Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life." — Henry Ford

blueladyblue
February 4, 2018, 1:08 pm
Whose life? If it's for the betterment of the life of the moneymaker, then yawn, what else is new? And I really don't think most wealthy people are willing to use their money for the betterment of everyone else's life. Sorry, I'm cynical.

jimbo42
November 4, 2018, 7:53 pm
cynical, let's get cynical

Eureka
November 16, 2018, 3:01 am
Let me hear your money talk, your money talk.

[oddcouple]

"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."
— Wynonna Judd


montyb
March 18, 2013, 11:33 am
Oh really? Obviously she has never experienced the guy's butt-LaZboy-cable remote relationship.
puzzleme
October 1, 2013, 5:46 pm
Monty, that's not a relationship; that's a menage-a-trois.
geeko321
February 18, 2014, 8:59 am
That's not a menage-a-trois, that's a bonding at the molecular level.
SippyGurl
August 20, 2015, 6:20 pm
that's not a bonding at the molecular level, that's a mother-daughter relationship ??
darkyr
June 5, 2017, 10:56 am
If only Wynonna had met you monty, her quote might be so complexly different.
SippyGurl
July 18, 2017, 11:09 am
lol hubs just took the remote and retired to the recliner
montyb
March 5, 2018, 12:34 pm
Your hubby is my kind of guy, SippyGurl!
mistyswiss
March 12, 2018, 11:51 pm
Monty, whatever that relationship is - it's not complex.
jbb33054
November 2, 2018, 8:34 am
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rnodding
December 28, 2018, 10:28 am
30
jbb33054
January 27, 2019, 3:23 am
43
skeeter
March 10, 2019, 9:09 pm
These last three comments are deep, man, deep.
mohamm1
June 4, 2019, 4:03 am
Had to Google this one.
montyb
June 24, 2019, 10:54 pm
Wait Misty, 532 channels is not complex?! Then there is that SD/HD decision.
RedEnoch
March 31, 2022, 1:58 am
Especially when you throw in concert tours, publishing and performance rights, music industry lawyers, various exes and THEIR lawyers…

[LLapp]

"You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention." — Buzz Aldrin

Eureka
November 11, 2018, 3:04 am
I need more context to understand what he means.

Eureka
February 18, 2019, 9:09 am
Look at me!!!

Eureka
May 28, 2019, 10:28 am
That Eureka. Always looking for attention!

Eureka
October 16, 2019, 12:05 pm
This comment section is for Eureka only. No others need apply.

Eureka
November 17, 2019, 10:22 am
Glad to see that everyone is towing the line.

puffybob
November 27, 2019, 3:45 am
My guess is that he was referring to moon landing deniers. So instead, he punches them in the face. (link) (Sorry, Eureka, I couldn't resist posting the link.)

318WOZ
January 30, 2020, 10:21 pm
I'm delighted, Eureka! You held the floor here for over a year!

hrossa
June 20, 2020, 9:30 pm
I've found it!

abra
September 13, 2021, 7:54 pm
Thanks for holding the fort, Eureka. That was amazing. I'm paying rapt attention.

hrossa
June 17, 2022, 10:12 am
Now I don't remember what I'd found. Come back, Eureka!

[LLapp]

"Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are." — Oscar Wilde

kb83
November 29, 2016, 11:57 am
Venus de Milo was.

[oddcouple]

"The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments."
— Mad Magazine


nevadasmith68
July 31, 2013, 3:45 pm
HAHA--True!
montyb
December 30, 2013, 2:43 pm
What about white elephants?
LLapp
September 27, 2014, 5:03 pm
Yes - a quote from MAD! More, please.
gryhnd51
April 12, 2015, 9:10 pm
So true....so sad.
opallady
August 29, 2017, 11:00 am
You can get all the things you seek/ For a dollar down and a dollar a week.
Persephone59
January 21, 2018, 9:36 pm
I tried to hide it from the neighbors, but it kept trumpeting from the back yard!
vintage38
March 12, 2018, 7:13 am
35 seconds
blueladyblue
April 22, 2018, 9:49 am
Mad is not right. My elephant only cost peanuts. Still, I had to put it on layaway at Walmart. When I finally brought it home, I put it in the backseat of my car and the trunk in the trunk.
letfreedomring
August 16, 2019, 5:53 pm
My first job in HS was in a credit department of a major department store. I leaned about credit accounts before I graduated and throughout my life found ways to get a zero % interest card to effect changes needed to my home. Suze Orman is right when she tells people to get rid of their credit card debt.
Synonymous
February 4, 2021, 10:42 pm
blueladyblue very funny...
jbb33054
April 2, 2021, 7:24 pm
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abra
September 14, 2021, 8:44 pm
It would scare me to have credit card debt. Suze is a smart woman. Credit cards are very convenient, but don't stack up the debt.
jbb33054
November 15, 2021, 6:40 pm
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figmo
March 16, 2022, 4:51 pm
Even better, if you can figure out which MAD writer wrote the quote, it'd be great! A friend of mine was a Senior Editor of MAD for more than half of its existence.

