Classic Comments on the Quote

[montyb]

"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget."
— Anonymous

JJ20paws on 2015-09-27 07:33:16
so true!

darkyr on 2017-02-18 14:38:33
Who is this anonymous, and why does he have so many friends that don't know him?

mistyswiss on 2018-03-19 06:11:59
He's too busy working at Hallmark to call them.

[aerie]

"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."
— Herb Caen

tabbyclaw on 2011-08-22 03:10:37
Never met a college student?

kb77 on 2011-10-19 09:48:54
true, tabby. or a teenage boy.

kjmcaj on 2013-08-02 19:35:31
74 seconds. I had a babysitter like that!!!!!

Allen on 2014-06-27 03:47:19
You had a babysitter like a cockroach?

DeskJockey on 2014-07-22 03:39:32
My dog can do both of those, plus he can bark all night, too. :-(

dovid1946 on 2015-01-14 14:05:13
you havent met by brother-in-law

LLapp on 2015-01-20 12:03:41
What is it with these morning people who feel they must equate us night folks with cockroaches?

dovid1946 on 2015-04-04 10:21:29
I think it began with a man named Franz Kafka

[ddph]

Cue Eddie Albert

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."
— Proverb

greenacres
Not where I live!

wvwoman on 2012-10-13 04:09:56
where are you, greenacres?

ulua on 2014-04-30 06:25:45
green acres is the place to be!

abra on 2016-12-01 15:00:52
Farm livin' is the life for me --

autumngirl on 2017-02-27 15:22:12
land spreadin out so far and wide...

wshanley@sbcglobal.net on 2017-04-27 04:54:08
Today we are calling it global warming.

slow1 on 2017-08-24 07:52:50
Those comments appear to be one right after the other, but they are years apart. Fun!

kahvecowgirl on 2018-06-01 10:00:11
"...and Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn"

[ddph]

"The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts."
— Samuel Butler

montyb on 2012-06-24 00:20:03
Boy, he described me to a T.

LLapp on 2014-09-05 11:51:38
haha

universalmom on 2015-12-18 03:39:04
Sounds like a lobster boil!

lucky1 on 2016-01-28 00:40:07
I'm glad he didn't take up the practice of medicine.

SwampySox on 2016-04-11 16:12:51
I'm getting a second opinion.

Barnabas on 2017-01-24 14:36:24
Well, isn't he "crabby."

Beagle on 2017-04-28 03:31:56
My stew pan is boiling over. I think it's my pincers' fault.

marnita on 2018-01-12 06:06:05
My pincers are having a hard time with this keyboard.

vintage38 on 2018-03-01 07:55:48
51 seconds

LLapp on 2018-03-30 17:48:08
lucky1's comment conjured a dramatic OR scene: "The bellows are failing! Quick, pass me the needle nose pliers and the duct tape!"

[ddph]

Classic Monty

"Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end."
— Henri de Montherlant

WRQ9 on 2012-03-12 16:03:28
Nice guy, eh?

abra on 2014-02-01 08:29:38
Wow! So glad he's not in my family.

montyb on 2014-02-17 12:12:37
Tell me about it. I have to invite him for Christmas every year.

JenDiaz72 on 2014-09-24 06:28:35
LOL Montyb

susanith on 2017-03-20 01:49:29
Scary. And sad for him.

maradnu on 2017-06-22 14:34:07
Sometimes true.

Persephone59 on 2017-09-05 18:51:35
Monty, why don't you help him find the courage to end the habit?

writeon on 2018-02-06 22:03:20
Oh the courage it took for poor Henri to try to stop going to Monty's every Christmas, but Monty kept insisting on having the famous Montherlant fruitcake.

[Roxanne]

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good. "— Elbert Hubbard

universalmom on 2014-10-28 11:19:15
Good job not splitting that infinitive

dovid1946 on 2015-02-13 03:42:41
Another intelligent quote from the cool Cat in the Hat

darkyr on 2016-04-22 06:48:21
I split an infinitive once. It took several weeks to heal.

maradnu on 2017-04-06 15:30:21
How many stitches did it require?

skeeter on 2017-11-05 07:25:55
An infinite number.

