Classic Comments on the Quote

[Synonymous]

A classic from abra:

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
— Alfred Victor de Vigny
Comments on this Puzzle:

Persephone59
October 27, 2018, 7:00 pm
That was rather effete. (I thought I'd attack him with French.)
Synonymous
April 5, 2021, 10:56 pm
Carney or Linkletter?
abra
August 30, 2021, 5:49 pm
Buchwald or Garfunkel?

[LLapp]

"The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease." — Edward Jenner

RedEnoch
November 11, 2022, 2:16 pm
On the other hand, deaths from falling out of trees have decreased dramatically.

[hrossa]

"If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also."— Assyrian Proverb

LiveLoveLaugh
November 13, 2009, 9:50 pm
arf

LiveLoveLaugh
May 3, 2010, 1:06 pm
arf

LiveLoveLaugh
July 22, 2010, 3:19 pm
arf

montyb
April 4, 2012, 12:04 am
What the heck. Arf.

gryhnd51
March 9, 2013, 1:16 am
Yip ..Yip...Yip!!

Lily H
May 2, 2013, 2:03 am
bow-wow

nanrich
December 7, 2013, 2:37 am
Slobber, wag, arf

chopstix
May 7, 2014, 6:03 am
LOL LLL!

lainecap
March 27, 2015, 4:23 pm
I think you guys are barking up the wrong quote.

wvwoman
March 30, 2015, 6:09 pm
woof.

marnita
October 7, 2015, 12:03 pm
Meow.

GtrZan
November 20, 2015, 3:36 am
only if my dog agrees

jimdgar
March 15, 2016, 8:28 am
and give him a bone too

kb83
March 28, 2016, 3:43 am
But not a host to his dog's fleas, hopefully.

abra
October 20, 2016, 1:50 pm
As long as your dog doesn't have fleas, and you clean up after it.

maradnu
December 2, 2016, 12:34 pm
That is not my dog

[Eureka]

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. " — Peter Ustinov

JenDiaz72
January 6, 2015, 9:34 am
foreplay... foreplay.... foreplay

montyb
July 5, 2015, 2:26 pm
I like to take it gradually; oneplay, twoplay...

LLapp
November 3, 2015, 11:01 am
As a wise friend once said, foreplay begins with taking out the garbage.

LLapp
September 30, 2017, 6:01 pm
And then, of course, coming back in the house again.

montyb
July 10, 2019, 9:57 pm
Sans garbage?

LLapp
February 26, 2020, 6:05 pm
Yes. Bringing the garbage back into the house would definitely kill the mood.

blueladyblue
April 19, 2020, 7:17 pm
Unless you're into that sort of thing.

abra
May 17, 2020, 7:54 pm
What two consenting adults do with their garbage is not our business.

marnita
January 8, 2021, 7:16 pm
Lol, Abra.

jbb33054
February 16, 2021, 4:33 pm
115

Synonymous
October 31, 2021, 4:35 pm
One mans garbage is another mans foreplay.

universalmom
January 19, 2022, 7:57 pm
LOL all of you

imsoeasy
August 24, 2022, 1:49 am
These are XXX rated comments.

[Eureka]

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality - the other, a matter of time." — Marabel Morgan

montyb
March 20, 2020, 12:39 pm
They must be fraternal twins because they really don’t resemble one another.

pickleball
April 10, 2020, 12:37 pm
waldo

montyb
June 13, 2020, 9:25 pm
Nor do they resemble Waldo — wherever he is.

Synonymous
November 12, 2021, 12:30 pm
He's on page 7 near the bottom right corner.

[LLapp]

"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult." — Somerset Maugham

sznndenise
September 18, 2016, 8:08 pm
Cotton sense.

Persephone59
June 26, 2017, 1:56 am
No, you're thinking of Faulkner, from the South.

Eureka
October 27, 2018, 7:19 am
Does anyone feel the pilgrimage of life is not too difficult?

