Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

"In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting." — John Ruskin

kb83 on June 24th, 2014
In both cases, ya' got 'yer religious paintings.

"As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things."
— Po Bronson


maradnu on April 10th, 2010
Would that there were more of this in American politics today.

montyb on March 30th, 2014
The Grasshopper has much to learn, Master Po.

LLapp on May 28th, 2015
The speaker has bad grammar, which threw me. He should have said either "As I've gotten older, I've learned" or "As I get older, I'm learning." And Google tells me that Po Bronson is a journalist and novelist. Feh.

Persephone59 on July 30th, 2017
Calm down, grammar Nazi.

SippyGurl on August 17th, 2017
po grammar bronson ;p

MamaB on August 24th, 2017
I saw bansai say once that he doesn't read the quotes until after he solves them. I'm learning to do that more. It let's me overlook those grammar/logic issues.

badbob on January 1st, 2018
the object is to solve the quote. if you can do that even with poor punctuation and grammar it is a testament to your skills

darkyr on February 23rd, 2018
Calm down, grammar Nazi hunter.

BriddlesBob on March 14th, 2018
Calm down, "calm downer" Nazis.

abra on August 13th, 2018
LOL, each comment was funnier than the last. I've got nuthin'.

kleinw2000 on August 16th, 2018
Calm down, commenter.

badbob on August 17th, 2018
the russet burbank is not a common tater

mtvoyager on December 14th, 2018
No one is listening to the quote. Just accusing him of bad grammer.

maradnu on January 21st, 2019
Frankly, if it's what he said, get over it. People use 'bad grammar' all the time in everyday life.

jimmy on January 23rd, 2019
There ain't nothin' wrong with that as long as grammar is a means of communicating instead of merely displaying an elitist affliction.

[LLapp]

"For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell." — George E. Wilson

tskaggs6 on February 16th, 2015
I don't know how he has time to study anything what that imp Dennis living next door and popping in all the time.

abra on May 9th, 2015
:0)

[LLapp]

Touching neighbor stories...

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." — Hubert H. Humphrey

countessofmontecrypto on May 17th, 2011
Unfortunately, we seldom get to choose our neighbors. Or even vote for or against them.

opallady on May 25th, 2011
My neighbors loaned me a car with an automatic transmission when I broke my right wrist four years ago and couldn't shift my pickup's gears.

kb77 on November 2nd, 2011
my neighbor is an elderly lady who lives up the lane in front of our farm. she and her hubby use to own our place and then sold it and built a smaller house up front. she is the most wonderful old girl, full of piss and vinegar, and my kids love 'grandma helen'. we take care of her land and maintence and take her meals often. she then helps with kids...like a recxent surgery i had, i couldnt drive and she picked my kids up every day. my kids learn to help her with chores and it is a good lesson for them to help her, and the love they get in return is priceless.

wvwoman on January 31st, 2013
thank you, opallady and kb77, for sharing those 'warm fuzzies'!.

kjmcaj on May 17th, 2013
100 seconds.

jnoodles on July 21st, 2013
My neighbor solved it in 90 seconds.

abra on November 5th, 2014
LOL, jnoodles.

dovid1946 on May 7th, 2015
I live in a 55 and older development. Very quiet. The only sound you hear is the ambulance taking another one of us to the hospital.

darkyr on December 1st, 2016
My neighbor and I feed a clowder of stray cats, he in the morning and I in the evening. What is funny about the unspoken arrangement is that he started out filling a bowl I had for them on the side of my driveway. When I began feeding them in a more sheltered spot on the other side of the house, he continued to fill my bowl on my driveway. Eventually that bowl broke. He replaced it with a new bowl. All the while, the bowl sits on my driveway. He never feeds them on his own yard or driveway that borders mine.

SippyGurl on February 7th, 2017
a tornado ran through our part of the state this morning. we have bent street signs etc in our area, but a few miles away some streets were devastated. the kicker is, they were also hit badly during katrina. the best part is how the community pulled together. they went around looking for their neighbors, some helping others out of bad spots. it is heartbreaking, but no one being interviewed is screaming or crying as they look at the rubble that was their home. they talk of - wow a friends daughter and baby are on the news right now, they were in a building that blew away and threw them onto a car, both are ok - surviving and rebuilding

LLapp on February 3rd, 2018
SippyGurl, that was a riveting real-time report in the middle of the timeless comments column. I wonder how everyone is doing now.

