Classic Comments on the Quote

[wvwoman]

"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."
— Socrates

fstop on 2013-05-12 01:49:33
Ahhh... fewest wants, not newest pants.

universalmom on 2014-01-19 07:08:42
Yes, me too, newest pants

slow1 on 2014-09-20 07:46:18
lol I knew that was silly, but still - it seemed to fit.

montyb on 2014-12-03 14:20:47
The newest pants in my closet really fit me.

abra on 2015-11-01 14:20:46
Newest pants is one of the best alternate solutions, that I've ever seen.

larry149 on 2015-11-06 04:44:23
I have the fewest warts.

wvwoman on 2015-11-17 17:47:52
haha--i like fewest warts!

pegxpeg on 2015-12-15 15:55:15
Newer pants in the days of togas would have been cutting edge. Bill and Ted.

that was a really good one, aerie!

[LLapp]

"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters." — Saint Bernard

mumu on 2012-05-06 13:53:01
He only says that because dogs can't read!

[pegxpeg]

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
— Paul Gauguin


montyb on 2012-07-19 12:36:57
And here I thought it was physics and the selective absorption substances have for certain frequencies of visible light. Pardon my ignorance (and chromatically-challenged eyes).

[LLapp]

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" — Philip G. Hamerton

Kgun5 on 2013-01-11 12:49:21
This is probably true much of the time, but it certainly isn't always. A passage has to strike someone during its initial reading to become quoted in the first place.

joed on 2013-03-10 19:10:35
I tend to agree with Kgun5, who once said, "A passage has to strike someone during its initial reading to become quoted in the first place."

Kgun5 on 2013-05-30 18:22:03
Hehe...joed made me tickle.

bazinga on 2014-03-29 20:10:38
Kgun5 fades into obscurity.

marnita on 2015-09-13 05:11:42
But his quote lives on.

abra on 2016-05-20 11:39:14
Admin, Kgun is oft quoted now, he probably should have a bio.

[LLapp]

"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once." — Frank A. Clark

abra on 2014-08-10 15:29:29
I like that one.

abra on 2015-05-18 10:24:06
I still do.

marnita on 2015-09-05 16:26:50
Abra is a leading authority on this cryptogram.

[ddph]

"There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair."
— Marcus Valerius Martial

fredsevent on 2012-01-31 19:32:22
Seriously! That's the extreme of your contemptible scale! And if you solvers were wondering, I am not bald, but merely choose to part my hair very widely in the middle.

gryhnd51 on 2012-08-13 21:36:59
Ummm, Donald Trump comes to mind.

saipanwriter on 2013-03-23 02:10:55
This is meant as humor, not truth. Obviously there are many more contemptible actions.

gryhnd51 on 2013-04-03 04:47:29
Here's a bit of humor. Donald Trump is both bald AND contemptible.

figmo on 2013-06-17 14:38:27
Who knew they had "comb-over" back then?

puzzleme on 2013-07-06 02:39:37
A comb-over is such fun to look at when the wind is blowing.

gryhnd51 on 2013-07-06 03:09:26
Imagine what a comb-over looks like in the morning. And why doesn't Trump just join Hairclub for Men?

maradnu on 2013-09-26 09:54:57
There is nothing more contemptible than someone who pretends to help, while hurting someone and taking advantage of them.

Quizzical on 2014-03-05 13:28:07
Maradnu, isn't that the basic principle of politics?

puzzleme on 2014-10-05 07:31:42
I once saw a bald guy with a tattoo on his head of a man pushing a lawn mower. No contempt there.

kb83 on 2015-02-25 03:38:05
This is blatant hirsutism.

Morpeth on 2015-05-22 15:39:55
A classic Seinfeld moment, when Elaine yanks the wig off George's head, screaming, "I hate this thing! And this is what I"m doing with it!!!" and tosses it out Jerry's window.

montyb on 2016-01-01 05:40:34
To gryhnd: http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__...nts02Londo.jpg

nelnose on 2016-06-05 08:34:02
This quote just proves that baldness has pissed of men a very long time. I still have a full head of hair at 58. It's just not as thick as it used to be. But for my mother's side, I do have a donut coming. But, like the commercial says " I had it while I needed it."

[ddph]

"My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years."
— Cathy Ladman

jval on 2015-03-16 09:33:50
My parents only argued in Slovak. God knows what it was all about.

wvwoman on 2015-08-20 03:34:54
funny, jvak!

JenDiaz72 on 2015-08-25 09:43:31
Mine was in French and my husband's was in Spanish and I only knew the cuss words in both.

