Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know." — Andre Gide

abra
November 8, 2013, 6:21 am
Why?

kb83
April 19, 2014, 7:02 pm
suggests determinism antithetical to poetic sense?

LLapp
March 2, 2015, 4:59 pm
Pretty slick answer, kb83.

Capy
January 10, 2017, 11:14 pm
Are you saying a poet cannot be a scientist and if not why not?

marnita
July 10, 2017, 2:23 pm
"Wherefore," on the other hand, is fine.

kb83
January 11, 2018, 4:18 am
and "care for", and "there for", marnita.

lertsek
June 12, 2018, 11:26 am
That and "paid in full".

Elephino
July 4, 2019, 3:40 pm
"nevermore" has been determined as acceptable too

[Eureka]

That time when everyone was defending soda crackers, but then queethebean said what we were all really thinking....

"The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell." — Martin H. Fischer

pootie49
May 24, 2011, 2:26 pm
Hold on...pregnant women would disagree with that. And do you not know of a thing called a dustbuster???

bansaisequoia
June 14, 2012, 4:04 pm
I'm sorry, but, Denise Richards may not eat them in MY bed.

momof7
August 8, 2014, 1:17 am
A wee bit harsh.

Beagle
November 21, 2014, 7:11 am
I love soda crackers.

abra
January 24, 2015, 8:42 am
Where would peanut butter be without them?

elsiegirl
March 5, 2015, 7:58 am
On bread and celery.

abra
April 19, 2015, 2:46 pm
You could, but it wouldn't be the same.

montyb
June 10, 2015, 2:44 pm
I originally had "soya crackers" which, of course, would deserve a place in Hell.

marnita
November 8, 2015, 11:57 am
Yes, monty, that would make much more sense.

Lurker
June 12, 2016, 6:51 am
This quote must predate the invention of the vacuum cleaner.

hisashiburi
August 23, 2016, 4:00 am
Fischer was a physician; a reference, perhaps, to the use of soda crackers as a home remedy that may mask symptoms of a serious and/or chronic problem.

MamaB
October 28, 2017, 3:05 am
With chicken soups and stews - OMG Yum!

abra
May 16, 2018, 6:43 pm
yoga crackery -- I knew he was a physician and I wondered what he didn't like about yoga.

Spenser
August 14, 2018, 2:49 am
some people have such strong opinions about the least interesting things.

abra
October 15, 2018, 11:22 am
God point, Spenser.

LLapp
January 23, 2019, 11:07 pm
Yoga crackery! Haha!

Queethebean
May 23, 2019, 8:50 pm
If someone is going to hell for merely inventing soda crackers, I think I may be in big trouble.

[oddcouple]

Udder Foolishness

"Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. "
— Proverb


Lurker
March 17, 2012, 1:02 am
Ow
saipanwriter
August 22, 2012, 12:43 am
kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one, huh...
Altoid701
November 14, 2012, 1:53 am
Noted.
joed
January 4, 2013, 6:08 pm
Ouch...
montyb
July 25, 2013, 3:06 pm
There's a graphic I didn't need.
maradnu
October 2, 2013, 11:13 am
Put the squeeze on you
wvwoman
May 7, 2014, 12:31 pm
WHAT???!!
kb83
May 29, 2014, 4:17 am
sometimes I feel like an udderless cow.
dovid1946
May 13, 2015, 7:04 pm
it would be an udder catastrophe
gavinl
March 22, 2016, 12:38 pm
it's a fine line sometimes
maradnu
October 3, 2016, 6:22 am
Udder nonsense
bigdave
December 14, 2017, 10:36 am
de udder what?
SippyGurl
July 11, 2018, 3:43 pm
and watch the teeth too
318WOZ
January 24, 2019, 2:04 pm
Ha ha, boy, oh, boy. Good times. I remember when I was younger and I used to pull off the cow's udders all the time. I just shake my head now at the mistakes of my youth. I almost wish that someone had shared this wisdom with me before I mutilated so many animals, but hey, we've got to learn somehow, right? Such good memories.

