Classic Comments on the Quote

[marnita]

Unfinished poetry

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "
— Paul Valery
montyb on 2013-07-11 02:21:24
There once was a man from Nantuc...
wvwoman on 2014-03-15 00:01:25
...who carried his brains in a buc...
LLapp on 2014-08-29 11:58:39
The more he decrypt...
Quizzical on 2015-01-11 06:01:56
The less h..
skeeter on 2017-09-01 09:02:49
And then yelled loudly, "Oh f

[ddph]

"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. "
— Confucius

maradnu on 2009-06-26 01:35:51
But it is more fun to curse.

fredsevent on 2012-04-18 04:53:39
Why not do both?

kb83 on 2014-07-02 09:42:59
Or at least curse the candle if you get burned in the process.

montyb on 2014-07-04 15:22:08

http://futureworldblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/you-stupid-darkness.gif?w=630

Annamariah on 2014-09-14 18:48:26
"It's hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead" Nightwish - Last Ride of the Day

dovid1946 on 2015-01-16 15:24:15
didn't i find this quote in my fortune cookie the other day

mtvoyager on 2015-02-27 12:02:18
38 seconds.

oddcouple on 2015-08-13 16:30:01
Are we sure this was Confucius?

loki on 2015-10-04 09:39:12
Thought this was Emily Dickinson. Time to Google.

Andy451 on 2016-04-19 12:48:43
This might be true Confusion, but were you able to find any honest people? For that you might need to borrow one of Diagonal's diagenetic lanterns.

RustySkipper on 2017-04-08 11:01:50
I can split the darkness with my light saber.

[LLapp]

This took six years

"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen." — Ronald Reagan

bansaisequoia on 2009-08-27 23:54:00
"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."--Lord Byron.

bansaisequoia on 2010-07-29 19:24:21
"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."--Lord Byron

puzzleme on 2013-08-29 20:49:23
Is there an echo in here?

skeeter on 2015-09-09 03:27:12
Is there an echo in here?

[aerie]

"All of the significant battles are waged within the self."
— Sheldon Kopp



LLapp on 2016-11-12 08:24:31
And indigestion is your personal Battle Hymn of the Republic.

montyb on 2017-09-12 03:46:04
For me indigestion is the 1812 Overture -- especially the part with the cannons.

[aerie]

"The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people."
— Donald N. Smith


bansaisequoia on 2010-08-23 16:05:32
Garnishment? Do the burgers owe back taxes?

montyb on 2013-09-03 15:22:27
Why those lousy deadmeats!

oddcouple on 2013-12-06 15:17:15
Monty, you made me laugh.

CCCookie on 2016-05-06 01:04:28
From wikipedia: Donald Nickerson Smith (born 1940) is an influential restaurant executive for McDonald's, Burger King and other fast food franchise restaurants in the latter half of the 20th century. His business practices helped shape the modern operational procedures and advertising models for the industry So, not a person of erudition, but a person who tried to sound erudite while going directly to the bottom line for fast food restaurants.

Jalapenoman on 2016-06-01 13:52:54
Cheddar or pepper jack cheese (not the awful American cheese), dill pickles, grilled onions, lettuce, jalapeno, bacon, and bbq sauce (no mustard, ketchup, or mayo).

Persephone59 on 2017-01-15 16:51:00
The IRS doesn't use the term garnishment. Would you like a tomato levy on your burger? Hehe.

skeeter on 2017-01-18 04:21:14
Lettuce not make fun of garnishments.

[ddph]

"A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private."
— Elizabeth Wilson

abra on 2012-08-24 03:46:14
Anyone know what she was talking about?

maradnu on 2013-10-07 17:14:54
yes

wvwoman on 2014-01-25 23:44:22
spill it, maradnu!

puzzler86 on 2014-03-20 19:08:49
47 seconds

chopstix on 2014-07-24 16:45:51
I was curious too abra, I found this link on Amazon: http://books.google.com/books?id=Je4...ess...&f=false (sorry, the site wouldn't let me "lift" the passage) It seems that Ms. Wilson wrote a book called "Adorned in Dreams… Fashion and Modernity" I'm glad you asked the question, as this book looks rather interesting for someone in my trade - I sell vintage and used clothes! So thanks a bra!

abra on 2015-03-18 10:51:01
Well, thank you a bra, too, that was very interesting.

LLapp on 2015-06-03 09:26:30
I love shopping in second-hand stores, but I draw the line at vintage bras.

puzzleme on 2015-06-04 17:26:54
I love the crypto-comments ever so much more than the crypto-quotes!

Andy451 on 2015-06-20 18:15:55
So then our clothes are strange, and our bodies and our societies are not? The usefulness of our toes, the shape of our ears, the existence of an appendix, the appearance of sexual organs isn't strange? Are not the Amish, the Shakers, the Mormons, the Moonies, and fundamentalists all a little strange. Is not Phil Knightj, the CEO of Nike who screams at his employees to make them work harder, a little strange? Was President Nixon and his cabinet not a little strange? People are strange, when you're a stranger, streets are uneven,when you're alone. Women seem wicked, when you're not wanted, the cops have your number, when they chat on the phone. When you're strange. Voices come out of the rain. When you're strange . . . .

abra on 2015-06-27 15:15:10
I like the Doors. I'm not sure I understand all the stuff before, but i like the Doors.