[ddph]

"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. "
— Friedrich Nietzsche

maradnu on 2009-03-28 18:09:02
Well, Nietzsche was certainly wormy enough.

bansaisequoia on 2011-10-14 07:24:39
It's tough getting them to swallow their pills. You've got to hide them in their Purina Spirit Chow.

montyb on 2012-03-07 21:47:11
I've found that you can hide the pills in ghoulda cheese.

CarpeLanam on 2013-04-25 21:54:47
Isn't there a worm in the bottom of a bottle of spirits?

puzzleme on 2013-06-04 08:08:26
Q: What's worse than finding a worm in the apple you're eating? A: Finding HALF a worm.

[montyb]

"Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion."— Calvin Miller

LLapp on 2016-05-31 16:55:16
I had a surge of passion yesterday, but I took an antacid and felt better.

[aerie]

"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. "
— Samuel Smiles


abra on 2014-09-07 15:24:58
His name is a complete sentence. I like that in a quoter.

kb83 on 2014-09-16 03:20:24
abra, you didn't know that his middle name was "never"?

Ian123 on 2015-05-06 02:26:19
Thought it was "always"

montyb on 2015-06-20 08:33:30
You're both mistaken; it was "Usually".

Barnabas on 2015-07-09 05:57:16
I made the mistake of dropping a wine glass two nights ago, and then discovered I had a broken wine glass on my kitchen floor.

abra on 2015-10-10 09:47:41
Maybe it's Samuel Seldom Smiles.

marnita on 2016-03-26 13:22:52
That has a nice ring to it, abra.

[ddph]

"When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot."
— Ray Kroc

cellophane on 2012-04-09 16:13:12
Glad he was in the hambuger business. Nothing like 'ripe' hamberger.

montyb on 2013-03-08 21:04:02
You'd rather have green hamburger? Shades of Oscar Madison.

universalmom on 2013-09-17 16:11:03
All right, Ray, what were you smoking? Something green?

montyb on 2013-12-08 15:25:59
Do you want fries with that?

universalmom on 2014-02-08 02:40:06
Yes!! Munchies...

JD_1947 on 2014-12-09 05:17:08
. . I think its just a bunch of "Kroc" . . . .

[ddph]

"The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people."
— Donald N. Smith

bansaisequoia on 2010-08-23 16:05:32
Garnishment? Do the burgers owe back taxes?

montyb on 2013-09-03 15:22:27
Why those lousy deadmeats!

oddcouple on 2013-12-06 15:17:15
Monty, you made me laugh.

CCCookie on 2016-05-06 01:04:28
From wikipedia: Donald Nickerson Smith (born 1940) is an influential restaurant executive for McDonald's, Burger King and other fast food franchise restaurants in the latter half of the 20th century. His business practices helped shape the modern operational procedures and advertising models for the industry So, not a person of erudition, but a person who tried to sound erudite while going directly to the bottom line for fast food restaurants.

Jalapenoman on 2016-06-01 13:52:54
Cheddar or pepper jack cheese (not the awful American cheese), dill pickles, grilled onions, lettuce, jalapeno, bacon, and bbq sauce (no mustard, ketchup, or mayo).

[ddph]

"There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. "
— Samuel Butler

dovid1946 on 2015-02-14 15:34:58
wow. did he study Buddhism ?

kb83 on 2015-09-01 11:45:36
Yes, I find the absence of thought to be quite unthinkable.

kb83 on 2015-10-08 07:04:49
But these two things (thought and absence of thought) are 'unthinkable' in entirely different ways. Think about that. (or not)

SwampySox on 2016-06-05 17:03:09
I never thought therefore I'm naught.

[imported_nanrich]

"I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself."
— Carl Sandburg

bansaisequoia on 2011-08-29 18:15:21
I have solved some cryptograms that I don't understand myself.

maradnu on 2011-09-30 19:11:23
And sometimes I just don't understand myself, period.

wvwoman on 2012-12-06 19:57:55
so if you don't understand a poem, don't worry about it.

joed on 2013-02-22 15:04:46
And if you don't understand yourself, don't worry about it. Chances are that no one else understands you either.

montyb on 2013-08-02 13:40:40
Put this quote in a thought balloon and hang it over his photo above. What a giggle.

[aerie]

Andy451 debating Dick Motta

"War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage."
— Dick Motta

Andy451 on 2016-04-16 15:43:20
Maybe, but what about rock-paper scissors? Or what about tic-tac-toe? Or what about war, spades, hearts, poker, pinochle? Go fish, Dick. What about thumb wrestling? What about jacks? What about stratego, monompoly, the game of life, chutes and ladders, or checkers? I hope no one ever kidnaps Dick Motta and then forces him to be the facilitator of a D & D game first in Montana, where the kidnappers live, and then in his home town where he lived as a kid. He might find many games where it doesn't pay to have a home court advantage. This happens frequently during March Madness in the NCAAs also.