Classic Comments on the Quote

[Eureka]

"We lost because we told ourselves we lost. "
— Leo Tolstoy

bansaisequoia
April 20, 2010, 4:45 pm
Doesn't this sound more like something a basketball coach would say?

montyb
July 26, 2012, 12:53 pm
I'm not certain. As Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, "Just wait 'til next year."

Queethebean
August 2, 2012, 8:20 pm
But as Chekhov always said, "it ain't over til its over".

jnoodles
May 13, 2013, 9:59 am
Surely our opponents couldn't have won on their own account. God is, after all, on our side.

bansaisequoia
July 12, 2013, 5:30 am
Or, as Yogi Berra said, "If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

montyb
June 17, 2015, 1:28 pm
That Yogi always cracks me up with his malapropisms.

Persephone59
February 3, 2018, 3:54 pm
On the eve of Super Bowl LII, Solzhenitsyn brought up deflategate....

abra
July 30, 2018, 8:24 am
Great comments, especially bansai.

[Fudi]

I'm not sure that Andy451 gets nearly enough love in this forum and here is a perfect demonstration of why he deserves it:

"Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world."
— Dalai Lama

Andy451
October 17, 2015, 1:50 pm
I went to high school with the guy, and not many people know, but the Dalai Lama is a huge Mets fan. He has a busy schedule, and he doesn't get out to as many games as he used to. Here you can see him at the airport, watching the fifth game of the Mets vs Dodgers championship series. You don't make a great deal of money as a Lama. But being god has its perks sometimes. Now this particular lama is no Yogi Berra, but if I was to ask you, "Who won the fifth game of the Mets vs Dodgers championship series?", could you guess who won? Do you think Pope Francis Sinatra could pull that of? Match these guys playing checkers, doing a hula hoop marathon, telling dirty jokes, playing ping pong, cheating on their taxes, levitating, astral projection, throwing Swiss cheese at a Swiss guard, and then whacking them with a halberd for charity, and I'm telling you the Dalai Lama will win four out of five of these contests every time. He's also a better middle infielder, and I once saw him play Innagoddadavida by Iron Butterfly on the ukelele. This guy rocks!
SwampySox
June 2, 2016, 11:36 am
Great insight. Thanks Andy.
kb83
September 12, 2017, 10:25 am
Hello, Dalai.
Eureka
January 5, 2019, 12:54 pm
You have a very active imagination, Andy.
abra
April 19, 2019, 10:20 pm
But what about prom Andy? Who did you take? Who did the Dali Lama take? Did someone's dad spring for a limo?
lesliecomelastly
June 13, 2019, 2:56 am
What Eureka said.

Side note, sad one ... last night, while playing cryptos, a different Andy451 got some flak from other users, followed by a comment from MamaB, which noted that Andy has passed away and that players here should give him a break. (I didn't know that Andy died and was sorry to hear it.)

[Fudi]

"A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on."
— Jerry Coleman

Comments on this Puzzle:

rage
March 27, 2012, 9:45 am
I think newspapers will be completely digital before they stop producing pants.
GtrZan
March 14, 2014, 2:20 am
that's just weird
nelnose
May 17, 2016, 3:57 pm
Ahhhhh, freedom.
spacecoyote1966
August 31, 2016, 9:18 am
This is especially true for those of us whose pants are made out of newspaper.
debzhaus
November 23, 2016, 3:41 pm
spacecoyote is funny. almost made me pee my newspaper.
montyb
July 18, 2017, 11:33 pm
My pants are digital...or at least binary.
lertsek
June 12, 2018, 11:21 am
So that's why so many naked people run out on the lawn to get their paper.
318WOZ
February 21, 2019, 3:45 pm
Spacecoyote1966, that's a great cost-saving measure. But I will never switch to digital pants. Nope, not for me.
Queethebean
June 29, 2019, 4:20 pm
I never thought I'd get used to my digital NYT, but I really like it now. Taking a lot longer time to get used to my digital pants.

