emit their strongest, sweetest scent just before they die.
kb83 on 2015-12-04 03:39:50
This must be a metaphor for something.
LLapp on 2016-01-18 17:59:10
Back again, and it's mid-winter, with no flowers, just brown grass and frozen soil. But fear not: I have written this quote on half a 3x5 card and stuck it to the front of the fridge. Come April's first impending storm, I will be out among the forsythia, taking notes. Patience.

[marnita]

Sacrifice

"As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. "
— Ernest Renan
punga on 2009-11-09 10:51:11
Comma after "mankind".
montyb on 2013-08-20 00:48:34
An opening on the horizon? WORMHOLE!!!
wobray on 2014-04-08 23:02:05
We've tried sacrificing virgins, rams, goats, fatted calves, non-fatted calves, chickens, other humans, etc., and we still haven't had a lot of luck with it...
LLapp on 2015-04-10 11:03:11
ERROR: Please change the first period to a comma! No need to google the quote to verify this correction; it's a no-brainer. Thanks.
LLapp on 2015-08-20 18:02:49
We offer the needless period as a sacrifice to the Baron god, and we pray for a comma in its place. Amen.
LLapp on 2016-05-15 18:05:58
Please, Mister Baron, look and see / if there's a comma in your bag for me. / We've been waiting a long, long time / since punga asked back in 2009.

[ddph]

"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. "
— William Hazlitt

universalmom on 2014-09-14 15:53:39
i try to rely more on custom, and less on prejudice

dovid1946 on 2015-04-11 04:07:54
i rely on my GSP

abra on 2015-04-28 18:53:26
GSP?

SippyGurl on 2015-11-07 10:31:54
gentry sensory perception, either that, or, genteel positioning system