Fudi
July 22, 2020, 7:49 pm
George Clooney, I bet.

LLapp
September 18, 2020, 12:58 am
Yeah, definitely.

abra
September 13, 2021, 8:25 pm
LOL.

[LLapp]

Rasbury's wrap-up is perfect!

"An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." — Will Rogers

countessofmontecry
November 2, 2010, 7:32 pm
Sometimes a well-placed banana peel ...

skoogie2
July 21, 2013, 12:12 am
True...now fruits can make people laugh...but vegetables? I don't know..

universalmom
February 8, 2014, 10:57 am
squash can grow in funny shapes...I've seen it on the internet

Quizzical
July 10, 2014, 5:09 am
Not a vegetable, but there is a little plant that, when burned, makes people act funny.

mikehallbackhoe
January 16, 2017, 6:52 pm
stick a green bean up your nose and kids will laugh every time

Beagle
May 12, 2017, 5:33 am
Kumquat. That's funny.

marnita
May 15, 2017, 3:36 am
But a kumquat is a fruit.

killdozer
November 17, 2018, 11:07 am
Rutabaga is kind of a funny word.

abra
February 11, 2019, 2:05 pm
Pumpkins turned into jack-o-lanterns can make kids laugh.

imsoeasy
June 16, 2019, 11:49 am
"Palgrave, in his great work on central and eastern Arabia, mentions a curious plant of that country, the seeds of which produce effects analogous to those of laughing gas. These seeds grow in pods, three in each pod, are perfectly black in color and about the size of common soup beans. If pulverized and taken in small doses these seeds have a most remarkable effect. The person to whom the dose has been administered soon begins to laugh very boisterously and to sing and dance in a truly idiotic fashion. He soon falls asleep, and when he awakens remembers nothing of the demonstration made while under their influence of the singular drug." - The Sacred Heart Review, Volume 10, Number 6, 1 July 1893

LLapp
March 1, 2021, 4:07 am
Imsoeasy, what's the plant?! I'm so curious.

30RatsinaCoat
March 2, 2021, 10:20 am
i reckon turnips are pretty funny

Wordigo
August 18, 2021, 9:51 pm
LLapp, my guess is that the plant is khat. (link) “Addiction experts in psychiatry, chemistry, pharmacology, forensic science, epidemiology, and the police and legal services engaged in delphic analysis regarding 20 popular recreational drugs. Khat was ranked 17th in dependence, 20th in physical harm, and 20th in social harm.[25] Khat consumption induces mild euphoria and excitement, similar to that conferred by strong coffee.[1][26] Individuals become very talkative under the influence of the plant. Animal testing has shown that khat causes an increase in motoric activity.[26] The effects of oral administration of cathinone occur more rapidly than the effects of amphetamine pills; roughly 15 minutes as compared to 30 minutes in amphetamine.[medical citation needed] Khat can induce manic behaviours and hyperactivity, similar in effects to those produced by amphetamine.”

rasbury
May 18, 2023, 11:11 am
So, fruits can make us laugh just looking at them or talking about them, but vegetables can only make us laugh if they contain drugs. That's why Carmen Miranda wore hats with lots of fruits, but no vegetables. Thanks to her, we all have the right to wear fruit on our heads (known as our Miranda rights).

[Eureka]

"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. " — Publilius Syrus


CarpeLanam
June 14, 2019, 10:28 am
"Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor."


blueladyblue
August 19, 2019, 2:29 pm
I love it when you speak your native tongue, Carpe. Since I took 3 yrs of Latin way back when in Catholic high school and am practically an expert, let me have a go at translating: I hear the virtue rising; I am a tardy clock.

[montyb]

Plus the likelihood that new comments were added to the thread.

[oddcouple]

Go ahead and post it anyway, hrossa unless it's a very recent comment. With over 1300 posts to this thread, people aren't sorting through every one of them. Somebody will be sure to enjoy it.