[LLapp]

To accompany the previous post, here's the original that darkyr tracked line by line.


The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost (1916)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves, no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[LLapp]

"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply and did not take, my heart is like to break." — Akhenaton

Lurker
July 23, 2013, 4:34 pm
When I did this one, the letters representing the word "look" were "beer". While that made it easier to decide that the double letter should be O, it was very distracting!

skoogie2
September 3, 2014, 5:23 am
Its more like what you could have said not taken

montyb
April 25, 2015, 7:17 am
The beer not taken?

badbob
August 15, 2016, 12:12 am
it is obvious that he was looking for beer

darkyr
April 6, 2019, 3:54 pm
So true montyb. May it please the court:

Two beers presented on a bar of wood
And sorry I could not drink both

And be one drinker, long I stood
And pondered the first as well I could
Of the select ingredients of which it quoth.

Then looked the other, just as cold,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was frothy, rich and bold;
Though as the ABV foretold,
They were really about the same,

And both that evening equally
dear In bottles frosted and dark.
Oh, I kept the first as a second beer!
As knowing how beer leads on to beer,
I wandered out into the park.

I shall be telling this with sigh
Somewhere days and days hence:
Two beers presented on a bar, and I —
I took them both to keep me high,
And, may it please the court, that is why I peed the fence.

[LLapp]

"I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons." — Yannick Noah

Barnabas
May 11, 2017, 6:10 pm
Never bring a tennis racquet to a gladiator match.

[oddcouple]

"We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go."
— Guillaume Apollinaire


Lily H
May 24, 2011, 1:43 am
Why would anyone want to do that?
abra
June 13, 2012, 5:49 pm
Nor would we want to. EWWWW.
cellophane
August 6, 2012, 3:59 pm
morbid
momof7
February 24, 2013, 5:02 am
It might start to stink after a day or two.
harmiger
May 9, 2013, 7:07 pm
But we do take his ashes everytime we move
gryhnd51
August 20, 2013, 11:24 pm
Perhaps "corpse" is a merely a reference to your father's reputation?
jnoodles
September 1, 2013, 2:55 am
I know exactly what this means and have been doing this since before Dad died. No more. I hope.
SippyGirl
September 9, 2013, 9:06 am
without context, this sounds pretty gruesome
dovid1946
January 17, 2015, 10:19 pm
sounds like the idea for a movie- sequel to 'weekend at Bernie's'
jval
January 30, 2015, 4:27 am
Maybe if we carry his past advice and love, it would be easier to move around.
abra
November 12, 2015, 3:53 pm
I know he doesn't mean this literally, it's just more fun to discuss that way.
darkyr
May 17, 2016, 6:16 am
I usually just set him outside on the curb when I run into the 7-Eleven.
nelnose
May 22, 2016, 5:45 am
Only if he's been cremated.
maradnu
January 7, 2017, 2:57 pm
How about if I have him cremated and carry the ashes? Or would I just be making an ash of myself.
Jalapenoman
February 25, 2017, 1:15 am
Dad weighed about fifty pounds more than me, so I have to use a wheelbarrow.
Old Alto
March 26, 2017, 7:26 am
I did for a while, but found it hard to keep a job.
letfreedomring
March 27, 2017, 8:38 am
gryhnd51 seems to have nailed the meaning of this quote. at least, I agree....
LLapp
April 14, 2017, 1:09 pm
This is what the coat check room is for.
kb83
June 14, 2017, 4:06 am
This reminds me of the movie "Little Miss Sunshine", (Abigail Breslin), when Alan Arkin (the grandpa) dies suddenly and they have to take him along in the van to make the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in time. This is one of the funniest movies ever!
skeeter
October 20, 2017, 3:23 am
Because it would be a lot of dead weight.
badbob
May 19, 2018, 2:40 am
weekend at bernie's
DrCryptell
June 23, 2018, 9:33 pm
Too heavy unless we use a wheelbarrow, but how could we ride the underground with it?
lertsek
June 30, 2018, 5:50 pm
You could use the diamond lanes on the freeway.
Eureka
February 21, 2019, 3:00 am
Loved that movie, kb83! And these comments are hilarious!
Synonymous
February 16, 2020, 11:58 pm
^Agree Eureka on both comments. LOL...
BriddlesBob
April 13, 2020, 2:19 am
I say, make the "dead weight" outside.

