Classic Comments on the Quote

[Eureka]

That time when Unattributed was dead wrong.

"A cemetery is the only place where people don't try to keep up with the Joneses. "
— Unattributed

susanj512
February 21, 2009, 7:13 pm
weird!!!

bansaisequoia
April 12, 2010, 10:04 pm
My monument's bigger than your monument.

universalmom
September 23, 2014, 2:33 pm
compensation

montyb
January 3, 2015, 11:21 am
Epitaph envy, Bansai?

Quizzical
January 5, 2015, 3:11 pm
The Joneses are a lot easier to keep up with in there. I knew a lady that used to say of her deceased husband, "At least I know where he is every night now."

skeeter
March 25, 2017, 8:10 am
They just keep up with the boneses.

maradnu
November 12, 2017, 2:22 pm
Bet me. Look at those who have very fancy monuments.

[badbob]

it should be "nor"

[LLapp]

I'm really enjoying the silliness in the comments tonight....

"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation." — Thomas Carlyle

daris_moore
May 26, 2012, 3:28 am
The 'how' does not make sense.

wvwoman
June 14, 2013, 9:28 pm
i agree, the "how" doesn't seem to belong there.

Quizzical
October 28, 2013, 3:33 am
Sounds okay to me. It is just a sentence structure not regularly used today. It is the more complete form, i.e. we normally just leave out the "how".

montyb
January 19, 2015, 2:39 pm
It sounds okay to me, also. But then again, I'm not a structure that is regularly used today either.

abra
December 30, 2015, 5:43 pm
I thought it sounded ok. Maybe I go back far enough that the sentence structure doesn't bother me.

darkyr
August 11, 2017, 4:31 am
How much farther back must you go for it not to be a bother?

vintage38
May 28, 2018, 8:09 am
39 seconds

marnita
July 16, 2018, 12:12 pm
I don't think that's far enough, vintage38.

[LLapp]

"There is no point in arguing about matters of taste." — Unattributed

bansaisequoia
January 30, 2011, 5:27 am
This is in very poor taste.

fishbum
March 16, 2011, 6:27 pm
I don't think so.

pajarito7
October 5, 2011, 1:06 am
Stop arguing and go to your rooms.

SillySil
January 12, 2013, 5:30 pm
OMG Someone beside that bans guy got the fastest time!

abra
July 11, 2014, 4:22 pm
Of course, someone sent that "bans guy" to his room.

Spenser
March 6, 2015, 4:47 am
Tell that to my thirteen-year-old daughter.

universalmom
August 18, 2015, 3:01 pm
Hahaha "that bans guy"

Annamariah
September 10, 2015, 6:26 am
Is there more point arguing about facts?

marnita
December 30, 2015, 4:46 pm
De gustibus non est disputandum.

munchlet
September 23, 2016, 2:39 am
Exactly what I was thinking, Marnita.

abra
February 28, 2017, 8:59 am
Me too, but I had to have it translated first.

Persephone59
August 4, 2017, 11:57 pm
There IS no point in arguing about taste! I'm right and you're wrong!

maradnu
October 8, 2017, 2:24 am
Of course there's a point - it's fun arguing about inane matters that adversely affect no one whatsoever.

[LLapp]

"Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh." — Martin Tupper

abra
August 23, 2013, 2:07 am
Could be, or maybe Mr. Tupper is a bully.

nevadasmith68
September 1, 2013, 1:39 pm
Martin was later hanged at a tupperware party.

abra
December 14, 2014, 12:09 pm
Oh, I hate it when a Tupperware party turns into a hanging.

kb83
November 12, 2015, 4:09 am
This neighborhood is too big for 2 tupperware hosts.

Barnabas
July 8, 2016, 5:01 pm
And what did Martin Tupper wear at the Tupperware party?

Jalapenoman
January 18, 2017, 1:52 pm
Did they remember to burp the seal on Tupper's coffin?

[oddcouple]

"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen."
— Sarah Brown

kjmcaj
June 19, 2013, 4:15 pm
54 seconds.
GtrZan
October 28, 2013, 4:57 am
that's a good one
chopstix
February 3, 2014, 9:24 am
But there are more than a few who have laid their way to success...
LLapp
December 2, 2016, 11:03 am
So why is "laying an egg" an idiom for failure?
bkmcincinnati
January 8, 2017, 1:41 am
To crow is one thing, but to produce is another. Said the hen to the rooster.
Nollij
October 6, 2017, 4:15 am
And boy did she strain those out while sitting.
killdozer
February 27, 2018, 1:44 pm
The one percent does nothing but profit off the labor of others.
Persephone59
June 3, 2018, 9:53 am
Wow, killdozer, that was a hard one to politicize, but you found a way!
agatejane
August 13, 2018, 11:22 am
I feel like this quote is directed at me.
imsoeasy
December 4, 2018, 12:09 am
Just 1%? Let''s look at the figures +100 % Population in US - 60.6% Employed = 39.4% Not employed - 20 % Means tested Government Assistance - 1 % Those Scum Sucking Capitalists = 18.4% Others not employed (retired, etc.)

[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.