Classic Comments on the Quote

[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!!!!

[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