Classic Comments on the Quote

[ddph]

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
— Alfred Hitchcock

BriddlesBob on 2014-11-21 05:54:20
now that's one for the birds!

Roxanne on 2016-01-07 15:28:10
I confess, I have a suspicion that this cryptogram gave many of us vertigo.

[LLapp]

"Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs." — Konstantin Chernenko

JJ20paws on 2016-01-19 05:02:18
My mom interferes in mine all the time

kleinw2000 on 2016-08-30 04:41:41
JJ20paws, have you tried giving her an ironic smile?

[LLapp]

"Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel." — Martin Luther

kb83 on 2014-07-26 17:38:30
Sounds a bit symbiotic.

mazereeuw on 2014-09-29 15:51:44
Often I think it's God who builds the chapel while the devil builds himself a cathedral.

universalmom on 2015-01-05 03:03:43
wow maz, I like that! Too true.

haverwench on 2015-06-21 05:49:11
What does God build where the devil builds a toll plaza?

abra on 2016-09-10 13:32:48
A Cinnabon store.

[aerie]

"When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them."
— Euripides

chipmunkcheeks on 2010-10-02 02:53:58
Awesome name Euripides

Barnabas on 2013-10-26 05:28:53
Chipmunk, he got the name when he brought a torn toga to a tailor. The tailor said, "Eurpides, and I fixadees." And Euripidees said, "Nice to meet you, Fixadees."

darkyr on 2016-11-17 03:32:20
Sounds like the plot of an adventure movie. The new bad guy has to dig up the old bad guy to get his power, meanwhile the good guys have all of their goodness locked on display behind glass. By the time they find the key, things have gotten a bit spicy.

[LLapp]

"I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate." — Graham Greene

abra on 2013-06-12 18:07:35
I wonder what happened to them.

wordfairy on 2015-03-09 00:34:03
His grand dad re-appropriated them.

darkyr on 2017-03-29 06:33:25
He pawned them to pay his dental bill.

[LLapp]

"I think I'm worth over a hundred billion dollars, but that's just on a cellular level." — Charlie Sheen

Spenser on 2014-12-05 04:12:54
What does that even mean? It's one of those statements that sound pithy and amusing, but is in fact utterly devoid pf meaning.

kb83 on 2015-03-25 07:16:26
Sheen sells Sheen cells on the Sheen shore.

Marboy on 2017-04-07 12:56:06
kb83 - you win the prize for the best ever comment!

[ddph]

"You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world."
— Gilbert Chesterton

montyb on 2012-05-27 17:18:22
"It was a dark and stormy night."

Lurker on 2012-07-25 23:49:38
No, he said the Best writers.

chopstix on 2013-02-19 05:27:34
Snoopy don't get no 'spect 'less he's Joe Cool or the Red Baron - dang!

nevadasmith68 on 2013-09-28 08:41:26
It was the best of times it was the worst of times when Scarlett looked at Rhett and said "Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar."

skeeter on 2015-02-15 06:48:56
… and then the unicorn smiled as it jumped over the glitter-covered rainbow.

JenDiaz72 on 2015-04-10 09:09:38
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

figment on 2016-03-30 20:38:49
HA!

LLapp on 2016-09-02 09:52:26
That's what the solution curve for the quote should be called -- the best of times and the worst of times.

[ddph]

"U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James."
— Robert Brault

rage on 2012-01-01 01:55:58
Nice

tgreen517 on 2014-09-01 16:36:23
Sometimes it does feel that way!

wvwoman on 2015-02-01 21:08:18
that's really funny!

judy100 on 2015-06-12 23:31:03
But I like James better

darkyr on 2016-07-15 04:24:45
Jesse never suffered anyone to fill out multi-page forms.

LLapp on 2016-11-19 16:27:51
That would have been funny if he did.

kb83 on 2017-01-18 07:59:01
You mean, make the teller fill out a long form about his personal life before taking his money?

[ddph]

"Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind."
— Milton Garland

maridex love on 2010-06-13 11:32:56
GOOD

chriscrojam on 2011-10-22 02:35:21
Sometimes I like having my mind distorted, just not with worry.

montyb on 2012-03-29 22:03:28
Great.Now my mind is being distorted by worry about how worrying distorts your mind.

Queethebean on 2013-03-12 23:35:07
I worry about that.

larry149 on 2014-10-14 08:06:31
Two rules for handling stress: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff; 2) It's all small stuff.

Quizzical on 2014-12-30 14:45:30
Corollary number one to Larry's two rules: Small stuff can turn into big stuff in a flash

skeeter on 2015-02-18 12:51:04
One thing I worry about is that not enough people worry about how it does no good to tell a worrier not to worry.

insomniac on 2015-03-12 21:06:44
You people worry me.

fishbum on 2016-03-14 11:56:01
"What, me worry?"...Alfred E. Newman

GtrZan on 2016-04-29 06:09:38
Fuhgeddaboutit!

MamaB on 2016-11-27 08:03:09
larry, on my last puzzle, abra was saying that was 2 ways, but the author said one way.

maradnu on 2017-01-07 14:01:24
My mind is already so distorted that any further distortion might straighten something out.

[LLapp]

"The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face." — D.W. Winnicott

momof7 on 2013-05-08 19:43:05
That's funny, because I look like my father, not my mother.

montyb on 2014-06-14 08:51:55
I also looked in the bathroom mirror one morning and saw my father staring back at me.

universalmom on 2014-12-14 05:52:15
...and you said Dad! Boundaries! I need privacy!

[LLapp]

"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business." — Bette Davis

chopstix on 2013-05-04 20:13:23
She may have been referring to Tallulah Bankhead.

SippyGurl on 2014-05-30 08:03:02
or miriam hopkins

montyb on 2014-08-10 11:08:05
Or Snidley Whiplash.

[ddph]

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
— Alfred Hitchcock

BriddlesBob on 2014-11-21 05:54:20
now that's one for the birds!

Roxanne on 2016-01-07 15:28:10
I confess, I have a suspicion that this cryptogram gave many of us vertigo.

oddcouple on 2017-04-07 22:53:27
Makes me afraid to look out my Rear Window!

[LLapp]

"Imitation is the highest form of pissing me off. Quit stealing my content and violating my copyright." — Jen T. Verbumessor

chopstix on 2013-09-02 07:05:59
Somehow, I don't think she'd want this quote here.

[LLapp]

"If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?" — Unattributed

kb77 on 2011-08-19 13:48:05
probably not. really, the sex just isn't that good.

montyb on 2013-09-10 04:29:48
In a heartbeat!

killdozer on 2015-11-12 18:56:31
I'm just sticking it out for the sake of the kids at this point.

[LLapp]

Glad I asked

"Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options." — Paul E. Pfuetze

LLapp on 2016-03-01 18:24:22
How do you pronounce Pfuetze?

marnita on 2016-04-07 07:46:16
I don't.

spacecoyote1966 on 2016-05-25 07:58:07
Footsie?

montyb on 2016-12-11 08:40:39
We're on a first name basis; I just call him Paul.

abra on 2016-12-24 18:42:12
It's sort of a rude noise, like a raspberry.