Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

My new favorite comment for Spring

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." — Marcus Aurelius

haverwench on 2010-04-30 02:47:11
He probably saves a ton of time on lawn care alone.

[aerie]

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
— Abraham Lincoln


ZeebaNeighba on 2012-01-26 16:26:39
This quote hasn't been verified to have come from Lincoln. http://www.takeourword.com/TOW194/page2.html

fredsevent on 2012-05-27 06:34:11
Do the hustle!

GtrZan on 2017-08-29 03:52:12
I just can't see Lincoln using the term "hustle", but I could be wrong

Spellbinder44 on 2018-03-21 01:46:42
" The Internet is a strange place where anybody can put a bunch of words in quotes and attribute it to somebody famous "- Abe Lincoln

[aerie]

"There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand."
— Swami Sivananda Saraswati



Annamariah on 2014-05-28 17:27:40
"Money or tricycle? Money or tricycle?" - Carl Barks

LLapp on 2016-10-27 17:39:41
He's got it all wrong. We are a clown car, every one of us.

[LLapp]

"Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick." — Unattributed

bwbaer on 2014-10-14 03:52:20
Would you call that "moving"?

montyb on 2015-06-02 09:41:59
Yes, one rock at a time.

LLapp on 2016-04-01 19:36:47
And the faith that opens doors always carries a crowbar.

darkyr on 2016-12-27 03:23:49
And the faith that soars overhead always carries a boarding pass.

Queethebean on 2017-09-26 11:45:31
And the faith that opens jars always has one of those round rubber grippy things that you get free when you open a new bank account.

[ddph]

"The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason."
— Immanuel Kant

abra on 2013-06-12 00:42:21
I just got this one twice in a row.

LLapp on 2014-09-05 18:08:20
So much for the limits of reason.

ruxpin66 on 2015-06-23 12:01:16
Now that I deciphered it, I need to decipher it.

LLapp on 2016-01-08 17:25:11
ruxpin, thanks for the guffaw!

[ddph]

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory."
— Jane Austen

montyb on 2012-11-04 15:08:17
Have I solved this before?

chopstix on 2013-01-06 19:37:29
haha! montyb

sporty1 on 2013-08-11 20:38:45
I forgot she said that

joma1944 on 2013-10-27 06:29:03
what were we talking about?

JD_1947 on 2014-11-21 05:53:22
I'm lost . . I think I just had a senior moment. . .

Yesterdays on 2014-12-10 19:05:24
Mark

LLapp on 2015-02-13 19:39:30
Jane Austen . . . . rings a bell . . . I think she was in my English class.

fishbum on 2015-02-23 10:33:15
Does the name quasimodo ring a bell?

kb83 on 2015-04-09 05:07:56
And the second most wonderful is memory.

LLapp on 2015-08-22 19:39:54
kb83, that gave me a very big laugh.

Persephone59 on 2017-04-14 21:46:35
OK, fishbum, your note is over 2 years old, but it IS funny. I call SANCTUARY!

abra on 2017-09-17 19:01:05
It does ring a bell.

[BrainCellKeeper]

"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!

Thanks, LLapp!
I had no idea you would have seen my comments on that, and remembered me.
I love this thread. It's quite entertaining. Incidentally, I took someone's suggestion and went to youtube to see bansaisequioa's videos of his quick solves. That was enlightening and helpful.

[aerie]

"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves."
— Pierre Charron


montyb on 2013-05-17 22:58:57
Peel-n-stick name tags might help.

universalmom on 2014-05-27 06:09:23
Hahahaha…nice monty

maradnu on 2017-07-09 14:49:52
It's such a drag to try to read the name tags in our clothes while wearing them, and people get so upset if I take them off to look.

Nollij on 2017-10-21 07:35:38
We're getting a mini-education when blitz solving many of these.

[aerie]

"At age 50, every man has the face he deserves."
— George Orwell


montyb on 2013-01-12 21:15:02
YE GODS!!!!

Queethebean on 2013-03-05 16:42:42
Yikes. I must have done something wrong.

marnita on 2015-04-15 11:43:33
Does this go for women too, or just men?

LLapp on 2015-04-24 17:03:03
I wear the face I keep in a jar by the door.

maradnu on 2016-07-12 15:03:30
So the "L" stands for Eleanor?

[montyb]

Edited somewhat to the funny comments.

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. "
— Tennessee Williams

SwampySox on 2016-03-18 05:30:44
I'm 67,814 secs stranger than most, thanks to my sister Blanche.

LLapp on 2016-04-11 06:40:36
^ I can see why you changed your name to Stella! Can you imagine Marlon Brando standing in the street howling "SWAMPYSOX!!!"?

[LLapp]

Thanks, LLapp!
I had no idea you would have seen my comments on that, and remembered me.
I love this thread. It's quite entertaining. Incidentally, I took someone's suggestion and went to youtube to see bansaisequioa's videos of his quick solves. That was enlightening and helpful.

BrainCellKeeper, I definitely have seen your incredulous comments about fast solving times! I was delighted to notice that at some point you seemed to discover that they are for real. (Most of us doubted the super-fast record times at first; the videos really do help.) When I saw that you posted your own 25-second solve time, on New Year's Eve no less, I was genuinely happy for you. Congratulations on sticking with it and breaking through!

[LLapp]

"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer." — D.H. Lawrence

Barnabas on 2012-05-03 13:40:55
I wonder what a conversation between this guy and Yogi Berra would sound like?

bansaisequoia on 2012-10-16 14:58:17
Hey, D.H., let's take a look in the old pic-a-nic basket.

Lurker on 2013-01-24 00:23:54
Wrong Yogi, Ban.

[BriddlesBob]

And Yesterday's Questions are Today's......Questions

[LLapp]

"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human." — Desiderius Erasmus


Bob Musel on 2010-12-13 20:41:13
Gives you something to think about. Very deep.

universalmom on 2014-05-29 02:09:49
Folly, illusion, deception and ignorance are our starting points - the fascinating thing about life is figuring out how to move beyond them.

montyb on 2014-06-06 08:38:02
Folly, illusion, deception is my golf game.

JD_1947 on 2015-01-05 07:16:10
. . folly . . I always liked that word . . .

marnita on 2015-09-25 07:53:02
Folly - a good name for a cat.

LLapp on 2015-09-26 17:35:22
Deck the halls with boughs of folly.

darkyr on 2017-06-02 08:47:27
It's a good set of names for four cats. Perhaps four mutant teenage ninja cats, who, in a fit of instinct, ate the wise master rat who sought to teach them.

[Annamariah]

"No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible."
— Baudjuin

montyb on 2014-01-03 15:21:14
Oh god, I'll never get this puzzle!

LLapp on 2014-09-28 16:26:53
Error: Please add comma after "success."

LLapp on 2016-08-16 08:03:44
Again: Please add the comma! It would signal that the word after it is "if" and not "of". Its absence threw me off into "of" again.

LLapp on 2017-07-13 16:41:55
Well, here I am again, no thanks to that missing comma.

LLapp on 2017-10-10 11:23:15
I think we can all agree that the comma problem is preventing me from ever solving this puzzle.

marnita on 2018-03-21 13:39:43
No, LLapp, it's your fear of failure.