Classic Comments on the Quote

[LLapp]

"One who's our friend is fond of us - one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend." — Geoffrey F. Abert

bvwRedux
April 12, 2012, 11:45 pm
A true friend cuts but then stitches up the wound.

puzzleme
June 4, 2013, 4:56 am
Ouch!

insomniac
April 19, 2015, 11:59 pm
A friend will help you move. A true friend will help you move a body.

darkyr
May 24, 2016, 8:42 am
A friend knows where you buried the body- but someone who knows where you buried the body isn't necessarily your friend.

writeon
January 20, 2018, 1:55 pm
A friend goes back to make certain the body isn't breathing, but someone who isn't necessarily your friend will go back and do CPR.

[LLapp]

"The better the gambler, the worse the man." — Publilius Syrus

tavi5280
October 21, 2016, 6:53 am
I bet "Gambler" is what throws everybody off!

mikehallbackhoe
December 31, 2016, 6:30 am
how much do you want to bet?

[oddcouple]

I don't remember commenting on this before, but I got some real chuckles reading it now.


"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled."
— Henry David Thoreau

oddcouple
January 26, 2016, 10:24 pm
I once took my Dyson out into the wilderness and nature hated it.
abra
April 14, 2016, 6:54 am
Do you love it though? We have two, because my husband loved the first and couldn't pass up a deal on the second. I think men like Dysons more than women, and way ore than nature, who abhors them.
LLapp
March 12, 2018, 4:31 pm
I'm happy with my Shark Navigator.
LLapp
October 16, 2018, 7:43 pm
Though I'm not sure where to put all sharks.
Elephino
November 16, 2019, 12:13 am
i kinda love how this comment thread went!
abra
July 18, 2020, 2:13 am
Still haven't taken either Dyson out into nature, but it is on my bucket list.
hrossa
May 20, 2022, 10:13 am
I have an old, old Kirby. That thing really sucks.
kitchenwitch
March 4, 2024, 1:24 am
Thoreau quotes are great bc you can be reasonably certain the word "nature" is in there somewhere

[LLapp]

"I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me." — John Gotti


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Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education.
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kb83
July 24, 2018, 7:18 am
I strongly doubt this attribution.

LLapp
November 5, 2018, 3:12 pm
Please fix!! The attribution does not match the bio, and the bio is for someone who obviously never said anything like this (and probably never abused the conditional tense like this either).

marnita
January 12, 2019, 7:29 am
Is there some new way to report errors, now that there is no category for them with the emoticons?

MamaB
March 9, 2019, 4:28 pm
ERROR Let's try this.

imsoeasy
October 29, 2019, 12:58 am
Gotti said it. It was on secretly made FBI tapes.

mmfs83
April 24, 2020, 3:32 pm
It's still not fixed.

pickleball
August 3, 2020, 7:07 pm
The Teflon Don

mmfs83
August 14, 2021, 3:10 pm
still not fixed

LLapp
August 15, 2021, 2:59 am
Even the quote is looking at the photo and saying "That's not me."

rasbury
November 2, 2021, 11:46 am
He should have been sentenced to at least 10 years for abusing a tense, and another 10 for impersonating a mathematician and philosopher.

kb83
March 9, 2022, 12:17 pm
The Gotti-Whitehead negation: I am not what I am not looking to be.

kingbad
March 30, 2023, 9:24 pm
Ah, the infamous "Teflon Philosopher".