Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."— Karl Marx

abra
June 27, 2011, 3:38 am
Does this make sense?

ZeebaNeighba
June 30, 2012, 12:12 am
It makes sense after a couple of glasses of vodka

Lily H
May 2, 2013, 2:25 am
Something seems to be missing from this quote. It doesn't make sense as it is. It might be translated incorrectly.

nehiyawiskwewniya
September 13, 2013, 3:21 pm
A bloody mary would make me happy!

kb83
July 16, 2014, 9:07 am
In an on-line QA thread: ' I believe it is actually a mis-quote or possibly translations from German. It reads better...' "History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; "experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy". Marx, Letter to His Father (1837)

skoogie2
September 7, 2014, 2:48 am
thanks, kb, cryptos thank the most helpful that make the most people helped.

[Eureka]

"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. " — Ludwig Wittgenstein

bansaisequoia
June 30, 2009, 10:33 pm
I'm not going to go into the ring with Wittgenstein.

dovid1946
January 31, 2015, 3:35 am
he looks like one tough welterweight

LLapp
February 14, 2017, 7:39 pm
I'll never forget the time he knocked out Bertrand Russell in one round.

abra
July 16, 2020, 10:16 pm
You spend all those years getting a Thinkology Degree, and then you have to get into a boxing ring?

rasbury
May 22, 2021, 10:46 pm
I've talked with philosophers, and the discussions do indeed get pretty rough.

kb83
May 29, 2023, 6:17 pm
think like a butterfly, probe like a bee?

[LLapp]

Badbob cracked me up.


"Laughter is the first evidence of freedom." — Rosario Castellanos

BrainCellKeeper
April 15, 2017, 6:59 am
45 seconds Yeah, but really - how does someone solve this in 7 seconds? Is the computer doing it?

imsoeasy
January 2, 2019, 4:09 pm
Pro typists can do 50-80 WPM while the REALLY FAST can go up 120 WPM. The best I could ever do, keeping errors down (that was important when I learned using an eraser for corrections), was around 30-35. This quote has 7 words. nanrich did it in 7 seconds. That equals 60 WPM. Also, some people's brains just work faster kinda like computers. So, I guess you could say that this was solved by a fast nanrich computer.

montyb
April 29, 2020, 12:38 pm
Words per minute is a meaningless statistic for this site. To use such a figure on this quote, one would have to make 42 keystrokes including spaces and punctuation. However, with automatic cursor advance and auto fill-in, one only needs 17 keystrokes to complete it.

badbob
January 9, 2022, 5:35 am
The Manatee Typing Academy measured our speed with calendars.

[LLapp]

"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it." — Mark Twain

paulk190
December 27, 2010, 9:27 pm
Wonted? I thought I'd screwed something up until I checked it.

Mainelyquotes
April 26, 2013, 12:35 pm
Yeah, me too.

abra
January 3, 2014, 2:55 pm
Me three.

Quizzical
May 11, 2014, 4:00 am
Not used much any more. I am wont to throw it in conversation just to keep everyone on their toes, once in a while.

kb83
June 5, 2015, 3:16 am
But is it "wonted" or "wont" ?

abra
April 3, 2016, 6:11 pm
That's what got me, this time. I thought it should be "wont"

obsessedreader8
November 25, 2017, 1:26 am
WONTED!

kahvecowgirl
December 17, 2018, 7:42 am
DEAD OR ALIVE

[Eureka]

"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

318WOZ
January 5, 2020, 9:39 pm
Ugh. Semicolon instead of a blasted comma splice! I don't even care what he said without that semicolon. :/

LLapp
December 23, 2020, 2:29 am
318WOZ, you are my hero.

kb83
December 6, 2021, 3:47 pm
The comma is only half the thought separator; the other half is the dot.

[Eureka]

"We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us." — Eric Hoffer

dovid1946
May 20, 2015, 5:08 am
i actually fell asleep in the middle of solving this one.

montyb
January 7, 2016, 10:57 pm
I'll bet you used some strong language when you woke.

[Eureka]

"I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things." — George Robert Gissing

puffybob
May 28, 2013, 2:09 am
I hear he kept his own best-smeller list.

[Eureka]

(I don't know, rasbury. )

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
— Anatole France

rasbury
February 26, 2021, 11:17 pm
It's about differentiating between what you know you know, what you don't know you know, what you know you don't know, and what you don't know you don't know. Trust me, I know.

rasbury
August 12, 2021, 1:08 pm
I used to know, but I forgot. I should have memorized it.

rasbury
November 23, 2023, 10:51 pm
Is this going to be on the test?

[Eureka]

(Classic darkyr! )

"Carry laughter with you wherever you go." — Hugh Sidey

darkyr
April 12, 2017, 8:35 am
I keep some in my pocket, but then I forget to take it out when I do laundry. I think it really amuses the washer.

[LLapp]

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight." — Joseph Joubert

kb83
October 23, 2017, 3:47 am
Interesting observation-- the opposite of pregnancy.

LLapp
March 9, 2020, 11:08 pm
I was thinking that also -- the body conceives in delight and brings forth in pain.

blueladyblue
April 16, 2020, 5:39 pm
So that's why my brain hurts.

blueladyblue
November 26, 2021, 7:27 pm
Ouch. There it goes again.

darkyr
September 15, 2022, 9:50 am
I've decided to name this next thought Herbert after a thought that my grandfather had.

