Classic Comments on the Quote

[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 Schrödinger'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.

[oddcouple]

"When life throws you scraps, make a quilt."
— Unattributed


montyb
February 28, 2015, 1:34 pm
I wonder if iltquilt has seen this one.
kb83
May 4, 2016, 2:57 am
That's a scrappy attitude.
jimdgar
September 13, 2016, 7:47 am
Save the scraps and throw me lemons.
maradnu
November 30, 2016, 1:27 pm
I'd like some lemonade
universalmom
December 4, 2016, 1:44 pm
My dogs love it when I throw them scraps!
artcnet
April 3, 2017, 5:00 pm
or make a stew
MamaB
April 30, 2017, 2:16 am
Cozy and warm, and full! I like it.
SippyGurl
August 23, 2018, 11:26 am
soup time!
glassguy
April 2, 2019, 8:45 am
Two "quilt" puzzles in a row!

[oddcouple]

"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts."
— Fletcher

kjmcaj
April 11, 2013, 5:39 pm
52 seconds
figmo
June 2, 2013, 7:40 pm
...or imaginary friends.
montyb
February 10, 2014, 1:19 pm
Noble imaginary friends.
LLapp
March 16, 2015, 10:43 am
Or "It's a Small World After All" running endlessly through his brain.
oddcouple
March 5, 2017, 12:54 am
Oh, no Llapp! Why'd you have to do that to me? Here's my revenge-I wish I were a Oscar Meyer wiener.
NotTooOld
March 5, 2017, 2:13 am
STOP IT! Both of you!
Persephone59
July 30, 2017, 6:20 pm
Actually I changed that a little, long ago... oh I wish you were an Oscar Meyer wiener! Then I could just throw you to the dog! Of course I saved it for appropriate occasions.
writeon
February 27, 2018, 1:39 am
Yeah, but they are lousy conversationalists.
LLapp
December 10, 2018, 5:56 pm
C'mon guys! There's so much that we share that it's time we're aware, it's a small world after all. Everybody!!

[BriddlesBob]

My lord, what have I created?

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."
— Rabindranath Tagore

montyb on 2012-08-28 00:58:18
I can't quite get a handle on this one.

wvwoman on 2012-12-06 17:16:45
the full quote is: "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." is that helpful? (it doesn't help me much.)

geeko321 on 2013-10-21 09:17:20
Monty's comment was a joke. And a quite clever one I might add.

universalmom on 2014-06-09 12:46:46
(can't believe I even got here…:P)

chopstix on 2014-07-03 06:38:51
hahahahaha to the thread of the first 3 comments!

kb83 on 2014-10-20 06:46:57
As a user of logic, I feel shafted.

tjsrc on 2015-02-19 06:39:03
And a mind without any logic is like a knife with no blade: useless.

LLapp on 2015-07-04 14:02:36
And a mind all anecdotal evidence is a knife all handle. (What a fun metaphor -- it can work all kinds of ways.)

judy100 on 2015-07-27 12:14:47
There are many dull logicians.

GtrZan on 2016-05-06 04:47:15
a) I really like this quote. b) I really like montyb's comment, very punny. c) I got nuthin' to add but Mr Spock would love this conversation

I don't get the point!

[LLapp]

I love where this thread wound up!

"Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book." — Madonna

leah164
September 26, 2009, 11:44 pm
You can be a bookworm and a raving nymphomaniac simultaneously, you know

bansaisequoia
November 17, 2009, 11:38 pm
Like George Sand, Gertrude Stein or Anais Nin?

maradnu
February 18, 2010, 1:54 am
The fact that she uses her body to make money does not indicate strong sexual appetite - any more than a prostitute is a nymphomaniac.

abra
April 26, 2012, 2:10 am
Some of us don't think about you at all.

sarahk809
August 15, 2012, 9:25 am
I agree, Abra. Anyone who starts off with "Everyone probably thinks..." is an egomaniac

WRQ9
February 8, 2013, 11:44 am
She sold herself to the public, and made her conditions clear. She has no more credibility on the subject than anybody else!

crossland68
April 16, 2013, 3:53 am
There are more comments on this page than on any other page I've seen! She wins!

cherylab1963
November 10, 2014, 5:24 pm
People think about you what you show them. Show them something else...and they'll think something else about you.

abra
October 27, 2015, 12:19 pm
My first thought this time around was, "I wonder why they would think that". I agree with Cherylab.

SwampySox
June 22, 2016, 12:23 pm
Kudos for pushing the envelope Madonna.

LLapp
September 5, 2016, 6:02 pm
If I ever said, "Everyone probably thinks I'm a raving nymphomaniac," it would get quite a laugh.

darkyr
December 20, 2016, 6:11 am
Of course you realize, if they are still alive, anyone whose quote appears here may also be a member of this site. Will the real Madonna please step up? We have some important questions we need answered.

CryptoBee
October 30, 2018, 4:13 pm
I’m here, darkyr.

eholland
November 14, 2018, 5:54 am
This is a Fred Rogers quote, not Madonna. Please change!

[LLapp]

Poetry from CryptoBee

(I've broken my own "no editing" rule and added line breaks to CryptoBee's single-paragraph comment, because to me it read like a finished poem. I couldn't help it, and I promise I changed nothing else.)

"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there." —- Ben Bradlee

CryptoBee
October 8, 2018, 2:35 pm
I moved out of the newspaper business
in the nineties.
It has been suffering a slow,
strangling death
for the last twenty years.
Even I read it online these days.

No more,
the 6 am crash
against the front door,
the flattened flower beds,
the broken pottery
on the front porch,

all suffered for the
wonderful little package
that brought the world
to the kitchen table
to be savored
over a cup o joe.

[LLapp]

Hill areas, indeed


"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist." — Edgar Watson Howe

fishbum
July 30, 2015, 9:01 am
"The Lord alps those who alp themselves"...Groucho Marx

darkyr
April 6, 2016, 8:49 am
Alp! I'm dying over here in the foothills!

interactiveleaf
November 1, 2016, 6:35 am
Alps aren't just funny, guys. They're hill areas.

abra
February 16, 2017, 5:41 pm
Wow, interactiveleaf!! That was really good.

kb83
March 29, 2017, 4:45 am
I am glad I am not the butte of this joke.

Persephone59
April 29, 2018, 12:01 pm
I mesa well leave this alone.

skyystorm
July 30, 2018, 5:06 am
To summit up, I'm glad I had a peak at these comments.

[LLapp]

"We lost because we told ourselves we lost. " — Leo Tolstoy

bansaisequoia
April 20, 2010, 4:45 pm
Doesn't this sound more like something a basketball coach would say?

montyb
July 26, 2012, 12:53 pm
I'm not certain. As Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, "Just wait 'til next year."

Queethebean
August 2, 2012, 8:20 pm
But as Chekhov always said, "it ain't over til its over".

bansaisequoia
July 12, 2013, 5:30 am
Or, as Yogi Berra said, "If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

montyb
June 17, 2015, 1:28 pm
That Yogi always cracks me up with his malapropisms.

[montyb]

"A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen."
— Paul Valery

badbob
August 23, 2016, 2:38 am
he looks like Walt Disney

badbob
January 5, 2018, 8:13 am
he still looks llike Walt Disney

abra
July 4, 2018, 3:01 pm
I don't see that. Maybe someone should paint it.