Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

Variations on a typo

(It turns out that "Narda" is a typo -- it should be "Narada," which was the name of a Vedic sage famous in Hindu traditions as a traveling musician and storyteller. But that's not important now.)

"Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know, know to understand, and understand to judge." — Apothegm of Narda

puffybob on 2010-09-22 02:57:23
I was wondering when they were going to quote the Apothegm of Narda.

wvwoman on 2012-07-29 23:55:45
who, or what, is it??

Allen on 2013-01-19 23:38:34
WV: that is the question!

lainie18 on 2013-03-25 03:14:19
I love a good apothegm.

marnita on 2016-05-08 11:20:19
Who or what is Narda?

SippyGurl on 2017-08-18 21:43:20
narda you business

kb83 on 2017-12-14 03:35:14
There was an apothegm of Narda. The pathway of knowledge is harda, One must study to know, To learn and to grow, Don't just act like you're any smarda.

[aerie]

"A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best. "
— Unattributed


maradnu on 2009-09-27 20:19:09
Try to tell that to the survivors of torture and concentration camps.

JCarlosCuevas on 2009-10-12 21:17:09
To quote Jack Nicholson's character in "As Good As It Gets": "Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here!"

bazinga on 2012-03-19 13:30:13
Amen J and M

montyb on 2012-03-31 21:47:17
Key word here is "may".

cheryljean777 on 2012-09-17 02:33:53
So we might as well be happy.

universalmom on 2014-02-14 03:55:40
Good quote, JCC!

wvwoman on 2015-11-06 02:11:51
thanks for the reminder of that quote, jcarlos--that was the best line from that great movie!

LLapp on 2016-08-19 07:17:36
Anytime I see a statement like this, I think of people who have lost a child to illness, suicide, car crash, gunshot, overdose, etc. There is no way to view the loss of a beloved young person as "for the best."

CCCookie on 2017-02-02 05:26:15
I'm sorry -- the key word here is "everything" -- I can't think of an older adult I know who would find this statement true. It's difficult for me to imagine, for instance, how a diagnosis of cancer or the death of a beloved spouse could "work out for the best". Give me a break. Sometimes the loss of a "good" job can work out for the best, but there are too many things that happen in life that just don't work that way. One learns to have a good life after cancer or in spite of cancer, and one can live a good life after the death of ones beloved, but that doesn't mean it has worked out for the best.

NotTooOld on 2017-06-02 13:09:03
After all, this was only said by Unattributed. What do they know?

[GtrZan]

Even as a dog person I thought this was really funny..

"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see."

— Eleanor Farjeon

tjsrc on 2015-02-13 06:24:14
People like to say cats can see ghosts.. Because they like to stare off into space for hours.. But most of the time they're just staring at the wall.. and I think they are just spacing out rather than seeing "something."

skeeter on 2015-07-26 16:42:59
Maybe they're just catatonic.

[LLapp]

Monty's 18-month afterthought

"I'm so poor I can't even pay attention." — Ron Kittle

montyb on 2012-05-19 22:19:04
Then charge it like the rest of us.

montyb on 2013-12-30 13:09:15
Oh wait, that would involve interest. Never mind.

[writeon]

"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket."
— John Adams

fredsevent on 2012-04-16 21:05:04
Dude had big pockets or perhaps they just grew small poets back then.

abra on 2013-07-07 21:06:32
Kind of strange.

dmford60 on 2014-03-01 19:36:44
I think it's kind of a neat thought, carrying a book of poetry with you to keep you company.

universalmom on 2014-09-24 04:46:05
hahaha i pictured some poor little guy screaming something like "grant me thy fair egress from this foul, unvented confinement!"

ericthirdrow on 2014-10-13 07:54:44
Is that a poet in your pocket or are you just happy to have some alone time?

Writeon on 2018-01-18 11:08:00
Ring around the roses,
A pocket full of poets
Ashes, ashes,
Shouldn’t have put that cigarette in there.

[LLapp]

writeon - Wow, what a great comment thread! Thanks for posting it -- I don't think I've ever seen that one. The wit at this site is remarkable.

[Barnabas]

"Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain."
— Sharon Salzberg

She said this after flunking out of her origami class. - Montyb

[montyb]

Edited somewhat to the essential comment.

"America is the only country ever founded on the printed word."
— Herbert Marshall McLuhan

WRQ9 on 2014-01-07 07:20:36
Sheesh, we're litigious enough as it is!

