Classic Comments on the Quote

[aerie]

"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. "
— Arthur Schopenhauer


montyb on 2012-03-17 01:25:57
The trifles or the person?


puzzleme on 2013-05-07 12:59:02
Don't trifle with us, monty.


Allen on 2013-07-06 12:45:35
You say trifles, I say truffles. Let's call the whole thing off!


Quizzical on 2014-03-15 10:22:04
From the construction of the verb tense and the plural "they", it would indicate the trifles. I don't think that is what Artie had in mind. An please, someone, get him an aspirin.


ulua on 2014-04-15 02:43:23
Yum, I love a nice chocolate toffee trifle


macmilh on 2014-12-18 02:15:59
Quizzical - an aspirin is a cure for trifles?


Quizzical on 2015-01-09 03:41:08
Maybe the trifles gave him a headache. Chocolate can do that.


kb83 on 2015-06-08 04:17:46
Great comments!


tgreen517 on 2016-04-17 07:19:48
For some reason i am hungry now.

[aerie]

"You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard."
— Ronald Reagan

nevadasmith68 on 2013-06-18 01:07:18
I think that should still be the law.

wvwoman on 2014-01-21 16:50:00
how asinine.

LLapp on 2015-01-15 19:37:50
No, we should wait until they die first, like we do for everyone else.

abra on 2015-02-11 15:38:39
Best answer, LLapp.

pegxpeg on 2015-07-29 10:04:17
Funny LLapp.

lainecap on 2016-03-19 15:17:46
llapp is right

[LLapp]

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. " — Elbert Hubbard

montyb on 2014-03-22 05:51:41
.............................................

fishbum on 2014-08-10 09:19:33
????????????????????????

[LLapp]

"Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to." — Roger Zelazny

oed on 2012-09-21 03:40:53
Knock knock.

montyb on 2013-11-02 09:19:57
Who's there?

wobray on 2013-11-25 12:26:57
"I am the one who knocks" -- W. White

DeskJockey on 2014-10-02 03:46:17
It's gettin' dark, too dark to see...

Highpoint on 2014-11-12 11:45:54
I wish I had an ostracod named after me. Life would be complete then.

montyb on 2015-07-16 16:44:20
That is by far the weirdest knock-knock joke I have ever heard!

[montyb]

That li'l devil, LLapp!

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

saipanwriter on 2012-06-01 02:06:42
Believing that Satan is redeemable is the ultimate in faith! Who would have thought such from Mark Twain?

madrone on 2012-09-16 21:07:03
Do you know Samuel Clemmons? He's joking.

jnoodles on 2013-06-19 19:09:46
What's the difference, utimately, between praying 'for' and praying 'to' Satan? For a non-believer there is none. For a believer there should be none. Do Satanists tythe? Cuz I'm pretty sure they pay taxes.

LLapp on 2015-04-17 18:02:28
I think there's a big difference between praying for the redemption OF evil and praying TO the force of evil. Twain was joking, but still what he meant was praying for redemption of evil.

abra on 2015-10-19 10:24:56
ahem, I totally agree with LLapp. )

ruxpin66 on 2015-10-30 11:03:37
Also agree with LLapp

LLapp on 2015-12-29 14:40:40
Hehehe....my evil plan is working....

[ddph]

Good one, Barnabas.

"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of the state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
— Baron de Montesquieu

kb83 on 2014-05-29 11:10:30
I tried shave, shame, shade, and share, and shake, before coming up with shape.

Barnabas on 2014-07-22 06:08:57
Well, shave on you, err shade on you, ummm shake on you, Doh!

wordfairy on 2015-02-28 23:34:25
LOLZ, Barnabas!!

ruxpin66 on 2016-01-09 05:11:05
I had "share," and spent way too much time trying to come up with an alternative to "later." Duh!

[aerie]

as a Canadian, I found this funny....

"Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen."
— P. J. O'Rourke


pootie49 on 2011-05-29 14:16:48
uhuh and we prefer it that way. as for illiterate fishermen? i tayk ofenz at that. i fish nd i can reed gud.


momof7 on 2013-04-21 02:43:18
Pootie, I luv yore coment. I shud hav yu over to vizit my iglu wun day. yu can park yore dog sled next tu mine.


drawkward on 2014-05-16 02:09:23
what is a 'sport fisherman'?


wordfairy on 2015-03-16 22:06:53
Huh, you'd think the queen would commision a documentary. I guess she's too busy commissioning Carr's butter cookies and other foodstuffs for high tea. :P


LizardLeap on 2015-12-13 06:00:57
Grew up near the Canadian border....can still sing "O Canada"


LLapp on 2016-01-16 19:10:34
I love how he calls it "the Canadian country" rather than simply Canada.

