Classic Comments on the Quote

[montyb]

"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others' love to us. "
— Thomas Traherne


LiveLoveLaugh
June 23, 2010, 10:45 pm
Thoams Traherne once again it is Thomas

LLapp
October 22, 2015, 5:20 pm
Fixed!

worng11
November 19, 2016, 10:48 am
I MISS Thoams

montyb
March 29, 2017, 8:14 am
Me too. He seemed like such a nice fellow. Whatever happened to him?

LLapp
March 12, 2018, 7:44 am
They sent him to the vet. He was fixed.

Eureka
November 25, 2018, 6:15 pm
Sounds painful, LLapp.

Persephone59
March 10, 2019, 11:50 pm
But now they don't have to worry about stray Thoam cats running around.

[LLapp]

Kb83 takes spontaneous limericking to new heights

"What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. " — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

puzzleme
June 24, 2013, 2:42 am
If they outwit us, they ARE cleverer than we are.

YorkiesRule
September 29, 2014, 12:31 am
My dog outwits me all the time, but I'm not bitter - I know she's cleverer than I am

Hash
December 7, 2014, 5:14 am
Yikes, Puzzleme! You are too clever to be outwitted!

wordfairy
June 3, 2015, 3:08 am
Priceless! Once again, the comments are better than the quote.

abra
December 16, 2016, 2:33 pm
Well, yeah!

LLapp
April 10, 2017, 4:27 pm
No wonder Francois is so bitter against us.

Capy
June 8, 2017, 9:18 pm
I was taught 'more clever' not 'cleverer'

kb83
June 14, 2017, 3:04 am
When climbing up Mount Everest, Climb only with the cleverest Who've gone before, Ten times or more, But never with the neverest.

[Queethebean]

kb83 for the win again!

I searched & didn't find this one posted yet . . .



"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels." John Calvin

countessofmontecry
September 11, 2010, 3:59 am
Yikes! That's putting a pretty heavy burden on etymology.

MarcusAurelius
September 8, 2011, 11:59 am
verbal diarrhea

pootie49
June 27, 2012, 4:01 pm
I never really considered looseness of the bowels a defect. Is that weird?

wvwoman
March 6, 2013, 12:55 am
i remember my 9th grade english teacher telling the class one day that we had oral diarrhea--we of course thought that was sooo funny!


skoogie2 February 5, 2014, 9:49 am
Yes, one you can control and one you can't. So maybe the one you can control is worse!

kb83
March 13, 2014, 2:16 am
To Calvin, many things were defects!

mikehallbackhoe
December 5, 2014, 7:50 am
either one is a public nuisance

dovid1946
April 18, 2015, 12:09 pm
and if one is laconic , is that similar to being constipated?

figment
March 30, 2016, 3:26 pm
I would say complete silence would be more like constipation. Maybe being laconic would be closer to having gas?

LLapp
January 3, 2017, 8:21 pm
Oh gosh, look at the time, sorry I have to leave so soon...

skeeter March 25, 2017, 8:15 am
I thought it was going to be vowels.

kb83
August 11, 2017, 3:01 am
Yes, skeeter, looseness with vowels, is also called inconsonants

jbb33054
September 16, 2018, 2:23 am
100

Persephone59
October 8, 2018, 5:35 am
kb83, that was funny. It's old now, but it's still funny.

tskaggs6
November 3, 2018, 2:46 pm
From personal experience looseness certainly beats the other end of the poopial spectrum.

kahvecowgirl
February 1, 2019, 10:03 am
kb83, your joke is even older now, and it's still funny.

[LLapp]

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." — Thomas Edison

mikehallbackhoe
November 14, 2016, 3:54 pm
though they may not be the same man

SippyGurl
September 5, 2018, 2:58 am
i think it depends on whether his wife is sleeping with him or getting ready to do some very loud housework

[LLapp]

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it." — Jean Jacques Rousseau

ghough12345
March 8, 2010, 1:28 am
It would be more helpful if this form appeared on the puzzle page itself. Sometimes the error makes it impossible to get to this page and site the error.

BrightSky9
September 23, 2012, 2:58 pm
Not to mention rating the difficulty of a cryptogram one can't solve. (Okay, after awhile, I give up. I've been doing this awhile, but am no expert.)

