Classic Comments on the Quote

[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.

[LLapp]

"It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas." — George Santayana

montyb
December 27, 2013, 9:48 am
Well, I don't like to brag.....

slow1
September 24, 2015, 3:15 am
LOL

kb83
June 9, 2016, 6:47 am
Shucks, monty, when ya' got it, flaunt it.

[LLapp]

Dark humor

"When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats." — Claude Swanson

BrainCellKeeper
September 1, 2014, 7:43 am
That's what they did on the Titanic.

Hash
October 2, 2014, 12:28 am
Yeah, why go down alone?

susanith
July 8, 2017, 12:41 pm
Alas, I had trouble with upper. Did they really follow the rats on the Titanic?

Queethebean
June 9, 2018, 9:58 am
Only the first class rats.

DavidinKenai
August 3, 2018, 11:16 am
To the lobsters in the kitchen, the sinking of the Titanic was a miracle.

[oddcouple]

"Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt."
— Jack Nicklaus

Barnabas
March 30, 2012, 3:17 pm
Over the past two days, I have come across two puzzles of quotes attributed to Jack Nicklaus. Both times I checked the four letter words to see if the word 'golf' would work, and in neither quote did that word actually come up.
montyb
August 18, 2012, 5:55 pm
There are a lot of 4-letter words associated with golf that are, indeed, not "golf". I've used them all.
universalmom
March 30, 2014, 1:49 pm
Hahaha...nice, monty!
abracadebra
June 9, 2014, 4:58 am
Perhaps the spelling is wrong?
LLapp
December 16, 2015, 3:23 pm
Ball, dirt, club, sand, hole, walk, what else?
Quizzical
August 30, 2016, 8:15 am
Monty, we're going to miss you when you're gone! Great line.
wvwoman
November 1, 2016, 11:45 am
do you know something about montyb that we don't know, quizzical?!
puzzleme
March 13, 2017, 12:49 pm
Monty? Monty, are you there? Hello?
LLapp
May 25, 2017, 4:24 pm
It's spring - he's golfing.
SippyGurl
June 2, 2017, 8:54 pm
lol, lol, agreed, p'raps lol, lol, WTH?, right?, hullo?, prolly
NotTooOld
October 5, 2017, 10:35 am
I thought monty meant four letter words like X@#!
Persephone59
January 9, 2018, 5:11 pm
Yes, I think Monty's golf vocabulary is surely rather colorful.
montyb
April 11, 2018, 2:01 am
Yes, my colorful 4-letter golf vocabulary includes blue, gold, cyan, aqua, etc. As you can see, my lexicon tends toward the "blue".
MamaB
April 19, 2018, 5:45 am
Oh, thank goodness your back!
LLapp
November 27, 2018, 2:44 pm
I had a feeling monty was back when I saw the empty pizza boxes.
jbb33054
December 15, 2018, 2:02 am
49
rnodding
December 26, 2018, 9:19 am
48

[LLapp]

"Men trust their ears less than their eyes." — Herodotus


GtrZan
June 24, 2016, 1:50 am
this is why we say "the eyes have it" and not "the ears have it", at least i think so but I may have heard that wrong

[LLapp]

"Where the law is uncertain there is no law." — Proverb

skoogie2
July 27, 2013, 2:12 am
I love this! Structure and consistency work! (I guess I right away saw it as raising kids!)

LLapp
October 19, 2014, 12:34 pm
Definitely true for raising kids!

LLapp
April 23, 2016, 10:22 am
This time I started with "Where the cow is uncertain there is no cow."

BriddlesBob
July 31, 2016, 6:22 pm
I had Paw

mmfs83
January 3, 2018, 8:30 am
I did the same thing Llapp. I'll bet the cow was brown. I used to tell my kids that brown cows gave chocolate milk, and spotted ones gave root beer floats. They never questioned me.

Roxanne
July 2, 2018, 1:51 am
This 'uncertain cow = no cow' proverb is another way of expressing the famous Schrφdinger's Cow paradox.

[Eureka]

That time when everyone got carried away with poetry, of all things....


"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. " — Joseph Joubert

Barnabas
June 12, 2013, 10:37 pm
... oh, and BYOB too!

skoogie2 February 17, 2014, 11:39 am
BYOP

montyb May 17, 2014, 10:13 am
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can rhyme with "Nantucket"?

puzzleme
May 30, 2015, 5:36 pm
Go stick your head in a "bucket"?

darkyr April 16, 2017, 3:30 pm
Soon you were down on your luckit.

writeon
December 11, 2017, 1:16 pm
Every poem I chuck it Because I really suck it. In the trash I tuck it Before someone can pluck it And say I should have stuck it. Iambic pentameter is not my middle name.

kb83 January 18, 2018, 3:40 am
and on her landing, she stuck it?

blueladyblue July 2, 2018, 8:07 am
There once was a man in a bucket Who played crypto, yet boy did he suck it! He was slow, yet he tried; 'Til his brain became fried. All the commenters told him to duck it. (alt end: He finally decided to just ... uh, never mind)

[montyb]

A salute to Pootie's wit and spirit.

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty one. I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."
— Hindu Spiritual

pootie49
April 6, 2009, 11:38 pm
oppenheimer was said to have quoted that when the first test bomb was dropped

maradnu
July 9, 2009, 12:03 am
The last sentence of that is what he said, I believe.

pootie49
May 18, 2011, 4:31 pm
yes. its now a quote on the site. profound man. wonder if he knew what he had unleashed? the consequent ramifications of the entire project. the invention of a doomsday clock. nuclear proliferation treaties, fear, deterrence. the fact that in the almost seventy years since that test that bomb was only used twice. thankfully. to keep peace by the use of fear...odd concept. one that words apparently. yet so tenuous. and now that bomb and the technology lies in the hands of people who wouldnt think twice about what oppenheimer said.

pootie49
June 22, 2012, 2:43 pm
*works not words. and my hamsters were running at full tilt when i left that comment. lol

pootie49
July 22, 2012, 3:10 pm
** chipmunks not hamsters. I have two of them. they run the wheel in my brain in shifts. verbose lil gaffers aint they?

[oddcouple]

Credit darkyr on this one.

"Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights."
— Pauline R. Kezer

darkyr
May 4, 2017, 10:09 am
Logging turns us into furniture.
Persephone59
May 16, 2017, 9:49 pm
That was funny, darkyr.
Persephone59
August 9, 2018, 3:13 pm
I still think that's funny.
Eureka
November 14, 2018, 5:11 am
Ha ha to both of you.

[oddcouple]

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. "
— Albert Camus
abra
September 9, 2016, 1:50 pm
I can't hear the word despicable without thinking of Daffy Duck.
NotTooOld
May 8, 2017, 5:53 am
Hard to take this quote seriously now.
skeeter
February 1, 2018, 3:44 am
Thankth, abra.
DrCryptell
April 22, 2018, 2:54 pm
However most respect is based on fear.
jason jiujitsu
June 13, 2018, 3:30 am
I can't her the name daffy duck without thinking about despicable barack doofus Hussein.
montyb
March 2, 2019, 9:31 pm
I think Camus just described the current cabinet.