[LLapp]

The disappearing first comment...

"What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult, or even return the blow, but simply ignore it." — Seneca

chopstix
October 16, 2012, 2:36 am
Very observant of you MissLynx... and it's still there!

Allen
October 22, 2013, 1:25 pm
What would we do without Miss Lynx's observation?

CarpeLanam
April 16, 2017, 11:14 am
From "De Constantia Sapientis (the firmness of a wise man)" "'At sapiens colapho percussus quid faciet?' Quod Cato, cum illi os percussum esset: non excanduit, non uindicauit iniuriam, ne remisit quidem, sed factam negauit; maiore animo non agnouit quam ignouisset." Cato, the quintessential Stoic philosopher, was once accidentally struck by a stranger in the bath, who apologized profusely. But Cato rose above the potential insult and ignored it, to his own and the stranger's benefit. This was quite a fun quote to research!

SippyGurl
September 5, 2018, 2:46 am
what became of MissLynx's observation?

Fudi
January 29, 2020, 12:21 pm
It was given a blow, apparently. We should ignore it, I guess.

Synonymous
May 20, 2020, 12:43 am
SippyGurl, She's now the Missing Lynx.

[LLapp]

"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!" — Terence

montyb
November 25, 2019, 8:09 am
I always tried to be fair and supportive to my son, Prisoner 694322.

[LLapp]

"The honorable gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one." — Charles Tupper

Eureka
December 1, 2018, 11:12 am
This quote definitely needs context to make any sense.

kb83
April 22, 2019, 3:12 pm
The argument was over someone questioning the concept of storing foods in plastic.

abra
October 6, 2019, 5:34 pm
LOL, my mom was a Tupperware lady for decades.

kb83
January 20, 2020, 1:12 pm
Actually he was a Canadian Statesman and a "father of confederation," i.e. of unifying the British colonies in North America. He coined the phrase "Keep a lid on it."

Eureka
October 16, 2020, 9:36 pm
LOL kb83!

[LLapp]

"All things may be bought in Rome with money. " — Juvenal

maradnu
November 23, 2013, 8:08 am
Most places, for that matter.

LLapp
October 23, 2015, 7:30 am
Without context, I wonder whether he meant that even political influence could be bought or that you can't go into town and expect to be buying things with chickens.

judy100
November 30, 2015, 12:40 pm
Money talked 2000 yrs ago, and talks louder now.

Persephone59
October 11, 2017, 1:10 am
Love, sex, political influence. People, too, I suppose (slaves). The usual.

judy100
March 31, 2018, 11:12 pm
Silence too.

imsoeasy
December 11, 2018, 1:23 am
I've been to Rome. They used to accept chickens, now its Euros.

Wordigo
August 12, 2020, 9:46 pm
Follow the money.

Ian123
May 4, 2022, 1:26 am
Follow the chickens.

[LLapp]

"Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of." — Robert Benchley

DrCryptell
June 27, 2019, 2:19 am
Tell me your name and I will tell you how they call you to dinner.

blueladyblue
August 6, 2019, 4:53 pm
Tell me your height and I will tell you how tall you are.

montyb
September 15, 2021, 2:50 pm
Tell me your bank account number and I’ll get back to you later.

[LLapp]

"People have always scared me a bit - they're so complicated. I suppose that's why I prefer horses." — Separate Tables

kb83
April 24, 2015, 3:41 am
Who is Mr. or Ms. Tables?

montyb
August 5, 2015, 2:28 am
I don't know, but I believe they are now separated.