JJ20paws on 2016-10-09 15:04:54
Gaga's meat dress was strange

[ddph]

"We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. "
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

montyb on 2012-02-28 22:24:44
What faults?

Barnabas on 2015-03-27 08:24:02
It was your asphalt, Monty. Or did you forget that?

universalmom on 2015-05-05 13:56:41
asphalt! (snicker)

montyb on 2016-01-08 09:26:44
It's not supposed to be cracked that way?

universalmom on 2016-07-13 05:37:17
Hahaha monty

SwampySox on 2016-07-22 12:06:29
That cracks me up.

[ddph]

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. "
— Charles Baudelaire

Lily H on 2012-03-18 22:16:02
I think most men would probably prefer to have the food and not the poetry.

montyb on 2012-05-24 13:30:56
I like to grill some poetry a couple time a week.

bansaisequoia on 2012-09-04 16:11:51
And, if you slather some hemp on it, you've got a great source of protein, fiber and Omega-3 fatty acids. http://m.newhope360.com/site-files/n...st-protein.jpg

WRQ9 on 2012-11-18 06:20:29
If you have barbecue, you don't need any pottery, you can eat it with your fingers.

locodad on 2014-03-08 10:23:32
after two days of not eating you might eat the book of poetry with his author. I wonder which one would taste better.I am laughing while I am writing this

wvwoman on 2014-04-13 00:54:40
pottery?

kb83 on 2015-09-17 09:51:23
Can I just have two food items that rhyme?

skeeter on 2015-09-26 12:36:07
I like my ode a la mode.

JenDiaz72 on 2016-01-29 07:21:21
Wanna bet... I haven't yet... Damn!

montyb on 2016-04-24 15:37:08
Ham hocks and lox.

LLapp on 2016-06-10 12:38:21
Salami, salami, baloney.

maradnu on 2016-10-14 14:38:42
Give peas a chance

abra on 2016-11-09 18:14:30
Steak and cake.

skeeter on 2017-04-09 23:58:05
I like my stanza bella with a little panzanella.

skeeter on 2017-12-13 15:58:46
I'd rather have this nice eclair than poetry from Baudelaire.

[montyb]

"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. "
— Baruch Spinoza

darkyr on 2016-06-14 09:16:33
Must... comment... cannot... hold .... back.

[LLapp]

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[LLapp]

"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself - praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised." — Marcus Aurelius


pipsi on 2017-12-04 08:36:10
Sounds like someone didn't notice their wife's new haircut

[aerie]

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
— Charles Bukowski


montyb on 2012-08-31 20:30:29
Wow! I never knew "Dogs Playing Poker" on black velvet was so profound.

SwampySox on 2016-07-31 17:51:00
Tried that a while back- lost big time. Them there dogs is good.

[munchlet]

"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table."

dybbuk on 2010-07-30 17:43:24
shores our bed?

montyb on 2013-06-20 02:25:40
It could be "shares". But Melville also had quite a bit of maritime experience, so this might be a bit of nautical slang.

zenith on 2014-01-21 04:51:39
I'm thinking it's a mistake - "shares" not "shores"

marnita on 2014-08-25 14:59:44
"Shore" can also mean brace or support, as in "shore up." But I agree "share" fits better in the quote.

highbrow on 2016-06-14 08:26:45
If you put this quote into Google the results are about 50/50 between shores and shares.

LLapp on 2016-12-03 21:37:41
I thought it was snores.

bkmcincinnati on 2017-01-05 02:25:17
This is not a quote of anything Melville said. It is actually from a W. H. Auden poem called Herman Melville. Shares is correct.

montyb on 2017-07-19 12:42:57
I'm with LLapp. If there is anything worse than evil, it's evil with apnea.

[puzzleme]

Cryptogrammers hath no fury...

"Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?" — John Clarke

LiveLoveLaugh on 2011-07-13 00:02:06
Hate hath

LiveLoveLaugh on 2011-12-10 20:56:00
Still hate hath

gryhnd51 on 2012-04-26 21:03:15
I share your sentiments completely!

puzzleme on 2013-07-06 05:27:20
I hath no love for hath, either.

bazinga on 2014-03-02 17:42:43
Haters gonna hate, hathers gonna hath.

montyb on 2014-05-18 15:05:36
Hah! got hath this time!

judy100 on 2015-08-01 00:55:53
He hath to busily play Cryptos

abra on 2015-09-19 14:46:33
Hate hath too.

SippyGurl on 2015-10-20 06:22:32
244 thecondth...

marnita on 2016-09-05 03:48:48
I will join the hath haters.

skeeter on 2017-07-26 05:18:46
Thufferin' thuccotash! This one gets me every time.

[LLapp]

"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die." — Soren Kierkegaard

iltquilt on 2012-07-07 00:05:30
This one is too deep for me.

Queethebean on 2012-07-15 18:36:33
I guess someone must have pulled his barb.

skoogie2 on 2014-08-16 03:00:15
I was with him until the part about pulling it out and he'd die. I don't get that part.

darkyr on 2016-07-25 05:39:07
If you have difficulty understanding Kierkegaard, look at some work by Picasso. At least then you will have something to look at that is just as confusing.