Classic Comments on the Quote

[aerie]

"Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection."
— Frank H. Cheley

montyb on 2013-04-06 18:48:02
I had my innoculations.

LLapp on 2015-03-01 14:58:32
And the mother? Hello?

abra on 2015-08-09 14:16:04
Yes, what's the matter with you, Frank. In most homes, the mother is extremely involved in character development.

SippyGurl on 2015-10-10 00:43:41
i guess mother is the home

universalmom on 2016-01-28 15:06:14
Okay Mr. Cheley, but why use such an icky metaphor?

[wvwoman]

i'm also a "parer"--especially of things like "53 seconds" and long rants.
(i don't edit any of the comments though--that's a no-no!)

[ddph]

"When you gamble with safety, you bet your life."
— Unattributed

chopstix on 2013-04-15 19:47:55
sounds like a Nevadan public safety announcement

montyb on 2014-12-16 09:27:45
Oops! Almost bet my wife.

universalmom on 2015-02-02 05:04:51
Hahaha…dangerous thing to do, monty!

[ddph]

Double the Monty

"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. "
— William Hazlitt

montyb on 2013-06-10 13:49:03
Well I am one absolutely fabulous specimen of humanity who gets along splendidly without any self-conceit.

montyb on 2014-12-29 15:22:32
Oh Monty, you are too modest.

[LLapp]

Another one from Monty . . .

"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. " — Thomas H. Huxley

kjmcaj on 2013-05-16 21:14:51
46 seconds.

LLapp on 2015-07-28 18:45:29
What?

montyb on 2016-05-16 08:08:43
He said, "46 seconds."


Monty, thank you for making me laugh out loud!

[aerie]

"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. "
— Robert Green Ingersoll

montyb on 2012-06-23 16:56:09
Most of them usually appeal their convictions.

[aerie]

"Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit. "
— Unattributed

LLapp on 2016-01-06 17:37:10
Nature also abhors a dust mop.

[bonlocker]

"It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it."
Remy de Gourmont



chopstix on 2013-06-02 01:13:51
hipsters pay a lot of money to look like him

[ddph]

Don't let life discourage you - everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
— Richard L. Evans

skoogie2 on 2014-05-16 11:52:51
Hmm, but a lot of people start with a lot more advantages than others

dovid1946 on 2015-01-26 09:02:48
everyone has to be somewhere- said the boyfriend to the husband, when the latter came home unexpectedly and found him hiding under the bed and asked him- 'what are you doing here"?

[universalmom]

Latin-geek humor, well played by puffybob!

"Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid."
— Publilius Syrus

LiveLoveLaugh on 2011-11-05 06:40:14
tis

puffybob on 2011-11-27 02:12:16
from the Latin "tisse"

[jimdgar]

"What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee? "
— John Milton

nu2dis on 2010-05-24 15:15:57
I have a hard time with thee's and thou's

montyb on 2015-02-22 07:41:44
Thou didst?

[montyb]

"The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way."
— Eric Hoffer

fredsevent on 2012-02-05 15:21:55
No. you're totally wrong dude. The wise learn from solving cryptograms and absorbing the quotes. The creative...eh...who knows, they're weird.

spellbinder on 2012-07-07 11:53:09
The creative...those weirdos utter sentences that become famous quotes and end up on this site. Then we, the wise people solve it .

wordfairy on 2014-10-09 12:31:36
Hear, hear!

Quizzical on 2014-10-22 13:53:54
And we the wise people pick them apart for their nonsense.

marnita on 2016-05-04 12:23:34
And complain about their grammar and word usage.

[ddph]

"Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars? "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia on 2010-05-27 19:39:34
Like Betelgeuse, Procyon, Antares, Fomalhaut and Torcularis Septentrionalis?

pootie49 on 2012-07-03 13:46:31
um yup those!

montyb on 2012-07-30 22:05:02
Don't forget Altair, Deneb, Algol, Arturus, Barnard's star, Spica, Wolf 359. Yes there really is a Wolf 359, but we're a few centuries from meeting the Borg there.

kjmcaj on 2013-05-03 23:19:50
43 seconds.

locodad on 2014-04-24 15:06:19
90 seconds

bansaisequoia on 2014-12-27 09:27:14
The Borg are here on Earth! Yes! There's Bjorn Borg, and Sven Borg and Annika Borg and Haakon Borg and Kirsten Borg...

dovid1946 on 2015-01-03 06:03:28
and isn't it ironic that Lou Gehrig had Lou Gehrig's disease?

[ddph]

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
— Bernard Meltzer

bansaisequoia on 2012-10-09 15:50:02
Slightly?

montyb on 2012-10-26 20:46:56
From this cracked egg to another, Bansai.

momof7 on 2013-10-19 14:42:22
I feel more scrambled.

wvwoman on 2013-11-30 03:39:34
cracked AND scrambled here.

SippyGurl on 2014-06-02 10:13:29
soft boiled am i

nothing on 2015-01-26 16:00:18
Ahh - my true identity - I am all types of eggs: sometimes hard boiled, sometimes poached, benedict. souffle or flambe

oddcouple on 2015-05-01 01:33:58
Fried for me.

dovid1946 on 2015-05-10 08:25:30
eggs-actly

marnita on 2015-05-24 07:46:17
An egg is not of much use until it is cracked.

[montyb]

My lord, what have I created?

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."
— Rabindranath Tagore

montyb on 2012-08-28 00:58:18
I can't quite get a handle on this one.

wvwoman on 2012-12-06 17:16:45
the full quote is: "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." is that helpful? (it doesn't help me much.)

geeko321 on 2013-10-21 09:17:20
Monty's comment was a joke. And a quite clever one I might add.

universalmom on 2014-06-09 12:46:46
(can't believe I even got here…:P)

chopstix on 2014-07-03 06:38:51
hahahahaha to the thread of the first 3 comments!

kb83 on 2014-10-20 06:46:57
As a user of logic, I feel shafted.

tjsrc on 2015-02-19 06:39:03
And a mind without any logic is like a knife with no blade: useless.

LLapp on 2015-07-04 14:02:36
And a mind all anecdotal evidence is a knife all handle. (What a fun metaphor -- it can work all kinds of ways.)

judy100 on 2015-07-27 12:14:47
There are many dull logicians.

GtrZan on 2016-05-06 04:47:15
a) I really like this quote. b) I really like montyb's comment, very punny. c) I got nuthin' to add but Mr Spock would love this conversation