Allen
July 12, 2014, 11:47 am
What form?

abra
March 25, 2015, 12:05 pm
You know, Allen, the form you fill out, in order to get paid. It would be silly to spend all this time here, and not get paid.

LLapp
April 16, 2015, 4:52 pm
abra . . . . ha ha.

BriddlesBob
August 21, 2016, 8:23 pm
Boy, am I dense! I've no idea what you guys are talking about.....

Roxanne
March 18, 2017, 2:10 am
Well, the pay is nothing special but the health benefits are great. I really appreciate the insurance coverage for vision care and carpal tunnel issues.

LLapp
November 9, 2017, 1:16 pm
What I love is the all-expenses-paid 2-week vacation after you solve 1,000 difficult-rated puzzles. Last year in northern Italy was awesome.

susanith
November 12, 2017, 6:32 am
"The pay is nothing special but the health benefits are great." HaHa. This was my second quote in a row about faith.

MamaB
June 12, 2018, 3:34 am
The form to "add your comments," for those who didn't follow the humor.

Persephone59
November 10, 2018, 7:17 am
This is one of the funniest comment strings ever. Personally, I enjoyed my dream vacation of a week in a cabin in the San Juan Islands with a wonderful new man! Orcas everywhere! Suddenly their population rebounded!

[Queethebean]

"An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled." St. Jerome

badbob
July 31, 2016, 9:20 pm
I'm not going anywhere with him until he cheers up

MamaB
October 8, 2016, 3:39 am
Agreed.

badbob
June 18, 2018, 12:10 pm
Jerome, you're off the cruise

[Eureka]

Some quotes just hit too close to home.

"The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. "
— Samuel Johnson

montyb
September 10, 2013, 1:20 pm
Oh my lord, I'm chained to this computer.

LLapp
November 27, 2015, 8:12 pm
Just one more cryptogram...

SwampySox
May 4, 2016, 6:00 am
Another 12 step program.

marnita
July 24, 2016, 5:25 am
I do not have a problem with cryptograms. The fact that I can't stop playing them . . . .

darkyr
June 7, 2017, 10:38 am
Just 12 more cryptograms. That's my 12 step program.

badbob
June 16, 2018, 8:08 am
it is 12 steps from the fridge to my computer

montyb
December 26, 2018, 2:07 pm
And I'm still here.

[VikramSidhu]

thanks for sharing

[LLapp]

"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still." — Georg Lichtenberg

GtrZan
August 21, 2013, 12:20 am
I like this sentiment, never heard of the speaker though

Allen
February 23, 2014, 3:32 am
It's Frau Lichtenberg's boy, Georg.

montyb
July 13, 2014, 5:49 am
"boy Georg"

[LLapp]

"True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility." — Bryant H. McGill

abra
September 5, 2018, 2:19 pm
Born with a silver Thesaurus in his mouth.

[oddcouple]

About everyone's favorite subject.

"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."
— Robert Henri

kjmcaj
April 17, 2013, 7:28 pm
75 seconds
nevadasmith68
August 8, 2013, 11:51 pm
Great quote.
wvwoman
February 4, 2014, 4:43 am
i had "sex" instead of "sea"--and it wasn't 'til i read the solved quote that i realized it had corrected itself. i think sex makes way more sense in this quote...!
TalesFromTheCrypto
August 26, 2015, 2:47 am
"potent power" is kind of redundant. I do like to look at the ocean though.
abra
January 17, 2016, 1:25 pm
I had SEX too. It didn't seem like a bad way to start a quote.
gvbken7
November 23, 2016, 5:05 pm
I wanna have sex too
LLapp
December 13, 2016, 8:00 pm
I try not to have sex when I start a quote, because it would kill my average solve time. I guess if you're playing for the 100% solve rate and time doesn't matter, then you could start with sex and maybe a crossword puzzle or two to set the mood.
maradnu
January 8, 2017, 2:25 pm
I try not to have sex while doing cryptos - it gets the keyboard yucky
abra
February 2, 2017, 6:46 pm
On the last quote i did, my time was so high, that it looked like there was time for sex.
lertsek
May 30, 2018, 1:36 pm
maradnu, just lay down a towel. Or a tarp.
abra
July 18, 2018, 2:39 pm
It wouldn't be about just any sex. It would be about ''the'' sex. That's intriguing.
Capy
November 8, 2018, 8:37 pm
potent power is tautology