[Eureka]

Cryptograms suddenly got a lot more challenging:

"Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. " — Sydney Smith

maradnu
April 1, 2015, 12:06 pm
No s***

puzzleme
June 10, 2017, 2:55 pm
No soup? No scab? No seat? What are you trying to tell us, maradnu?

seastar228
January 3, 2018, 9:39 am
It is hard enough to switch letters, now we have only stars to try and figure this out.

[LLapp]

Sorry, I can't seem to stop . . .

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." — Jeff Valdez

wvwoman
September 17, 2013, 11:15 am
and that might be true even if they had the strength!

Quizzical
March 10, 2014, 4:13 am
In some ways, cats are smarter than humans.

marnita
August 14, 2014, 3:17 pm
My cats obviously think I'm dumb, but they are very patient with me.

oddcouple
December 5, 2015, 12:34 am
The picture in my mind of cats pulling a sled is hilarious!

darkyr
December 26, 2017, 12:16 pm
Mush! I mean, Fish! Never mind, I'll walk.

[LLapp]

"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." — American Proverb

marnita
March 18, 2015, 7:54 am
This is not true. Sometimes branches just fall on innocent cars.

montyb
October 16, 2015, 1:15 pm
Those are pre-emptive strikes, marnita.

[LLapp]

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar." — Miguel de Cervantes

montyb
February 20, 2012, 1:25 am
Because then you are just tilting at windmills.

wobray
April 5, 2013, 11:48 pm
When the cat's away...

puzzleme
September 17, 2013, 4:56 pm
Don't count your chickens before you have to break some eggs to make an omelet.

nevadasmith68
September 20, 2013, 7:12 am
Thank you. I agree. Too many proverbs spoil the broth.

Highpoint
April 22, 2016, 7:17 pm
This is all water under the dam and over the bridge for me.

blueladyblue
June 26, 2018, 7:36 am
No, Highpoint, it's all air over the windmill.

darkyr
May 2, 2019, 10:28 am
Early to bed, early to rise, and keep your proverbs to a reasonable size.

[LLapp]

"I have lived; tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory." — Georges Jacques Danton

puzzleme
May 25, 2013, 6:33 am
Off with his head!

LLapp
July 23, 2015, 4:24 pm
Seems like he should at least have a Wiki bio up top, given his heroism and being guillotined and all.

skeeter
August 26, 2015, 4:13 pm
He should have quit when he was a head.

LizardLeap
November 17, 2015, 12:24 pm
tres arcane

maradnu
December 31, 2017, 3:16 am
Glory who?

badbob
May 26, 2018, 3:24 am
so it's not i hate liver?

[LLapp]

"Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself." — Philip Crosby

universalmom
August 26, 2014, 2:54 pm
Lean technology

judy100
April 14, 2015, 11:26 pm
The deadwood.

montyb
August 3, 2016, 12:29 am
Consultants.

darkyr
June 8, 2019, 2:27 pm
Speaking of consultants, Monty, although we appreciate your input into this matter, with sincerest apologies, we're going to have to let you go. Your comment just didn't sufficiently fulfill our needs on this quote. ... That was a jest, I'm sure you gathered. You are welcome to stay on in a purely volunteer status. We expect your next comment by Tuesday.

[LLapp]

"Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning." — Henri Estienne

Hash
February 9, 2015, 12:17 pm
I think my boxer shorts are too.

SippyGurl
October 29, 2017, 7:34 pm
too what?

Hash
January 18, 2018, 8:51 am
Rich and complex, obviously.

[LLapp]

LLapp, what a cybersleuth you are! She was a wonder and could easily turn the sound of the letter "m" into a near trithong!
NTO: confirmed!

Momn8r, wow! Thanks for checking it. Your descriptions of her are so charming.
Eureka, thank you for posting that one and adding the question!