[SixtyNow]

"There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship."

Skeeter, my cousins had autograph hounds in the 50s. Wow, haven't thought of those in a lo-ong time.

[LLapp]

"When the student is ready... the lesson appears." — Gene Oliver

Allen on June 3rd, 2013
When the student isn't ready, the pop quiz appears.

LLapp on January 14th, 2015
HAHA.

bwbaer on March 15th, 2017
Sounds zen.

skeeter on December 22nd, 2017
Definitely zen. When zee student is ready, zen zee lesson appears.

[oddcouple]

Brings back memories

"There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship."
— Unattributed

chopstix on August 5th, 2013
I love all those little hearts over the i's!

abra on January 4th, 2014
funny chopstix, I can see them too.

skeeter on April 7th, 2015
This is exactly one of the quotes nine-year-old girls used to write on each other's "autograph hounds." Anyone remember those stuffed toy Dachshunds that came with a pen and pen loop? Back in the 1950s, we spent hours collecting our friends' signatures and cornball sayings.

abra on November 27th, 2015
We just had autograph books. This was one of the things that were written in them. Along with, 2 good, 2 be 4 gotten. Can't remember many of them anymore.

wvwoman on July 5th, 2016
popular in junior high school: Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 me! (too wise you are...)

wvwoman on September 21st, 2017
i just remembered one written by a guy who thought he was hot stuff: "russian hands and roman fingers." (ewww!!)

momn8r on July 12th, 2018
I auto cry/I auto laugh/I auto sign/your autograph!

CCCookie on November 24th, 2018
High school year book? When you get old and have your twins don't come to me for safety pins?

[montyb]

"When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. "
— Josh Billings

darkyr on May 4th, 2017
When nobody else will talk about you, you are forced to take drastic measures.

[oddcouple]

"Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day."
— Dan Custer

universalmom on September 25th, 2012
Are we supposed to mutter this to ourselves every morning?

wvwoman on February 24th, 2013
only if you feel the need, universalmom. (your comment made me giggle!)

abra on January 26th, 2014
I'd have a hard time remembering that, the first thing in the morning. Maybe around lunchtime would be better. Every lunchtime is a new beginning...

debzhaus on January 30th, 2014
Okay, it's time to make the donuts...

skoogie2 on February 15th, 2014
Oh my gosh, these comments made me laugh!

kb83 on March 31st, 2014
Or was it what General Custer muttered the day of his last stand?

abra on July 15th, 2014
debzhaus, we use the "tine to make the donuts" line around here all the time. It made me smile. I'm glad someone else remembers it.

montyb on October 16th, 2014
Geez Dan, that's setting the bar a little low.

LLapp on May 21st, 2015
By the time I finished reciting this long tribute to Now, it was tomorrow.

LLapp on October 22nd, 2016
As for affirmations to keep myself on task, I prefer "Today is an important day."

skeeter on October 22nd, 2017
abra, your first comment has me laughing.

badbob on May 19th, 2018
General Custer last mutter was "damn!, look at all the Indians"

[LLapp]

"The footprint of the owner is the best manure." — English Proverb

puzzleme on April 23rd, 2013
The footprint of THIS owner is best kept out of the manure, thankew.

montyb on June 1st, 2013
I think puzzleme has summed it up rather nicely.

figmo on March 14th, 2014
Well dung, puzzleme!

[opallady]

You guys are hilarious!

"Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences. "
— Unattributed

montyb on January 1st, 2015
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slow1 on March 29th, 2015
Montyb -- funny! Those ads are soooo annoying.

marnita on May 26th, 2017
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abra on July 11th, 2017
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[LLapp]

Escher-Sketch

"Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists." — M. C. Escher



montyb on May 19th, 2012
Escher is one of my favorite artists.

nehiyawiskwewniya on May 30th, 2013
never heard of him, must goggle him.

wvwoman on September 21st, 2013
you'll no doubt recognize his art when you see it.

tjsrc on November 9th, 2013
You should all check out the 3D printing models they made of some of his buildings, they're insane.

montyb on March 15th, 2014
How could one not have heard of Escher?

abra on June 28th, 2015
You can get lost in Escher's pictures. They're incredible.

darkyr on July 22nd, 2016
There was a time when each of us had not yet heard of Escher, then we had, then we come back around to not having heard of him. It is the nature of Escher.

bansaisequoia on January 25th, 2017
When I was a kid, I used to create pictures on my Escher-Sketch. Then I would shake it up, and the aluminum powder would be redistributed and the images erased.

kb83 on February 21st, 2017
Amazing how he created things that endlessly baffle you.