[LLapp]

"There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. The real trick is to keep the biggest slice." — Jay Leno

wordfairy
April 2, 2015, 8:43 pm
Make mine blueberry! :P

SippyGurl
September 28, 2015, 9:42 am
mmm... strawberry-rhubarb pie

SippyGurl
October 20, 2015, 2:38 am
mmm... strawberry-rhubarb pie

abra
April 7, 2016, 2:15 pm
mmm...peanut butter pie.

maradnu
August 24, 2016, 3:27 pm
Key lime

BoggyBoots
January 15, 2017, 3:46 pm
Blueberry pie & vanilla ice cream is worth fighting for.

skeeter
February 25, 2017, 11:19 am
Buttermilk pie. Yum.

marnita
November 11, 2017, 7:03 am
It's almost Thanksgiving - I'm looking forward to pumpkin pie.

maradnu
November 19, 2017, 3:31 am
My wife makes a pumpkin cheesecake that is to die for

montyb
January 26, 2019, 7:58 am
PIE FIGHT!

Roxanne
March 19, 2019, 2:52 pm
SPLAT!!!!

[oddcouple]

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
— Anton Chekhov

maradnu
September 15, 2012, 10:50 pm
Skewered both in one short quote.
locodad
June 19, 2013, 4:35 am
sometimes both just kill you by showing you their bill
nevadasmith68
August 30, 2013, 2:55 pm
That's the truth.
LLapp
April 9, 2015, 5:48 pm
Chekhov practiced all his adult life as a family doctor. That was his primary career.
dovid1946
May 25, 2015, 3:40 pm
so how many mistakes did he bury?
kb83
April 4, 2017, 2:35 am
It's called the Chekhov list.
blueladyblue
June 4, 2018, 12:18 pm
...groan...
pj48
September 27, 2018, 11:43 pm
At least he could laugh at his own profession.
Capy
May 17, 2019, 9:13 am
you loved one gets killed by the doctor and you sue him with the lawyer and get screwed both ways

[Eureka]

As interesting as the comments on this quote are, I am mainly wanting to know if momn8r has seen the link that LLapp posted below.

"Poets are the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. "
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

mazereeuw
January 19, 2013, 11:54 pm
futurity? huh?

maradnu
November 18, 2013, 8:48 am
Futurama?

abra
December 9, 2013, 3:11 pm
Back to the Furturity.

dovid1946
December 11, 2014, 6:10 am
'futurity' was a perfectly acceptable word in the early 19th century

Spenser
February 22, 2015, 2:42 pm
Now days, we just say "the future." I'm not saying it's better or worse. I'm just saying.

kb83
February 27, 2015, 11:04 am
Ah, the futility of futurity.

Barnabas
June 14, 2016, 7:54 am
Futurity, it's the opposite of pastity.

mmfs83
May 6, 2017, 8:36 am
I like that.

badbob
November 23, 2017, 2:09 am
is there a nowtity?

momn8r
February 27, 2018, 3:56 pm
I truly do believe that Miss Hortense Watkins, my senior year AP English teacher, would have absolutely fainted over this burdensome sentence!

Persephone59
April 14, 2018, 9:27 am
I think Shelley was in a rather, ahem, expansive mood, and rather full of himself. Many poets speak of the future, not at all. You see, he's affecting my sentence construction!

LLapp
April 27, 2018, 8:33 pm
Rest in peace, Miss Watkins. (link)

LLapp
January 13, 2019, 10:46 pm
^I can't believe I did that. Wonder if I found the right Miss Watkins.

skeeter
March 6, 2019, 8:31 pm
Barnabas, you beat me to it!

NotTooOld
May 16, 2019, 6:47 am
Wow LLap. I can hardly wait for the mominator to confirm.

[momn8r]

LLapp, what a cybersleuth you are! She was a wonder and could easily turn the sound of the letter "m" into a near trithong!
NTO: confirmed!