Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

"At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work." — Publilius Syrus

pootie49 on 2012-01-21 17:25:39
erm...what if yer a girl?

montyb on 2012-06-25 00:26:09
That is for a girl.

[aerie]

the cure for gray hair

"There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
— P. G. Wodehouse


matarisa on 2012-09-19 16:13:22
Come now. Some gray hair has been cured by baldness.

Lily H on 2012-12-17 01:53:19
My gray hair is cured by my hairdresser.

kjmcaj on 2013-03-09 20:02:31
grow old gracefully and accept it!!

puzzleme on 2013-10-21 19:17:09
Bite your tongue, kjmcaj.

montyb on 2014-07-04 05:17:02
On my driver's license, under hair color it says "flesh".

universalmom on 2015-01-15 10:36:06
Hahaha no way, really?!

mikehallbackhoe on 2015-01-28 09:03:59
I can only imagine how relieved the french were when hair dye became available

dovid1946 on 2015-02-26 05:18:39
The English used the axe for centuries before the guillotine.

abra on 2015-06-07 13:23:08
LOL, Mike.

kb83 on 2015-06-30 03:37:54
Just a little off the top please.

[LLapp]

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." — Aristotle

puzzleme on 2013-05-27 11:30:43
Shows them what?

montyb on 2015-06-29 17:18:38
Shows them how fortunate they are to not really be your friends.

[ddph]

25 letters used. Not quite funny, but....

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
— Marlene Dietrich

PianoManGidley on 2011-02-05 11:40:44
Every letter but K!

puzzleme on 2013-05-03 05:56:30
I love quotations, too. That's half the reason I am a crypto-addict.

kjmcaj on 2013-05-29 13:19:38
127 seconds.

skoogie2 on 2013-10-02 15:46:22
and there she is with one!

universalmom on 2014-02-19 13:26:23
You can see why this one got included!

locodad on 2014-03-08 16:03:47
should we go to cryptolic anynomus? only if they let us solve some cryptos so we won't fall asleep with their boring speeches. 96 secomds

nanrich on 2014-08-13 04:49:24
Hmm, which do I like more, the quote or the puzzle? Hard to say....

kb83 on 2014-09-13 15:40:52
If only she had said "like" instead of "love"!

JD_1947 on 2014-11-07 17:39:36
Marlene, quite the gal, and she's one of us too . . .

oddcouple on 2014-12-14 04:47:26
It doesn't take very long on here to finds quotes by ignorant people.

dovid1946 on 2015-03-14 17:34:44
Is there a quote out there in cryptoland that uses all the letters of the alphabet? Getting close with this one.

Annamariah on 2016-12-13 00:55:42
I have yet to encounter one.

darkyr on 2017-03-27 04:42:11
It is such a joy to have found this quote, because it is exactly what I have always thought, and everyone knows Marlene is much wiser than I am.

[ddph]

"Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house."
— Unattributed

vivian1874 on 2013-05-26 04:18:56
duh?

crypto! on 2013-08-22 04:17:39
yeeees 430 points!!! XD

butchs non brain on 2014-04-13 15:43:12
428 points.Wow.

locodad on 2014-06-16 13:16:24
119 secomds

locodad on 2014-11-24 09:00:27
69 seconds

tskaggs6 on 2015-05-09 08:34:59
Just to jump on the bandwagon, 442 points.

ajbcurate on 2016-10-28 10:24:15
They must have changed the difficulty. I got 297 points for solving it in 17 seconds.

oddcouple on 2017-05-06 00:09:56
They must have changed the difficulty. I got 297 points for solving it in 17 seconds.

SippyGurl on 2017-07-22 14:32:26
They must have changed the difficulty. I got 297 points for solving it in 17 seconds.

marnita on 2017-09-17 12:01:39
I'm with Vivian - duh?

[aerie]

but what if your goal is to do cryptograms?

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. "
— Robert A. Heinlein


paulk190 on 2010-07-21 22:00:09
Strangely self referential. Enslaved by cryptograms.

Lil0 on 2013-09-01 15:10:49
Hence, cultivate only those habits you wish to have master you. [I don't remember who said that, but the phrase certainly stuck in my head!!]

abra on 2014-11-13 13:17:39
Better to be enslaved by cryptograms, than by trivia.

dddeedee on 2015-04-08 01:18:43
I thought he was talking about me doing Cryptograms!!

LLapp on 2015-12-08 18:03:47
Not to worry, he was talking about me.

tskaggs6 on 2016-10-06 15:41:59
Generally I find Heinlein to be an idiot. But in this case I think he's on to something.

munchlet on 2017-01-06 11:40:49
Whew, LLapp. What a relief that the rest of us are off the hook here. By the way, lose that hyphen.

marnita on 2017-05-23 09:32:56
As addictions go, cryptograms are probably one of the best. And yes, I agree, the hyphen should go.

[aerie]

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."
— Douglas Pagels


montyb on 2014-09-13 05:47:46
I usually just color.

[ddph]

"Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."
— Charles Reade

eis on 2010-01-09 02:59:23
wow! tough one

gryhnd51 on 2012-10-23 03:05:20
grrrr....I HATE this quote.

chopstix on 2013-04-17 03:59:42
go laura!

puzzleme on 2013-05-03 06:19:33
Oh, Reade! You so(w) and so(w)!

vivian1874 on 2013-06-01 13:39:34
sow

abra on 2015-08-23 18:46:54
Laura still has the record for this quote. She did her last quote in April of 2010, and she is still in 17th place. WOW!

marnita on 2015-09-13 10:27:27
These sow/reap quotes always throw me for a loop.

