Classic Comments on the Quote

[oddcouple]

About everyone's favorite subject.

"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."
— Robert Henri

kjmcaj
April 17, 2013, 7:28 pm
75 seconds
nevadasmith68
August 8, 2013, 11:51 pm
Great quote.
wvwoman
February 4, 2014, 4:43 am
i had "sex" instead of "sea"--and it wasn't 'til i read the solved quote that i realized it had corrected itself. i think sex makes way more sense in this quote...!
TalesFromTheCrypto
August 26, 2015, 2:47 am
"potent power" is kind of redundant. I do like to look at the ocean though.
abra
January 17, 2016, 1:25 pm
I had SEX too. It didn't seem like a bad way to start a quote.
gvbken7
November 23, 2016, 5:05 pm
I wanna have sex too
LLapp
December 13, 2016, 8:00 pm
I try not to have sex when I start a quote, because it would kill my average solve time. I guess if you're playing for the 100% solve rate and time doesn't matter, then you could start with sex and maybe a crossword puzzle or two to set the mood.
maradnu
January 8, 2017, 2:25 pm
I try not to have sex while doing cryptos - it gets the keyboard yucky
abra
February 2, 2017, 6:46 pm
On the last quote i did, my time was so high, that it looked like there was time for sex.
lertsek
May 30, 2018, 1:36 pm
maradnu, just lay down a towel. Or a tarp.
abra
July 18, 2018, 2:39 pm
It wouldn't be about just any sex. It would be about ''the'' sex. That's intriguing.
Capy
November 8, 2018, 8:37 pm
potent power is tautology

[LLapp]

"True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility." — Bryant H. McGill

abra
September 5, 2018, 2:19 pm
Born with a silver Thesaurus in his mouth.

[LLapp]

"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still." — Georg Lichtenberg

GtrZan
August 21, 2013, 12:20 am
I like this sentiment, never heard of the speaker though

Allen
February 23, 2014, 3:32 am
It's Frau Lichtenberg's boy, Georg.

montyb
July 13, 2014, 5:49 am
"boy Georg"

[VikramSidhu]

thanks for sharing

[Eureka]

Some quotes just hit too close to home.

"The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. "
— Samuel Johnson

montyb
September 10, 2013, 1:20 pm
Oh my lord, I'm chained to this computer.

LLapp
November 27, 2015, 8:12 pm
Just one more cryptogram...

SwampySox
May 4, 2016, 6:00 am
Another 12 step program.

marnita
July 24, 2016, 5:25 am
I do not have a problem with cryptograms. The fact that I can't stop playing them . . . .

darkyr
June 7, 2017, 10:38 am
Just 12 more cryptograms. That's my 12 step program.

badbob
June 16, 2018, 8:08 am
it is 12 steps from the fridge to my computer

montyb
December 26, 2018, 2:07 pm
And I'm still here.

[Queethebean]

"An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled." St. Jerome

badbob
July 31, 2016, 9:20 pm
I'm not going anywhere with him until he cheers up

MamaB
October 8, 2016, 3:39 am
Agreed.

badbob
June 18, 2018, 12:10 pm
Jerome, you're off the cruise

[LLapp]

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it." — Jean Jacques Rousseau

ghough12345
March 8, 2010, 1:28 am
It would be more helpful if this form appeared on the puzzle page itself. Sometimes the error makes it impossible to get to this page and site the error.

BrightSky9
September 23, 2012, 2:58 pm
Not to mention rating the difficulty of a cryptogram one can't solve. (Okay, after awhile, I give up. I've been doing this awhile, but am no expert.)

Allen
July 12, 2014, 11:47 am
What form?

abra
March 25, 2015, 12:05 pm
You know, Allen, the form you fill out, in order to get paid. It would be silly to spend all this time here, and not get paid.

LLapp
April 16, 2015, 4:52 pm
abra . . . . ha ha.

BriddlesBob
August 21, 2016, 8:23 pm
Boy, am I dense! I've no idea what you guys are talking about.....

Roxanne
March 18, 2017, 2:10 am
Well, the pay is nothing special but the health benefits are great. I really appreciate the insurance coverage for vision care and carpal tunnel issues.

LLapp
November 9, 2017, 1:16 pm
What I love is the all-expenses-paid 2-week vacation after you solve 1,000 difficult-rated puzzles. Last year in northern Italy was awesome.

susanith
November 12, 2017, 6:32 am
"The pay is nothing special but the health benefits are great." HaHa. This was my second quote in a row about faith.

MamaB
June 12, 2018, 3:34 am
The form to "add your comments," for those who didn't follow the humor.

Persephone59
November 10, 2018, 7:17 am
This is one of the funniest comment strings ever. Personally, I enjoyed my dream vacation of a week in a cabin in the San Juan Islands with a wonderful new man! Orcas everywhere! Suddenly their population rebounded!

[LLapp]

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." — Thomas Edison

mikehallbackhoe
November 14, 2016, 3:54 pm
though they may not be the same man

SippyGurl
September 5, 2018, 2:58 am
i think it depends on whether his wife is sleeping with him or getting ready to do some very loud housework

[Queethebean]

kb83 for the win again!

I searched & didn't find this one posted yet . . .



"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels." John Calvin

countessofmontecry
September 11, 2010, 3:59 am
Yikes! That's putting a pretty heavy burden on etymology.