[hrossa]

So often when I see great a candidate for "Classic Comments", it's already here!

[LLapp]

"Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth." — G. Campbell

wvwoman
August 26, 2012, 10:24 pm
alliteration abounds!

kb83
October 8, 2014, 1:11 pm
Who is G. Campbell? I'm thinking not Glenn Campbell, the country music singer.

kb83
March 30, 2015, 4:34 am
I still couldn't find G. Campbell-- I looked up Glen Campbell quotes, and this was not one of them. The syntax does make it sound like it is 19th century or earlier.

LLapp
May 14, 2015, 11:16 am
I googled the quote and found the source. The author is George Campbell, apparently a nineteenth-century Scottish Greek and Bible scholar. The quote is from his preface to the book dated 1837 with this title page: "The Four Gospels, translated from the Greek, with preliminary dissertations, and notes critical and explanatory. By Gary Campbell DD, Principal of Marischal College [in Aberdeen, Scotland], and one of the Ministers of Aberdeen." Here's the quote on the printed page: (link)

kb83
October 26, 2017, 4:57 am
Thanks, LLapp!

susanith
October 31, 2017, 7:23 am
1800s, Bible, Scotland. This statement is outright revolutionary in that context.

Wordigo
August 29, 2021, 8:11 pm
"Free and fair flour will forever be found the firmest friend to farfel." — Campbell Soup.

rasbury
March 4, 2023, 4:32 pm
"By the time I get to Phoenix, I will have a free and fair discussion, which will be a firm friend to truth, but will not sit gently on my mind" -- the other G. Campbell.

[hrossa]

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence." — J. R. R. Tolkien

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2014, 3:10 pm
Some people don't like allegory or billeclintony.

wordfairy
November 13, 2014, 4:35 pm
Clever fellow, that bansai.

[LLapp]

"Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom." — Proverb

irisheyes
March 3, 2011, 5:23 pm
is the syntax supposed to be ambiguous? should there be commas after doubts in each sentence? or is doubt the verb? much to contemplate.

wvwoman
February 16, 2014, 4:20 am
yes, commas after "doubts" in both sentences.

LLapp
March 30, 2016, 9:40 am
Tarzan long time this one.

marnita
July 17, 2016, 11:42 am
Who needs verbs, anyway?

MamaB
April 30, 2018, 4:31 am
Try it with "great donuts."

MamaB
May 6, 2018, 3:02 am
I remembered it wasn't donuts!

DrCryptell
September 13, 2018, 2:43 pm
i have great doubts that the proverb is true.

318WOZ
May 24, 2019, 3:36 pm
New proverb good verb. Old proverb maybe verb. "Come on down to Mac's Proverbs, where we really put the 'verb' in 'proverb'!"

Anachronismatic
September 20, 2021, 3:29 pm
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

[LLapp]

"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others." — Confucius

Allen
August 5, 2013, 12:49 pm
After all, if you can't teach others, whom can you teach?

Quizzical
July 22, 2014, 3:47 pm
Way to go Allen. I like it when we can point out the superfluity of pompous sounding platitudes.

BriddlesBob
April 12, 2016, 4:08 am
whew! where's my lexicon?

blueladyblue
December 27, 2017, 9:38 am
Here it is, Bob. You left in the garageicon.

darkyr
August 6, 2018, 4:46 am
Yes, right next to my automicon.

Majka
December 6, 2019, 10:15 pm
I have noticed that a vast majority of these comments are derogatory of the quote, the person quoted or the person's appearance.

LLapp
February 5, 2021, 4:12 am
They're called cheap shots, Majka. Wisecracking. The great American pastime.

Ian123
March 10, 2021, 9:55 am
It's the only reason we are here.

hrossa
September 13, 2022, 5:17 pm
That, and the popcorn.

hrossa
March 24, 2023, 5:25 pm
Oh yeah, learning stuff, too.