Andy451 on 2015-10-17 13:27:59
So a spud and you reap a dud. Sow a teepee and you weap a Humvee. Sow the stash and you reap some cash. Snow a then and you reap a ten. So a tomb and you beep a mushroom. So a huh and you reap a what? So what?

wvwoman on 2015-12-18 11:16:01
andy, how hard do you hit that stash?!

sexytary on 2016-05-04 16:09:47
this is becoming a habit.

Marboy on 2017-03-14 20:39:37
That was so hard - I thought he was talking abut reading for a part

phthelen on 2017-08-25 07:29:41
824 seconds, yet 312 points - goofy.

gryhnd51 on 2017-08-30 17:41:26
Almost 5 years later and I STILL hate this quote! And Laura STILL holds the record after all these years.

[imported_phthelen]

monty, you are hilarious.

[ddph]

"Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming."
— J.P. McEvoy

montyb on 2013-02-24 22:16:10

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=tCotUwReUDs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DtCotUwReUDs

montyb on 2013-11-13 08:44:19
Please ignore the above link. It is NOT what I originally intended.

locodad on 2014-05-04 18:50:09
please ignore the above quote 2

LLapp on 2016-05-13 15:53:29
Please ignore this comment as well.

maradnu on 2016-08-10 15:34:15
I know nothing. I see nothing.

tskaggs6 on 2016-10-28 13:03:45
Under penalty of law do not read this post.

LLapp on 2016-11-06 16:12:11
What did I just tell you? These words mean nothing. Move along.

hasselblad on 2017-03-28 08:20:32
That's all there is, folks. Shows over. Off you go.

skeeter on 2017-05-11 08:09:37
I'll take you dreaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fteMYl0Dzk

LLapp on 2017-09-21 19:10:57
Ahhhhhh....Danny Kaye singing me to sleep. So glad I stuck around.

Queethebean on 2017-10-26 08:50:15
But now I must know what Monty originally intended.

[LLapp]

"I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred." — Unattributed

PianoManGidley on 2011-01-04 03:29:01
No context whatsoever. Can this be removed, please?

opallady on 2011-03-17 00:47:51
It was a dark and stormy night, when suddenly a shot rang out .....

wordloon on 2011-07-01 01:39:19
Quotes dictionary.com says F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this about Hollywood in a January 10, 1935, letter to his agent. It was published in As Ever, Scott Fitz (1973).

octopunchy on 2012-11-13 18:16:15
I hate this quote like robots with synthetic anger circuits.

bansaisequoia on 2013-03-25 20:44:35
I poison the place like hatred with a severe toxicity.

WRQ9 on 2013-07-30 16:36:04
I create this comment like poetry with extreme creativity.

emmatation on 2014-05-05 07:13:17
I place the hatred like a sincere hate with poison.

skoogie2 on 2014-11-25 09:05:11
I would sincerely dislike poison with a hatred of this caliber no matter what place it lived

mmfs83 on 2016-06-11 07:09:17
I got it in 81 seconds, but I have no idea what he's talking about.

LLapp on 2016-09-09 21:19:41
He hates working in Hollywood.

marnita on 2017-09-17 04:37:10
Who could blame him for that?

[LLapp]

"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." — H.L. Mencken

montyb on 2015-03-08 10:37:57
And then the bank statement snaps you back to reality.

darkyr on 2017-04-28 09:03:36
I don't get a statement, I get a condolence card.

[LLapp]

A re-post because the thread has gotten longer...

"Whatever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoelaces." — Hitopadesa

maradnu on 2010-05-29 14:13:28
But he would do it regally.

universalmom on 2012-10-06 16:13:27
That's not all he would gnaw at

saipanwriter on 2013-03-09 03:00:05
I didn't know dogs had shoelaces.

abra on 2013-05-01 21:27:45
Only when they're kings. They get little sneakers when they get their crowns.

cuji70 on 2013-10-03 06:08:14
Or really nice hush puppies

slow1 on 2014-03-15 07:55:52
...such a witty group. Thanks for the smiles.

bwbaer on 2016-08-25 11:15:29
Hmm, I actually doubt that.

LLapp on 2017-03-02 21:30:24
No, this really is a witty group, bwbaer.

NotTooOld on 2017-04-05 13:58:23
Did anyone have shoelaces a thousand years ago?

kb83 on 2017-05-21 14:17:57
And if the shoelaces broke, he would immediately be brought new ones.

kb83 on 2017-10-11 13:31:51
Here, King, Here, King.

[LLapp]

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea." — Honore de Balzac

montyb on 2013-07-08 22:05:37
I confess that I've been compared to the featureless doldrums.

wvwoman on 2013-08-01 14:43:08
that is one homely fellow.

montyb on 2013-11-02 13:12:08
You should see him at low tide.

maradnu on 2013-11-22 06:40:23
Will high tide cover him completely?

SippyGurl on 2016-12-09 07:28:44
no, you can still see de balzac

[Shirli]

Danny Kaye

LLapp on 2017-09-21 19:10:57
Ahhhhhh....Danny Kaye singing me to sleep. So glad I stuck around.

My all-time favourite:

"The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.