SippyGurl
September 26, 2015, 4:16 pm
Seppy, for short

BriddlesBob
December 1, 2015, 10:08 am
Well, the bit in the horses mouth is complicated and scary too!

wvwoman
June 20, 2018, 1:14 pm
wiki says: Separate Tables is a 1958 American drama film starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, and Wendy Hiller, based on two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name. Niven and Hiller won Academy Awards for their performances. The picture was directed by Delbert Mann and adapted for the screen by Rattigan, John Gay and an uncredited John Michael Hayes. Mary Grant and Edith Head designed the film's costumes.

mtvoyager
December 28, 2018, 7:31 am
I remember that movie.

abra
October 12, 2019, 4:00 pm
I don't know if I ever saw it, but I do remember that there was such a movie.

blueladyblue
June 27, 2020, 6:51 pm
I think Separate Tables was married to Patio Tables. Their children, Dinner and Multiplication, went on to great careers -- one was a chef and the other a zookeeper. We can't always live up to our name.

kb83
November 22, 2020, 8:43 pm
great retort, Montyb!

Jrdad
March 24, 2022, 1:38 pm
Separate's brothers, Billiard, Craps, and Turnthe, worked for the Mob in Vegas.

[Eureka]

(Sometimes an author's name elicits some pretty funny comments, too! )

"Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?"

— Ashleigh Brilliant

kb83
January 16, 2017, 5:49 am
He had siblings Oddleigh, Naturalleigh, and Simpleigh.

SippyGurl
March 3, 2017, 7:14 pm
...and the runt of the litter, hardleigh

[oddcouple]

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. "
— Wayne Dyer

drebosy4eto
March 9, 2015, 9:51 am
Damn... I always thought that "karma" is written with "c" in English. I would have been so much faster if I knew it... Oh, well...
montyb
May 1, 2016, 11:26 am
Karma's a bitkh, man.
killdozer
August 15, 2016, 7:06 pm
My dogma got run over by my karma.
maradnu
May 10, 2017, 2:41 pm
Karma is such a chameleon
pickleball
November 2, 2021, 9:31 pm
hahaha
blueladyblue
February 12, 2022, 5:58 pm
LOL monty. You've kome a long way as a komedian.

[oddcouple]

"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. "
— Heraclitus


kat
February 21, 2009, 6:46 pm
24 sec.
montyb
March 20, 2012, 4:20 pm
Not even once?
universalmom
May 4, 2016, 10:45 am
Hmmmmm, maybe once...
NotTooOld
March 3, 2017, 6:25 am
Three wishes.
toddcmz
March 9, 2017, 5:23 am
"There are many hungers it is better to deny than to feed..."
oddcouple
August 29, 2017, 11:20 pm
A man walks along a beach where he finds an old bottle Remembering the story of Aladdin, he rubs it. Sure enough a genie appears and offers him three wishes in gratitude. The man asks for a brand new sports car. Poof! There it is. Then he wishes for the trunk of the car to be filled with $100 bills. Poof! There it is. He can't think what he wants for his third wish, so he decides to wait until later. He decides to got touring in his car and starts listening to the radio. The jingle comes on "I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener." and he starts singing along. Poof! There it is.
Persephone59
November 15, 2017, 9:31 pm
And they wondered why they found a crashed sports car with only a wienie in it.

[LLapp]

"We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it." — John Owen

ednak
October 13, 2011, 9:27 am
This is true because we are to work out our own salvation.

jnoodles
July 30, 2013, 1:46 am
Which God?

Allen
August 22, 2014, 11:58 am
The one on the left.

LLapp
May 18, 2016, 5:57 pm
No, not that one. Here, check out my new iGod. It's awesome.

skeeter
November 6, 2017, 11:12 am
Good one, Allen.

MamaB
February 7, 2018, 1:06 pm
Good one, LLapp.

skeeter
March 22, 2019, 10:13 pm
Good one, MamaB.

skeeter
April 30, 2019, 3:46 pm
Good one, skeeter.

NotTooOld
May 28, 2019, 9:57 pm
Good one ednak.

badbob
January 23, 2020, 12:45 pm
good one, badbob

Elephino
April 10, 2020, 1:44 pm
good one John Owen

pickleball
April 18, 2020, 7:23 pm
good one, god

Wilbur
July 13, 2020, 8:32 pm
Good god

Wordigo
July 17, 2020, 11:30 am
Good.

Persephone59
March 20, 2022, 3:27 am
You sound like some deranged Walton family! Goodnight, John Boy.