[LLapp]

"Those that are silent profess consent." — Unattributed

rage on 2011-12-27 01:33:10
That's why you can get a mime to do anything.

[Barnabas]

"How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on?"
— Tom Waits

JenDiaz72 on 2014-10-14 09:45:13
Lunesta

LLapp on 2016-01-15 10:10:22
This quote does not help me like Tom Waits.

[abra]

I don't always understand WRQ9's comments but when I do, I sometimes LOL.

"Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart."
— Jerome K. Jerome (In the crypto, the word "the" is repeated twice.


Madbury on 2010-09-03 19:07:11
error: "at the the pain"

agatha on 2011-01-10 05:07:52
The pain is so great that we stutter.

pootie49 on 2011-06-30 23:46:00
The actual original quote has two 'the's" in it.

gryhnd51 on 2011-09-03 05:16:58
maybe Jerome Jerome just HAD to put two of SOMETHING in every sentence, having been given that ridiculous name!

WRQ9 on 2012-03-29 00:09:53
Once again the literary world searches wildly for a plural form of "the".

montyb on 2012-05-28 16:10:36
Great, WRQ9!

wvwoman on 2015-03-15 19:00:51
perhaps jerome jerome stammered stammered.

doomspark on 2015-11-25 06:58:11
argh! double "the"!

kb83 on 2016-04-01 06:36:55
no no comment comment. great great comments comments.

[LLapp]

Thanks, abra!

Abra, I don't think I ever would have solved that quote on my own, what with that double "the" in the middle of it, so I'm grateful to read the thread here. Delightful comments. Thanks!

[LLapp]

So much to enjoy here

(I found this thread delightful. It's got everything -- football, ancient Greek history and nonsense -- all in one place.)

"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain." — Titus Maccius Plautus

dovid1946 on 2015-01-14 04:35:32
If it is 4th and long from your own 40 yard line, you may decide to take a 5 yard penalty for delay of game and give your kicker a better chance to pin the opponent down closer to his end zone rather than kick it into the end zone and give him first and ten from his twenty.

locodad on 2015-10-06 16:51:15
i like your answer dovid1946

tskaggs6 on 2015-12-26 07:24:50
I'm pretty sure that in 200 BC the development of football tactics was fairly limited.

darkyr on 2016-06-13 08:01:04
Ah, 200BC, I remember it well. We were always wondering why the calendar went backward. We thought then that BC meant Backward Calendar. That and football, it's all we thought about really.

maradnu on 2016-07-18 06:03:57
The phrase Pyrrhic victory is named after king Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War. After the latter battle, Plutarch relates in a report by Dionysius: The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one other such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there to make recruits, and he found the confederates in Italy backward. On the other hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in courage for the loss they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war. — Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus

[ddph]

"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."
— Ambrose Bierce
bansaisequoia on 2009-08-20 02:01:40
Brain and brain? What is brain? (Actual line uttered on sixties TV series) http://blogs.sch.gr/eylignou/files/2...coy-helmet.jpg

Lurker on 2013-02-01 01:11:00
"Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "I think so, Brain, but what if the hippo won't wear the thong?" (Actual line from Pinky and the Brain.)

MmeScherzo on 2013-12-19 04:36:33
If I'd have used my brain more, I would have figured that out more quickly. I think.

maradnu on 2015-01-16 14:43:13
I think I think, therefore I think I am

judy100 on 2015-05-12 01:39:14
I think HARD.

montyb on 2015-06-15 15:09:41
I hardly think.

[ddph]

"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. "
— Proverb

octopunchy on 2012-11-20 17:32:22
#$@% darkness!

Annamariah on 2014-01-23 03:39:44
"It's hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead" - Last Ride of the Day by Nightwish

JD_1947 on 2015-01-09 03:28:22
. . use your cell phone too . . . .

LLapp on 2015-03-23 08:55:28
Or use your Small Candle iPhone app.

GramBow on 2015-06-23 07:13:04
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." John 8:12

[ddph]

"Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it. "
— Samuel Butler

fishbum on 2013-10-11 10:04:14
Gold or wisdom?

Quizzical on 2014-03-16 14:47:20
Yes.

LLapp on 2014-11-04 14:57:43
Can I buy a wisdom carrot with this gold?

maradnu on 2015-01-05 15:11:52
How about a wisdom tooth?

maradnu on 2016-07-07 08:19:38
I think they are called wisdom teeth because many people have none, and those who do are usually troubled by them.