MarcusAurelius
September 8, 2011, 11:59 am
verbal diarrhea

pootie49
June 27, 2012, 4:01 pm
I never really considered looseness of the bowels a defect. Is that weird?

wvwoman
March 6, 2013, 12:55 am
i remember my 9th grade english teacher telling the class one day that we had oral diarrhea--we of course thought that was sooo funny!


skoogie2 February 5, 2014, 9:49 am
Yes, one you can control and one you can't. So maybe the one you can control is worse!

kb83
March 13, 2014, 2:16 am
To Calvin, many things were defects!

mikehallbackhoe
December 5, 2014, 7:50 am
either one is a public nuisance

dovid1946
April 18, 2015, 12:09 pm
and if one is laconic , is that similar to being constipated?

figment
March 30, 2016, 3:26 pm
I would say complete silence would be more like constipation. Maybe being laconic would be closer to having gas?

LLapp
January 3, 2017, 8:21 pm
Oh gosh, look at the time, sorry I have to leave so soon...

skeeter March 25, 2017, 8:15 am
I thought it was going to be vowels.

kb83
August 11, 2017, 3:01 am
Yes, skeeter, looseness with vowels, is also called inconsonants

jbb33054
September 16, 2018, 2:23 am
100

Persephone59
October 8, 2018, 5:35 am
kb83, that was funny. It's old now, but it's still funny.

tskaggs6
November 3, 2018, 2:46 pm
From personal experience looseness certainly beats the other end of the poopial spectrum.

kahvecowgirl
February 1, 2019, 10:03 am
kb83, your joke is even older now, and it's still funny.

[LLapp]

Kb83 takes spontaneous limericking to new heights

"What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. " — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

puzzleme
June 24, 2013, 2:42 am
If they outwit us, they ARE cleverer than we are.

YorkiesRule
September 29, 2014, 12:31 am
My dog outwits me all the time, but I'm not bitter - I know she's cleverer than I am

Hash
December 7, 2014, 5:14 am
Yikes, Puzzleme! You are too clever to be outwitted!

wordfairy
June 3, 2015, 3:08 am
Priceless! Once again, the comments are better than the quote.

abra
December 16, 2016, 2:33 pm
Well, yeah!

LLapp
April 10, 2017, 4:27 pm
No wonder Francois is so bitter against us.

Capy
June 8, 2017, 9:18 pm
I was taught 'more clever' not 'cleverer'

kb83
June 14, 2017, 3:04 am
When climbing up Mount Everest, Climb only with the cleverest Who've gone before, Ten times or more, But never with the neverest.

[montyb]

"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others' love to us. "
— Thomas Traherne


LiveLoveLaugh
June 23, 2010, 10:45 pm
Thoams Traherne once again it is Thomas

LLapp
October 22, 2015, 5:20 pm
Fixed!

worng11
November 19, 2016, 10:48 am
I MISS Thoams

montyb
March 29, 2017, 8:14 am
Me too. He seemed like such a nice fellow. Whatever happened to him?

LLapp
March 12, 2018, 7:44 am
They sent him to the vet. He was fixed.

Eureka
November 25, 2018, 6:15 pm
Sounds painful, LLapp.

Persephone59
March 10, 2019, 11:50 pm
But now they don't have to worry about stray Thoam cats running around.

[LLapp]

"History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass." — Frederic Harrison

kb83
May 20, 2014, 5:19 am
History has no appendices.

universalmom
September 9, 2014, 3:34 am
it has loads of them!

figment
March 6, 2016, 7:00 am
*goes back in time and kills a mosquito*

LLapp
April 8, 2017, 1:32 pm
So on March 6, 2016, figment went back in time and ended the world as we know it. Finally, an explanation that makes sense.

slothful
August 13, 2017, 4:22 pm
there is not one part of this that makes sense to me and you people didn't help at all

slothful
September 21, 2017, 7:45 pm
nope, still doesn't make any sense

Deanna48
October 1, 2018, 10:16 am
Yeah, but it was easy to solve...

[LLapp]

A dozen people have probably asked this already, but how do I know if I am repeating a previous post. There are 70 pages or comment on quotes here. I'm sure if I see some interesting, somebody would have posted it already. Who knows, maybe I'll end up posting a repeat with new comments.

MadDoctor, everyone has their own approach. What I do is search the thread first to see if it's already been posted. If it has, I don't re-post it, because this thread is so long already that I don't want to bulk it up with repeats -- unless new comments have been added; then maybe I'll post it as an update. (The Forum search function is at top of the page while you're in the Forum thread you want to search. It works best if you search for just one distinctive word, not a phrase.)

Anyhoo, that's just my preference; it's not a rule. I could easily see it the way Oddcouple does, because this thread is so long that nobody is going to read the whole thing all at once. And on the third hand it doesn't really matter, unless Forum threads have a post limit. Hmmm, I don't think they do.

[oddcouple]

Nothing wrong with that Doctor. I suppose you could use the search function, but it's fun to get a chuckle even if it is a repeat.

[MadDoctor]

A dozen people have probably asked this already, but how do I know if I am repeating a previous post. There are 70 pages or comment on quotes here. I'm sure if I see some interesting, somebody would have posted it already. Who knows, maybe I'll end up posting a repeat with new comments.