Classic Comments on the Quote

[ddph]

"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. "
— Samuel Smiles

Allen on 2014-08-24 05:05:37
Forbear, fivebear, who’s counting?

montyb on 2015-10-10 18:22:06
Allen is.

[ddph]

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea"
— unattributed

maradnu on 2011-03-23 01:38:32
I guess I'm not that old.

kb77 on 2011-09-09 12:27:34
i dont know, my six year old comes up with ideas all the time that pain me greatly!!

WRQ9 on 2013-11-15 11:37:40
I've gotten so much younger, it's a shame my body hasn't heard.

maradnu on 2015-01-25 12:03:13
Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now.

hasselblad on 2015-02-23 06:42:39
Ah, ageism. The last "acceptable" prejudice!

[abra]

"To your friends, you're like a trash bag. They'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out."
— Adam R. Gwizdala


Queethebean on 2012-05-22 19:24:21
That's my friend, Adam R. Gwizdala. Well, he used to be my friend, but, you know how that goes . .

[bonlocker]

"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression. "
— Sigmund Freud

montyb on 2012-03-15 19:23:43
Isn't that what in-laws are for?

[wvwoman]

"The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth."
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

cleofish on 2012-09-22 10:03:36
Did he foresee "The Price is Right"?

[munchlet]

"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
— John Stuart Mill


abra on 2016-02-27 15:25:46
You didn't expect quotes about sunshine and daisies from that face. Did you?

OMgosh, I was quoted. I'm shocked and thrilled.

Abra, you merit multiple citations. I always read your comments and usually learn something or laugh out loud.

Where did Mr. Mill get that statistic, 19/20s of mankind? Did he pull it out of you-know-where? Did he generalize from his own feelings? Recent research on happiness suggests he was far off the mark. Most people can generate happiness, even in fairly miserable circumstances, and it's essential to survival.

[munchlet]

"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. "
— Unattributed

PianoManGidley on 2010-12-02 01:37:32
Any cook will tell you that. But look what happened to the cook!

Lurker on 2010-12-22 01:37:06
I love that movie.

bansaisequoia on 2011-08-02 14:16:03
What movie?

WRQ9 on 2012-07-27 00:06:53
What cook?

BeeAre on 2012-09-22 13:04:10
I thought this was Walter Durranty talking about Joe Stalin starving millions of people in the Ukraine famine of the late thirties.

locodad on 2012-09-28 10:50:35
What did the egg say to the cook?-You crack me up

Lurker on 2013-09-21 12:55:55
The movie was Clue. I believe this particular exchange was Martin Mull and Eileen Brennan.

[ddph]

Munchlet. Interesting quote about 19/20th of people. I don't believe it either, but I don't believe very many statistics. I think 95% of statistics are made up to prove whatever the quoter wants them to say.

[abra]

"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. "
— Unattributed

PianoManGidley on 2010-12-02 01:37:32
Any cook will tell you that. But look what happened to the cook!

Lurker on 2010-12-22 01:37:06
I love that movie.

bansaisequoia on 2011-08-02 14:16:03
What movie?

WRQ9 on 2012-07-27 00:06:53
What cook?

BeeAre on 2012-09-22 13:04:10
I thought this was Walter Durranty talking about Joe Stalin starving millions of people in the Ukraine famine of the late thirties.

locodad on 2012-09-28 10:50:35
What did the egg say to the cook?-You crack me up

Lurker on 2013-09-21 12:55:55
The movie was Clue. I believe this particular exchange was Martin Mull and Eileen Brennan.to

I remember this quote, I was Clueless, about what they were talking about.

[wvwoman]

"No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos."
— D.H. Lawrence

montyb on 2012-01-26 12:23:10
Then my yard is fully itself.

(i laughed when i read this, laughed when i copied it, and laughed again when i pasted it. a 3-laugh rating is excellent!)

[munchlet]

Full of dandelions, huh? So was my yard, till one day in a fit of madness I dug them up. All of them, including those long, ugly roots.

Alas. My yard never recovered from its radical surgery. Losing the weeds does not mean gaining a lush carpet of grass. That part takes cultivation.

OddCouple, John Stuart Mill made up that statistic, intentionally, in the service of rhetoric. It's called ironic overstatement, something like that, but it betrays a bleak view of the world.