[momn8r]

LLapp, what a cybersleuth you are! She was a wonder and could easily turn the sound of the letter "m" into a near trithong!
NTO: confirmed!

[Eureka]

As interesting as the comments on this quote are, I am mainly wanting to know if momn8r has seen the link that LLapp posted below.

"Poets are the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. "
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

mazereeuw
January 19, 2013, 11:54 pm
futurity? huh?

maradnu
November 18, 2013, 8:48 am
Futurama?

abra
December 9, 2013, 3:11 pm
Back to the Furturity.

dovid1946
December 11, 2014, 6:10 am
'futurity' was a perfectly acceptable word in the early 19th century

Spenser
February 22, 2015, 2:42 pm
Now days, we just say "the future." I'm not saying it's better or worse. I'm just saying.

kb83
February 27, 2015, 11:04 am
Ah, the futility of futurity.

Barnabas
June 14, 2016, 7:54 am
Futurity, it's the opposite of pastity.

mmfs83
May 6, 2017, 8:36 am
I like that.

badbob
November 23, 2017, 2:09 am
is there a nowtity?

momn8r
February 27, 2018, 3:56 pm
I truly do believe that Miss Hortense Watkins, my senior year AP English teacher, would have absolutely fainted over this burdensome sentence!

Persephone59
April 14, 2018, 9:27 am
I think Shelley was in a rather, ahem, expansive mood, and rather full of himself. Many poets speak of the future, not at all. You see, he's affecting my sentence construction!

LLapp
April 27, 2018, 8:33 pm
Rest in peace, Miss Watkins. (link)

LLapp
January 13, 2019, 10:46 pm
^I can't believe I did that. Wonder if I found the right Miss Watkins.

skeeter
March 6, 2019, 8:31 pm
Barnabas, you beat me to it!

NotTooOld
May 16, 2019, 6:47 am
Wow LLap. I can hardly wait for the mominator to confirm.

[oddcouple]

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
— Anton Chekhov

maradnu
September 15, 2012, 10:50 pm
Skewered both in one short quote.
locodad
June 19, 2013, 4:35 am
sometimes both just kill you by showing you their bill
nevadasmith68
August 30, 2013, 2:55 pm
That's the truth.
LLapp
April 9, 2015, 5:48 pm
Chekhov practiced all his adult life as a family doctor. That was his primary career.
dovid1946
May 25, 2015, 3:40 pm
so how many mistakes did he bury?
kb83
April 4, 2017, 2:35 am
It's called the Chekhov list.
blueladyblue
June 4, 2018, 12:18 pm
...groan...
pj48
September 27, 2018, 11:43 pm
At least he could laugh at his own profession.
Capy
May 17, 2019, 9:13 am
you loved one gets killed by the doctor and you sue him with the lawyer and get screwed both ways

[LLapp]

"There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. The real trick is to keep the biggest slice." — Jay Leno

wordfairy
April 2, 2015, 8:43 pm
Make mine blueberry! :P

SippyGurl
September 28, 2015, 9:42 am
mmm... strawberry-rhubarb pie

SippyGurl
October 20, 2015, 2:38 am
mmm... strawberry-rhubarb pie

abra
April 7, 2016, 2:15 pm
mmm...peanut butter pie.

maradnu
August 24, 2016, 3:27 pm
Key lime

BoggyBoots
January 15, 2017, 3:46 pm
Blueberry pie & vanilla ice cream is worth fighting for.

skeeter
February 25, 2017, 11:19 am
Buttermilk pie. Yum.

marnita
November 11, 2017, 7:03 am
It's almost Thanksgiving - I'm looking forward to pumpkin pie.

maradnu
November 19, 2017, 3:31 am
My wife makes a pumpkin cheesecake that is to die for

montyb
January 26, 2019, 7:58 am
PIE FIGHT!

Roxanne
March 19, 2019, 2:52 pm
SPLAT!!!!