318WOZ on December 13th, 2018
I once had an Escher-Sketch, too, bansaisequoia! When I set it down and left the room, I fell through the floor and landed at the same place I'd been sitting before. Weirdest thing.

[oddcouple]

"And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."
— Lady Gaga

gryhnd51 on March 14th, 2014
Or by one slab of meat at a time?

ulua on April 24th, 2014
Fabulous!

maradnu on July 22nd, 2016
Offensive? Silly perhaps.

Spellbinder44 on September 29th, 2016
Will google meaning of sequin after posting this comment . Probably has something to do with stitching ..?

kb83 on September 9th, 2017
a non-sequin-tur.

LLapp on June 17th, 2018
Oh my, are sequins an item of a bygone era already?

maradnu on January 1st, 2019
I couldn't tell you the last time I wore a sequin

[oddcouple]

Lots to think about

"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition."
— Alexander Hodge

oddcouple on December 7th, 2014
But if it had adequate evidence, would it really be faith?

mikehallbackhoe on February 7th, 2015
faith is based on knowledge of the past. I have faith that I can solve the next cryptogram..... maybe....

Beagle on February 25th, 2015
I don't think Mr. Hodge understands what faith is.

abra on April 8th, 2015
I think you're right, Beagle.

viktoria on June 20th, 2015
I'm with oddcouple.

marnita on February 29th, 2016
I'm with mike.

LLapp on June 5th, 2016
I like Ike.

darkyr on November 16th, 2016
I'm with Lightyr.

SippyGurl on January 7th, 2017
i'm with stupid. oh wait, that's a mirror

Persephone59 on December 10th, 2017
I want to know why, if there is a god (or more), why is faith necessary? Why would a loving deity require folks to believe, just for the hell of it (pun intended)? Why would god hide. Why would god play head games? I'm not an atheist, just agnostic. I don't understand why people want so much to believe. What's wrong with eternal sleep? I believe in morals and crime and mostly, the golden rule, and I think religion is just derived from that.

Queethebean on June 22nd, 2018
I'm with Persephone.

YorkiesRule on August 9th, 2018
Persephone, who says God requires you to believe in him? If God exists, then he exists whether or not you or anyone else believe in him, and his existence doesn't depend on faith. It's people who need faith, not God. Faith helps people understand the world and make right moral choices. Some people are so whole that they don't need faith, and you could be one of them. But the majority of people are lost if they don't have faith. That's why having faith is important, whether or not God actually exists. By the way, I'm not speaking on behalf of any religion, everything I said is just my personal opinion.

Eureka on December 8th, 2018
A mix of funny and insightful comments on this one. I have faith that someone will eventually read this comment.

[oddcouple]

Of passwords and toothbrushes

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
— Clifford Stoll

Scorpion451 on January 9th, 2014
excellent advice.

oddcouple on April 25th, 2015
But then you got another one to try to remember. I have about 20 different password and I can't remember half.

montyb on July 12th, 2015
But I bet you know where your toothbrush is, oddcouple.

abra on April 8th, 2016
Years ago, I saw Clifford Stoll on one of the morning news shows, probably GMA, after he had tracked down a KGB hacker. He seems WAY hyper, but he's a really interesting person.

oddcouple on March 28th, 2017
Yes, monty. I know where my toothbrush is. But I only have to keep track of one.

LLapp on April 18th, 2017
And when you go to the store and buy the exact same kind of toothbrush, nobody stops you and says you can't pick the same toothbrush as you did for the last six toothbrushes.

tgreen517 on August 13th, 2017
Maybe you should write your password on your toothbrush!

marnita on February 14th, 2018
So far nobody has tried to hack my toothbrush.

SippyGurl on September 27th, 2018
lol tgreen! awesome