[746tiger]

Like a ghost fart.

"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent! "
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

jnoodles on 2016-11-20 03:01:57
sbd (silent but deadly)

[ddph]

"A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it."
— Paul Ingram

montyb on 2012-09-07 00:55:29
Of course there are times when I seem to be the most obscene of all expressions the universe could muster; the profanity of all creation.

montyb on 2013-07-07 02:23:58
I must have been really bummed when I wrote that.

windsong on 2014-11-02 03:50:22
It was apparently a moment's thought with no foundation! : )

LizardLeap on 2016-03-04 00:34:25
biologically or sociologically

[montyb]

Great example of camaraderie and wit.

"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. "
— Thomas Hardy

bansaisequoia on 2009-07-19 00:06:25
Then why is Altoid putting me in the dust?

Altoid701 on 2009-08-01 19:32:10
Sorry, Bansai. Mwahaha.

momof7 on 2011-03-27 05:50:47
On this cryptogram, I think that you left everybody in your dust, bansai

pootie49 on 2011-04-21 00:34:05
I dont know I think we manage pretty well. He leaves us all in the dust.

montyb on 2012-05-14 19:30:17
Compared to you folks, I'd be happy to get up to the dust level.

Barnabas on 2013-08-20 22:16:50
We are the dust, and Bansai is the Swiffer!

montyb on 2015-07-04 14:05:16
Barnabas, philosopher extraordinaire.

marnita on 2018-01-16 02:54:41
I just got Swiffered.

[LLapp]

"This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind." — Herbert J. Muller

saipanwriter on 2012-11-01 05:20:36
ugh--why not just say a not very bright or reliable cosmic bellhop...

chopstix on 2014-06-22 15:48:58
because it's a dis on top of a dis, rather than one big dis.

kb83 on 2017-06-11 14:02:12
The service is terrible in this universe. It's so hard to find good help these days.

[aerie]

"I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It plainly marks four my revue mistakes I cannot sea."
— Janet Minor


kat on 2009-04-09 16:18:26
Deliberately misspelled words in a crypto? That's a little below the belt.

pootie49 on 2011-05-07 21:44:44
ohhh this is evil to put this in. just evil.

lainie18 on 2012-06-15 23:31:17
Hey, it's witty. Lighten up.

montyb on 2013-07-03 13:21:00
I LOVE this, especially with the misspelled words. Ah, technology! It helps you make bigger mistakes faster and more efficiently.

iltquilt on 2013-07-06 14:38:36
It would be even more evil if it read: I halve a spelling chequer. It came with my pea see. It planely marx four my revue miss steaks I can knot sea. Not trying to give you any ideas Admin.

SKEHR98 on 2013-12-24 05:23:31
Watt misspellings???

marnita on 2015-07-20 16:26:27
What fun!

susanith on 2016-10-02 10:07:42
Fun. Iltquilt, I think your sentence would have been unsolvable.

[montyb]

Laughing at my own expense.

"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

jnoodles on 2013-07-25 10:17:47
Degree and kind?

montyb on 2014-10-05 04:22:12
I have a Master's degree.

marnita on 2016-07-13 05:22:47
In sexuality, Monty?

kb83 on 2017-01-04 05:26:40
You have a Masters for your Johnson, Montyb?

maradnu on 2017-06-30 15:35:52
Good one, kb83

BrainCellKeeper on 2017-12-31 11:13:07
25 seconds!! I realize bragging about that doesn't make my sexuality sound very impressive

LLapp on 2018-01-21 10:31:46
Hooray, BrainCellKeeper!! I know you were incredulous for a long time about the fast solving speeds, and now you finally got one! What a great way to start the new year!

[aerie]

"Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher. "
— Don Marquis


pootie49 on 2009-04-21 19:48:55
They have one - its calle a wife/husband

dbs on 2012-04-09 13:18:23
necessity is the mother of invention-she must have been too busy with dignified stuff.

abra on 2015-03-20 16:11:52
We had one, but we lost it. Where does one go to buy a new backscratcher? Where could ours possibly have disappeared to? I think it must have been in the couch we sent to the Salvation Army. Otherwise, it would have popped up again.

darkyr on 2017-03-24 06:11:58
I went to the Salvation Army to buy a couch, came home with an outstanding backscratcher. Nothing in my science textbooks prepared me for the surprise.

abra on 2017-10-29 18:49:12
darkyr, you're welcome.