[kb83]

Wonderful limerick from kb83!

I searched online for each line of kb83's verse and came up with nothing, so I assume it's an original. Brilliant!!


"Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus." Susan Longacre

kb83 on 2015-10-07 04:24:12
I tried to jump over a cactus/ My quadruceps needed the practus./ I'd no cause to fear it/ But soon lost my spirit / With my corpus no longer intactus.

Okay, full confession, I actually wrote this one at a family reunion when I was about 10 or 12. My wonderful Aunt hosting the reunion had prepared opening lines of limericks on little bits of paper, which we all had to draw out of jars, and then complete, and I think this is when I first developed a kind of mania for limericks. This Aunt loved writing funny poetry, sometimes imitating the style of Ogden Nash, who was one of her favorites. Once I've written a limerick, I usually (but not always) remember it, because the process of getting it done tends to lodge it in the brain.

[oddcouple]

"You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you."
— Astrid Alauda

crossland68
April 12, 2013, 3:40 pm
Not guilty by reason of insanity.
locodad
June 5, 2013, 1:17 am
most of us are.
montyb
June 26, 2014, 8:24 am
My case was a hung jury.
kb83
December 9, 2014, 4:50 am
I'd like a new venue.
mazereeuw
February 18, 2015, 4:12 pm
I'm worried that this judge is an idiot.
marnita
February 27, 2015, 8:53 am
Innocent until proven guilty.
MatthewReynolds
October 2, 2015, 5:58 am
I remand myself to my own custody.
JJ20paws
February 11, 2017, 7:14 am
I'll take the fifth... Or drink a fifth?
blueladyblue
April 3, 2018, 8:30 am
I am my own attorney, judge and jury. The fix is in but I'll take it.
Jalapenoman
May 16, 2018, 12:51 pm
Off with his head!
Persephone59
May 24, 2018, 10:40 pm
JMan, the Red Queen. Lol.
Eureka
April 8, 2019, 10:55 pm
Guilty as charged.
Elfwin
August 18, 2020, 8:50 am
You guys are all so funny!!!!
montyb
September 22, 2020, 9:10 am
Hey! Who took my fifth?!
opallady
August 2, 2021, 7:06 pm
I plead the SODDI defense - Some Other Dude Did It.
didit
September 27, 2021, 7:36 pm
Terri Guillemets of the website Quote Garden strikes again. Astrid Alauda is one of her 100+ pseudonyms. There is at least one other Astrid Alauda quote on this crypto website, and of course various others by Terri Guillemet using a variety of aliases.
jbb33054
March 29, 2022, 6:05 pm
85

[MadDoctor]

"The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience."
— Barbara Mikkelson

universalmom
April 11, 2012, 7:42 pm
And people are often convinced by something that rhymes.

montyb
July 2, 2013, 11:48 am
Trust u-mom, for it happens all the times.

wordfairy
January 24, 2015, 8:51 pm
With my 2 cents, in I will chimes, Helping commit these poetic crimes.

jval
March 29, 2015, 6:28 am
There once was a man from Nantucket .......

LLapp
September 27, 2015, 9:30 pm
Who put all his words in a bucket...

Quizzical
September 15, 2016, 7:19 am
But when he looked in it...

SippyGurl
December 7, 2016, 1:39 am
he knew for a minute...

jimbo42
February 13, 2017, 8:44 pm
that nobody,s prepared to finish it

debzhaus
September 30, 2017, 12:51 pm
He really should give up and chuck it.

badbob
February 28, 2018, 1:48 am
I'm moving to Nantucket

[oddcouple]

"Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all."
— Robert Brault

dbs
June 1, 2011, 5:30 pm
toujours l'amour. when you swim in the sea and an eelbites your knee?THATS A MORAY !
debzhaus
August 23, 2011, 11:27 pm
Love it, dbs!
universalmom
October 30, 2012, 12:54 am
...put your hand in a crack and you don't get it back, THAT'S A MORAY
GtrZan
September 5, 2013, 8:00 am
Whaaaa?
LLapp
June 13, 2016, 6:09 pm
Even Brault can't stop a party from breaking out.
maradnu
January 6, 2017, 12:30 pm
When an eel bites your thigh and looks you in the eye, it's a moray
LLapp
September 4, 2017, 7:20 am
When in Rome you learn to do as all Romans do, THOSE ARE MORES!
zorak
September 28, 2018, 7:35 am
blech!
maradnu
July 21, 2022, 1:06 am
I think someone touched him - upside the head with a bat

[LLapp]

"Arms are instruments of ill omen. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish." — Lao Tzu

pootie49
July 6, 2012, 4:43 pm
or mustard.

tgreen517
November 16, 2014, 1:19 pm
sounds like someone needs a hug!!

Elephino
August 1, 2018, 5:00 am
but hugs require arms!

318WOZ
January 27, 2019, 9:36 am
When using only one's legs and feet to eat, any condiments are appropriate.

Wordigo
February 10, 2021, 2:07 pm
Hard to ketchup with all these witty condiments.

Anachronismatic
June 30, 2023, 9:47 pm
Sounds like Lao Tzu was in quite a pickle.