[LLapp]

OMG, Fudi, I thought you were talking about Abra holding back on the content of her comment. Now I realize you were talking about her top-secret formula for returning to add a second comment. I want to know too! ABRA, HOW DID YOU DO IT?

[LLapp]

More showing off from that coy Abra, who apparently doesn't want to share her secrets with the rest of us. Harumph!

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual. "
— Thomas Jefferson


montyb
May 11, 2016, 1:29 am
Well, practice does tend to make perfect.
LLapp
July 19, 2018, 8:38 pm
This quote reminds me of that guy.
Frederic
October 15, 2018, 11:51 pm
Which guy?
LLapp
November 22, 2018, 4:14 pm
The guy with the power.
imsoeasy
October 29, 2019, 12:51 am
Edison?
pickleball
March 15, 2020, 1:30 pm
power to the people!!
abra
May 21, 2020, 2:17 am
I know where you were going with that, LLapp. I'm just going to ignore that. :0) It made me think of that dialogue from a Cary Grant movie. I thing the Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer. I'm going to google.
abra
May 21, 2020, 2:18 am
Here it is: "You remind me of a man." "What man?" "The man with the power." "What power?" "The power of hoodoo." "Who do?" "You do!"

Abra told everything except the last line: "I do what?" -- and then it cycles back to "You remind me of a man," continuing over and over again, just like my sister and I used to do in the backseat on long car trips. Here's the film clip, with Cary Grant as the bachelor, Shirley Temple (age 18) as the bobby soxer, and Mirna Loy as the older sister: https://youtu.be/Lfv1Jx3_PRs

[Fudi]

More showing off from that coy Abra, who apparently doesn't want to share her secrets with the rest of us. Harumph!

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual. "
— Thomas Jefferson


montyb
May 11, 2016, 1:29 am
Well, practice does tend to make perfect.
LLapp
July 19, 2018, 8:38 pm
This quote reminds me of that guy.
Frederic
October 15, 2018, 11:51 pm
Which guy?
LLapp
November 22, 2018, 4:14 pm
The guy with the power.
imsoeasy
October 29, 2019, 12:51 am
Edison?
pickleball
March 15, 2020, 1:30 pm
power to the people!!
abra
May 21, 2020, 2:17 am
I know where you were going with that, LLapp. I'm just going to ignore that. :0) It made me think of that dialogue from a Cary Grant movie. I thing the Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer. I'm going to google.
abra
May 21, 2020, 2:18 am
Here it is: "You remind me of a man." "What man?" "The man with the power." "What power?" "The power of hoodoo." "Who do?" "You do!"

[opallady]

"You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction. "
— Norman Vincent Peale


opallady
February 25, 2009, 12:50 am
And wouldn't that be loverly? Pollyanna lives!
PianoManGidley
December 3, 2010, 12:19 am
"...Just buy my guide on health and wealth today!"
pootie49
June 21, 2011, 5:39 pm
um? how??
montyb
April 9, 2012, 8:39 pm
Just call the number on your screen and have your credit card ready. Operators are standing by.
bansaisequoia
June 8, 2012, 2:35 am
Act now and we'll throw in the Ab Rocket Twister with workout DVD--absolutely free!!!
opallady
September 30, 2012, 10:05 pm
Buy our big bright green pleasure machine!
abra
August 30, 2013, 3:02 pm
He sold a lot of books over the decades.
DeskJockey
June 13, 2014, 3:45 am
People living in competition, but all I want is to have my peace of mind......YEAHHH!!!
SippyGirll
December 29, 2014, 7:00 am
don't worry, be happy
windsong
February 18, 2015, 9:31 am
But wait....there's more......
pegxpeg
May 18, 2015, 12:41 pm
Ask about our E-Z payment plan.
Quizzical
September 18, 2016, 2:13 am
Well, he did live a long life.
MamaB
October 17, 2017, 2:46 am
Just pay an additional handling fee!
maradnu
January 18, 2020, 1:02 am
All it takes is drugs

