Classic Comments on the Quote

[munchlet]

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
— Susan Sontag

LLapp on 2014-10-09 12:13:28
Now that I've seen a few of Susan Sontag's quotes, I get the impression that she built her sentences mainly out of big abstract nouns that she glued together with a series of prepositional phrases, like a protein chain. Oh if I had been her editor, I'd have forced her to write an entire book in metaphor.

[LLapp]

"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope." — Pope John XXIII

GtrZan on 2015-02-23 09:09:32
yeah, this happens to me too.

[munchlet]

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. "
— Malachi Pancoast

montyb on 2014-02-27 23:05:18
I solved this inane bit of tripe!!!!

[abra]

"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope." — Pope John XXIII

GtrZan on 2015-02-23 09:09:32
yeah, this happens to me too.

Really, really, great comment. I've laughed over it more than once.

[wvwoman]

"Desperate affairs require desperate remedies."
— Horatio Nelson

JenDiaz72 on 2015-12-17 11:14:08
Whiskey!

saipanwriter on 2016-01-11 23:55:21
penicillin

[montyb]

Not tooting my own horn.

LLapp's rejoinder is what makes this hilarious.

"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."
— Dale Carnegie

montyb on 2014-08-10 11:02:24
I certainly will do so, Hale.

LLapp on 2015-05-13 16:10:28
Oh Molty, that's what I was going to say!

[LLapp]

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. " — John Ruskin

maradnu on 2009-02-22 00:54:19
Baloney.

bansaisequoia on 2009-09-16 18:08:53
It took Michelangelo four years to complete the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Roxanne on 2013-08-26 02:11:08
Only because it was hard for him to get the hands right.

[Annamariah]

"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

bansaisequoia on 2009-05-23 20:09:43
What if I can't read Kant?

maradnu on 2010-09-07 01:22:00
You kan't?

haverwench on 2010-09-28 02:30:37
I think "if you wanted" is the important phrase.

montyb on 2012-03-13 15:08:33
What if you joke about Kant?

montyb on 2012-06-05 19:38:30
The Wrath of Kant.

bazinga on 2012-11-15 22:23:50
Hey, I liked Kant!

locodad on 2012-11-21 04:17:53
you kant do it you kant

puzzleme on 2013-05-26 01:50:41
Why kant you all behave here?!

maradnu on 2013-10-10 14:33:02
Kant we all just get along?

montyb on 2014-01-07 04:42:53
Actually I want to share a Coke with someone else.

wvwoman on 2014-04-21 16:14:19
i also wanted to share a coke.

[bonlocker]

"Always have some project under way - an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time."
— Dr. Lillian Troll

Barnabas on 2013-03-05 18:49:44
Thought life was too short already.

Suz11 on 2013-06-05 01:26:47
Advice to the suicidal?

Lurker on 2013-08-30 15:00:47
He he... her name's Troll.

Quizzical on 2014-07-16 17:02:27
I've always wondered why, in the frenzy to move to the metric system in the 1960's, time was not metricated. Ten seconds would make up a minute, ten minutes a metric hour, ten metric hours a day, ten days a metric month and ten metric months a metric year. That would be 100,000 English seconds in a metric year. This way a person who lived to be 85 years old under the old English system could live metrically to be 26,800 years old. Look how long the metric system can extend life without even any new medical advancements!

[bonlocker]

"They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable."
— Joan McIntosh

LLapp on 2015-01-06 18:21:18
I thought it was because they have a common enemy.

[montyb]

Wow, Bonlocker! I just played that puzzle today and thought it was a good candidate for this thread.

[bonlocker]

"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
— Philip Dormer Stanhope



fishbum on 2011-10-30 21:22:20
He'd flip out to see young people today.

puzzleme on 2013-05-07 03:18:54
A Whig in a wig. What a wag.

[bonlocker]

Wow, Bonlocker! I just played that puzzle today and thought it was a good candidate for this thread.

I'm finding way too many I find worthy of being on here. Almost can't make up my mind

[bonlocker]

"I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you? " — George S. Patton

Queethebean on 2013-03-26 17:55:30
I guess he liked to be on top.

wvwoman on 2014-05-15 06:04:14
lots of folks do!

[bonlocker]

apologies if I'm posting too fast,too many

"Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around."
— Rick Reilly

LLapp on 2014-09-30 08:46:09
I had no idea that golf was such a brutal game until I started doing these cryptograms.