And, Abra, guess what I just found at the library? Clue, the movie, on DVD. Next week, I may know what happened to the cook. Right now, I'm as Clueless as you were.

[abra]

I'm trying to contain myself, but you people are too funny.

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. "
— Anthony Robbins

puffybob on 2010-07-27 04:36:10
More what?

MarcusAurelius on 2011-06-15 11:41:41
More better

fredsevent on 2011-10-08 20:55:29
Mass. Eat people, eat.

iltquilt on 2012-09-26 02:10:12
Hmm. Sounds like Soylent Green.

wordfairy on 2015-03-19 20:27:44
Proving that punctuation really can save lives.

[aerie]

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown." -Ross Perot


montyb on 2013-06-28 21:31:57
I'm glad we did not elect a man who apparently believes that one yard equals one foot.

kb83 on 2014-05-13 16:38:43
great catch! He should use "metaphor-logic-check."

fredsevent on 2014-08-08 03:14:01
Might it not depend upon how big the foot is? Does Ross wear a 45D shoe?

LLapp on 2014-08-31 15:26:16
No. 45D earmuffs, maybe.

[ddph]

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate."
— Robert Brault

kb77 on 2011-08-24 18:13:47
that would be disappointing, especially for the europeans on the autobon.

fredsevent on 2012-02-09 06:21:50
Dude, in a fun car, on a gorgeous day, blasting great music, with little traffic - I find those moments as good as any other.

opallady on 2012-04-08 22:10:52
I know people who traveled the entire length of Montana and never saw a mountain. Sad.

saipanwriter on 2012-07-23 02:10:36
still hating these motivational quotes. Brault's are among my least favorite.

Carrot on 2013-01-17 15:11:19
Blah, Blah, Blah Blogger's quotes don't even leave the driveway of his home, let alone make it to the interstate of mildly scenic or barely interesting. How GREAT it would be to see an end to his site quotes journey!!!!!!!!!!!

JetMech on 2014-02-19 12:13:01
opallady, I'm from Montana and it is impossible to drive the length and not see a mountain,,,,however, to drive the width in eastern Montana one would never see a mountain

chopstix on 2014-02-28 05:55:27
you got that right fredsevent!

montyb on 2014-09-06 14:56:54

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqIEYtQtU4TIAlcP7w8QF;_ylu=X3oDMTEwNGdoZnJ0BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDVjE3MARncG9zAzE4?p=born+to+be+wild&vid=c4492ceebe3cbaae5b6718faa47875e3&l=2%3A55&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DVN.608025480853127356%26pid%3D15.1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5Ht1k67buPg&tit=Steppenwolf+-+%3Cb%3EBorn+to+be+Wild%3C%2Fb%3E&c=17&sigr=11a4o3ofv&sigt=114moeog4&age=0&&tt=b

universalmom on 2014-09-15 16:12:24
predictable rant from carrot - so much hate!

JD_1947 on 2014-11-18 02:06:55
Boring . . . insert your choice of words after 'you never' and you have your very own quote . . .

dovid1946 on 2014-12-24 03:49:38
I know plenty of people who died and had never left New Jersey

LLapp on 2016-03-23 07:45:30
I used to know people who went through life without leaving northeast Philadelphia.

[munchlet]

Jewish Heritage

"Everyone is unique. Compare not yourself with anyone else lest you spoil God's curriculum."
— Baal Shem Tov

(Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer was born in Ukraine around 1700 CE. Through the force of a charismatic personality and profound knowledge of the tradition, he founded a branch of Judaism known as Hasidism, a fusion of mysticism (Kabbalah) and Orthodoxy. His moniker, Baal Shem Tov, means Master of the Good Name.)


dovid1946 on 2015-01-01 01:25:43
'curriculum' is probably not the proper translation from the original Yiddish, or Hebrew or Polish

montyb on 2015-07-21 01:17:17
Wait until the Texas state Board of Education gets hold of it.

Andy451 on 2016-01-24 05:12:15
So we're all just like snowflakes then? Ohhh, so that's why there's such a nasty blizzard outside right now.

kb83 on 2016-03-08 12:47:36
And just remember, you too are unique, just like everyone else.