[darkyr]

Ha ha.

Laugh it up. I'll likely have this scar forever.

[montyb]

Teamwork! What a great crew!

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "
— Paul Valery

montyb on 2013-07-11 02:21:24
There once was a man from Nantuc...

mtvoyager on 2013-07-18 16:12:23
Monty's quip really suc...

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

LLapp on 2018-06-28 08:11:57
. . . it."

[ddph]

"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery."
— Maxim Gorky

oddcouple on 2015-08-23 01:59:59
I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go.

oddcouple on 2015-09-12 02:14:46
Not today, oddcouple. It's Saturday!

lainecap on 2017-04-05 15:08:49
I'm going to join the CIO, because everybody that I see I owe.

[aerie]

"Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people."
— Mario Puzo

LiveLoveLaugh on 2010-04-17 09:51:05
from THE GODFATHER

haverwench on 2013-03-26 20:30:30
Make them an offer they can't refuse.

universalmom on 2014-04-15 09:51:40
In context, a scary statement!

LLapp on 2015-02-08 20:08:40
What do you get when you cross a Mafioso with a semiotician?

kb83 on 2015-04-01 04:33:18
A semiot-a-Mafic? An ichthyologist?

abra on 2016-01-23 11:08:04
I have no idea what the answer is (I had to google semiotician), but I love kb83's first answer.

kb83 on 2016-03-30 04:01:38
I hope LLapp gets back to this quote, so we can all learn her answer. Conversations take a long, long time, on this site.

LLapp on 2016-06-05 14:38:28
And the answer is: An offer you can't understand. (Maybe next time I'll just include the punchline with the riddle!)

marnita on 2016-07-10 08:53:24
It's more fun this way, LLapp.

KMMRN on 2017-02-20 06:05:27
I liked kb83's answer.

kb83 on 2017-04-05 08:38:18
Well, I like my answer too, but I also like the real answer. Thanks, LLapp.

[ddph]

quotes-Not sure what Melania Trump has to do with it though.

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

oddcouple on December 7th, 2014
I love quotes about quotes.

Spenser on January 16th, 2015
oddcouple just coined a quote about quotes about quotes.

abra on August 21st, 2015
Spenser just coined a quote, about oddcouple coining a quote, about quotes.

marnita on May 26th, 2016
Quoting quoted quotes about quotes - this could get ridiculous.

marnita on July 20th, 2016
Just ask Melania Trump.

vintage38 on April 16th, 2018
54 seconds

[aerie]

Elbert's most famous essay was A Message to Garcia

"Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. "
— Elbert Hubbard

wolf on 2015-10-06 00:02:41
He wrote A Message To Garcia? Did he get an answer?

montyb on 2016-06-06 15:59:08
Yes. Garcia wrote back asking Hubbard to try to keep it under 140 characters.

[aerie]

"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."
— David Reisman

WRQ9 on March 20th, 2012
A popular quote in prison!

kb83 on May 9th, 2018
May all your sentences end after a period.

[puzzleme]

And the beat goes on...

See Queethebean's post on page 88 of this thread...

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."
— Joe Darion

gryhnd51 on August 5th, 2012
THis always brings back wonderful memories. When I was 16, a "state gleeclub" made up of hundreds of HS students sang this...and I was lucky enough to be a part of it all. To Dream the Impossible Dream....

haverwench on May 16th, 2013
The line is backward. It should start with, "And the world will be better for this: that one man..."

abra on July 27th, 2013
I wish I had recognized it sooner.

nevadasmith68 on September 13th, 2013
Isn't this from "Man Of La Mancha"?

debzhaus on February 12th, 2014
yes it is out of order

LLapp on November 12th, 2017
My last quote was from the song "Over the Rainbow." I better put on tap shoes so I'm ready for the next one.

[LLapp]

"A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch." — James Beard

kb83 on March 31st, 2015
And if you are watching your calories, don't have too many tarts.

darkyr on April 14th, 2017
I have an apple pie in the refrigerator that is constantly checking the weather channel.