[Fudi]

Hey ... I found an important find, I think:

Here is the quote:

"Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts. "
— Unattributed


And here are some of the comments:

munchlet
June 14, 2019, 11:09 pm
14 seconds here.
munchlet
June 14, 2019, 11:10 pm
Can I submit two comments now?
LLapp
November 4, 2019, 1:21 am
WHOA! How'd you do that?
abra
February 25, 2020, 2:08 am
I thought I could do that, but I've never proved it.
abra
February 25, 2020, 2:08 am
Did I?

So ... yes, indeed, munchlet and abra - you've found the key to this piece of crypto magic. I once came to a puzzle which had directions for doing this and I tried it and possibly left two in a row, myself ... but couldn't get back after the 2nd time to see if I had. Munchlet or abra ... do you know what you did to accomplish this cool feat?

[mistyswiss]

Will this work for you, interactiveleaf?

"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."— Henry David Thoreau

abra
September 21, 2013, 10:45 am
Hey! One of those witches was my ancestor. You didn't have to be afraid of her.

LLapp
March 23, 2015, 11:56 am
The fact that the witches are all hung is the dark I am afraid of.

interactiveleaf
August 8, 2015, 7:21 pm
Can LLapp's comment be added to this site? It deserves it.

[oddcouple]

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
— Ben Sweetland


wvwoman
June 8, 2013, 11:59 pm
i was frightening my path.
puzzleme
July 24, 2013, 7:03 am
Some paths can be very frightening.
Roxanne
August 24, 2013, 7:25 pm
I lit another's math. Which makes sense, since many research mathematicians work in pairs.
universalmom
April 23, 2014, 1:24 am
Roxanne that's awesome! We should all light each other's math
maradnu
March 11, 2015, 7:58 am
I should have burned some of my calculus homework
abra
March 17, 2015, 5:20 pm
Maybe that's the problem with my math, no one offered to light it.
LLapp
January 3, 2017, 1:34 pm
What a psychedelic photo of him -- he is a head floating amid fireworks.
writeon
June 16, 2017, 4:43 pm
Yeah, but it's better if you stay on your own path or else others expect you and everyone else to keep holding up their torch on their path. (I'm cynical because I currently have an adult child at home.)
LLapp
September 24, 2017, 5:13 pm
"Adult child" -- isn't it interesting that we have no good word for this? Try telling your adult child that he/she is an oxymoron.
mmfs83
October 13, 2018, 3:24 am
I had frightening and that path was my error.

[oddcouple]

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. "
— Aristotle


JCarlosCuevas
July 29, 2009, 7:23 pm
Agreed!
puffybob
July 27, 2010, 4:42 am
I wonder how old he was when he said that.
locodad
March 17, 2013, 3:34 pm
Iam in trouble. Ithink myson uttered a maxim but I didn't understand.Is that aknew slang or something?
dovid1946
February 19, 2015, 2:22 pm
it is unbecoming for young cattle farmers to udder maxims
kb83
July 17, 2015, 9:18 am
Since maxims are supposed to be pithy, why aren't they called "minims?"
darkyr
May 3, 2017, 8:49 am
Oh, I think you just uttered a minim right then.
pj48
July 10, 2017, 4:04 pm
Young men becoming maximen?
LLapp
June 18, 2019, 8:31 pm
This is a great maxim in itself.
montyb
March 15, 2020, 9:48 am
Well I'm old, so maxim, maxim, maxim!