Classic Comments on the Quote

[aerie]

"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. "
— Sigmund Freud


chopstix on 2013-05-03 18:11:42
say that three times fast!

montyb on 2014-09-15 14:49:56
That, that, that.

LLapp on 2014-10-30 12:14:47
Poor Sigmund would never have been successful in this age of sound bites.

[aerie]

"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. "
— Joseph Joubert


saipanwriter on 2012-05-22 23:58:28
Can there be shadows in a vacuum?

Lurker on 2012-10-16 21:24:39
Sure, if there's light. Just no echoes.

jeanering on 2013-01-11 03:00:14
they are full of hot air...

momn8r on 2013-06-25 03:24:55
And they will make your blood boil...

montyb on 2013-09-10 14:26:49
Shadows hiding a vacuum is pretty darned abstract.

SolarFlare on 2014-02-20 14:43:12
How many people fail to see the play of creativity underlying the expression of abstraction because they feel intimidated by it?

ericthirdrow on 2014-09-24 07:18:19
I picture massive cardboard cutouts of "abstract terms" casting a shadow that's conveniently hiding a Dyson vacuum cleaner.

BrainCellKeeper on 2014-11-11 14:18:23
How many people read this quote and feel confused because they don't understand what it means?

LLapp on 2015-05-20 17:08:38
ericthirdrow - you made me laugh out loud.

abra on 2015-09-30 13:22:23
I think the answer to the first sentence is many. ericthirdrow (who's name makes me smile) has covered the second sentence. He cut right through all that abstract profundity.

[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.

[LLapp]

Marnita's response cracks me up

"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." — Aristotle

kjmcaj on 2013-03-25 19:39:41


LLapp on 2016-03-25 20:44:02
I agree with kjmcaj.

marnita on 2016-04-04 12:58:30
I don't care what either of you think.

[ddph]

Laughed out loud at the third comment

"There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person."
— Dan Greenberg

Yelircrypto on 2012-10-15 14:43:13
So True!

jobdevaa on 2013-07-31 17:07:13
As a cat owner I totally agree

tjsrc on 2015-02-27 16:38:00
You can try, but it always ends with "FLUFFY KITTY KITTY PURR PURR WHO'S A LITTLE CUTIE DEMON YES CAT. CAT."

LizardLeap on 2015-11-30 07:05:23
I have had the unfortunate experience of hearing myself talk about my cat...it...sounded...crazy....

[universalmom]

"Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy."
— Amy Vanderbilt

montyb on 2012-07-06 20:01:23
What if you're on fire?

[ddph]

"A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence."
— Barbara Walters

montyb on 2012-05-18 00:07:28
Preposterous! Absolute blatherskite!

locodad on 2012-12-24 13:41:53
I don't think they are , because I don't what that means, so maybe they are right maybe I am not a polysyllable person. By the way, can you say polysyllable ten times without making a mistake/

nehiyawiskwewniya on 2013-06-02 16:31:13
Only in her world!

nanrich on 2013-06-21 23:50:40
Indubitably.

Allen on 2014-06-19 04:37:34
Polly Syllables--who’ll ever forget her?

jbb33054 on 2015-04-22 08:27:00
polysyllable is a polysyllable!

abra on 2015-07-26 10:19:32
Actualy, this time I agree with Babs. It must have been some night, Allen.

[ddph]

"The master's eye is the best fertilizer. "
— Pliny the Elder

sputnick on 2013-07-25 19:29:30
Seems like I've been using the wrong part of the cow for my garden...

maradnu on 2013-12-13 08:48:57
Sounds like a load of fertilizer to me.

beerfan95 on 2014-02-17 12:38:35
It took me longer to figure out "master's" then it took me to figure out "fertilizer"

universalmom on 2014-07-10 11:27:58
hard again…..

abra on 2014-08-01 10:55:31
I had Oyster's eye, do they even have eyes? Once I changed it to MASTER's it became easier. Still took 200 seconds. Only 192 more than the record.

universalmom on 2014-08-23 04:17:11
Haha abra, oyster's eye - that was my giggle for the day!

LLapp on 2015-03-25 16:25:26
This quote is gruesome! I say let the garden go and spare the master's eyeball.

fishbum on 2015-06-16 09:06:00
Consider he is not talking about a garden.

[GtrZan]

Really, really, great comment. I've laughed over it more than once.

Thanks, that really made my day!

[LLapp]

"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." — Sir Henry Taylor

montyb on 2014-08-06 14:13:12
For example, you don't really need razor blades!

[abra]

"Don't live in a town where there are no doctors."
— Jewish Proverb


bazinga on 2012-01-22 13:05:51
And don't die in a town where there are no morticians.

montyb on 2012-03-01 12:13:27
And don't grow hair in a town where there are no barbers.

bansaisequoia on 2012-10-02 14:28:12
And don't be undead in a ghost town where there are no metaphysicians.

Carrot on 2013-02-02 05:46:39
And, don't get sick on the high holy days.

montyb on 2013-07-07 02:26:19
And don't give up the holy sick days in contract negotiations.

GtrZan on 2013-10-31 10:05:51
...and don't be a doctor in a town where no one lives!

Prezkot on 2014-02-24 08:19:17
Don't live in a town where there are no village idiots. Lest you become one.

GtrZan on 2014-11-04 08:07:40
And don't live in a town that would have you as a resident

dovid1946 on 2015-02-04 08:07:26
and don';t live in a town without pity

LLapp on 2015-03-21 18:31:35
And don't raise a child in a country with no medical schools.

[aerie]

"Don't live in a town where there are no doctors." — Jewish Proverb

Abra, the comments on this quote are the funniest I've seen so far!
Thanks, everyone, for so many laughs.

[universalmom]

I had a crypto that elicited a rather sad response from JD_1947 about how he had outlived all his friends and relatives. I commented that I was glad he was living a long life, and I hoped he wasn't too lonely. The very next quote had this in the comment section:

JD_1947 on 2014-11-25 12:53:23
. . I always look forward to tomorrow . .

Almost like reassurance! Isn't that kind of beautiful?

[LLapp]

I had a crypto that elicited a rather sad response from JD_1947 about how he had outlived all his friends and relatives. I commented that I was glad he was living a long life, and I hoped he wasn't too lonely. The very next quote had this in the comment section:

JD_1947 on 2014-11-25 12:53:23
. . I always look forward to tomorrow . .

Almost like reassurance! Isn't that kind of beautiful?

That is beautiful, umom. Thank you so much for posting that.

This reminds me of what happened on my screen soon after I started this Forum thread. I had opened late at night with some vintage silliness from Pootie as the first "classic comment." The next afternoon, I checked in and saw that people over in the chat box liked seeing Pootie's humor in the first entry, which made me happy. Then I clicked on "Play" . . . and one of the first puzzles that came up was some famous saying (I forget which) with a solution page that had just one short comment: it was Pootie, saying "Classic quote!"

Okay, maybe you had to be there, but for me, it was magic. Given her choice of word and the particular moment it popped up on my screen, it felt like Pootie was chiming in just to say hello and give a thumbs-up to the new game. I never even knew her, but I've read that she always welcomed new players to the fold.

[Annamariah]

"The nail that sticks out gets pounded. "
— Unattributed

skeeter on 2015-09-18 15:02:24
And the nail that drinks too much gets hammered.