Classic Comments on the Quote

[ddph]

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself."
— Haitian Proverb

bansaisequoia on 2009-09-21 20:17:58

http://oneordinaryday.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/horton.jpg

montyb on 2012-03-23 16:20:34
Wouldn't that just make you the butt of all yolks?

opallady on 2012-07-12 18:17:33
LOL!

chopstix on 2013-04-05 19:37:28
haha!

universalmom on 2013-04-10 02:10:10
Good one montyb!

tgreen517 on 2015-01-12 21:49:32
Or if you want them scrambled.

[ddph]

"The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless."
— Paul Johnson

montyb on 2016-06-04 03:03:54
Well, that was meaningful.

746tiger on 2016-07-25 12:58:24
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have a hand for montyb. How bout them jokes. Great set, great set. He'll be here all week. Please remember to tip your wait staff and have a good night.

[LLapp]

Wordfairy gave me a much-needed laugh.

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." — Dutch Proverb

maradnu on 2009-04-11 19:27:54
Rather have both.

Kgun5 on 2013-02-08 14:59:42
I don't know...Nerds already have quite a few social anxieties to navigate. I'm not sure adding a barrel-sized head to the equation is the best idea.

JD_1947 on 2014-11-14 07:07:19
That's 2150.42 cubic inches of brains . .!! . . . That's a lot of brains . . . by the way a bushel is a dry unit of measure so I guess he's talking about dead, dried out, brains . . .

wordfairy on 2015-04-16 22:03:25
Apparently, the Dutch have some kind of crazy black market. :P

darkyr on 2016-09-07 10:40:42
With a head that large you would need more than a handful of patience in just getting about in your daily life.

[aerie]

"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. "
— Baruch Spinoza

darkyr on 2016-06-14 09:16:33
Must... comment... cannot... hold .... back.

[ddph]

"When it comes to skiing, there's a difference between what you think it's going to be like, what it's really like, and what you tell your friends it was like."
— Unattributed

maradnu on 2012-06-04 01:31:06
Same goes for sex

montyb on 2013-03-29 11:46:01
I'm having trouble visualizing the use of ski poles in sex.

puzzleme on 2013-06-24 03:27:18
You have no imagination, monty.

abra on 2015-11-02 06:20:28
OMgosh!

[LLapp]

Wait, don't read yet, first try some of this Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough Ice Cream

"Engineers operate at the interface between science and society." Dean Gordon Brown

nevadasmith68 on 2013-10-10 13:47:39
Brown's brother started the Buster Brown shoe line.

JD_1947 on 2014-12-02 09:15:50
. . and vice versa with scientists and engineering . . . I liked the old Buster Brown shoe commercials . you don't see shoe commercials much anymore . . .

abra on 2015-02-22 11:23:06
The last good one may have been "Hushpuppies are dumb"

dovid1946 on 2015-03-07 04:34:47
are you people really buying into nevada's absurdities? or just playing along. I researched Mr. Dean Gordon Brown and he didn't even have a brother, four sisters, but no brother.

SippyGurl on 2015-10-13 02:05:39
mmm... hush puppies

universalmom on 2016-04-11 13:11:04
Hahaha...this reads like a stoner conversation in a freshman dorm

maradnu on 2016-09-10 14:35:48
Oh wow, man, like freaking far out, dude.

[ddph]

"Whatever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoelaces. "

maradnu on 2010-05-29 14:13:28
But he would do it regally.

universalmom on 2012-10-06 16:13:27
That's not all he would gnaw at

saipanwriter on 2013-03-09 03:00:05
I didn't know dogs had shoelaces.

abra on 2013-05-01 21:27:45
Only when they're kings. They get little sneakers when they get their crowns.

cuji70 on 2013-10-03 06:08:14
Or really nice hush puppies

slow1 on 2014-03-15 07:55:52
...such a witty group. Thanks for the smiles.

bwbaer on 2016-08-25 11:15:29
Hmm, I actually doubt that.

[LLapp]

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory." — Jane Austen

montyb on 2012-11-04 15:08:17
Have I solved this before?

chopstix on 2013-01-06 19:37:29
haha! montyb

sporty1 on 2013-08-11 20:38:45
I forgot she said that

joma1944 on 2013-10-27 06:29:03
what were we talking about?

JD_1947 on 2014-11-21 05:53:22
I'm lost . . I think I just had a senior moment. . .

LLapp on 2015-02-13 19:39:30
Jane Austen . . . . rings a bell . . . I think she was in my English class.

fishbum on 2015-02-23 10:33:15
Does the name quasimodo ring a bell?

kb83 on 2015-04-09 05:07:56
And the second most wonderful is memory.

[damsel22]

"If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men."
— Russell P. Askue

bansaisequoia on 2010-08-12 23:37:04
They could always say, "I was born in a mansion with only one tennis court adjoining the helipad."

[ddph]

Llapp nailed it

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
— Henry David Thoreau

kb83 on 2014-10-25 15:07:05
Was math hard for ya', Hank?

JD_1947 on 2015-01-03 11:02:21
. . . I am so tired and so slow I don't know why I continue to do these puzzles . . . Nap time . . .119 seconds

Hash on 2015-01-14 07:40:27
With more sympathy I could learn a lot during intercourse.

ruxpin66 on 2015-12-26 03:21:37
Disagree with this.

LLapp on 2016-04-07 17:05:29
I've tried multi-tasking, but it just doesn't work to learn differential equations during intercourse.

[ddph]

Another from Llapp

"To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach."
— Havelock Ellis

kb83 on 2014-07-16 18:24:59
Looks like the Moses of sexology.

LLapp on 2014-11-10 11:55:36
Yes, his motto was "Let my people . . . " um, never mind.

kb83 on 2015-03-31 04:00:11
ha-ha! thanks, LLapp!

jnoodles on 2015-05-25 15:19:24
To live and to die require no knowledge.

LLapp on 2016-06-12 17:39:00
^I disagree. Mere survival takes a lot of learned skill.

[LLapp]

Let us give thanks that Quizzical is not the site admin

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody." — Stanislaw J. Lec

bansaisequoia on 2010-03-12 18:02:58
At first I thought this was a misspelling of Stanislaw Lem, but it turns out there's a Stanislaw Lec, too.

bazinga on 2013-09-28 06:54:03
Which reminds me, in the newspapers one used to have to solve the quote and the name of the individual quoted. I used to like that system. I sort of wish this site would not give the author's name away. Takes away some of the challenge.

Quizzical on 2014-01-28 14:37:08
I've thought from time to time that they should throw in a group of random letters, just to make it more difficult.

[universalmom]

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. "— Gilbert Chesterton

maradnu on 2010-04-03 21:26:16
I read Chesterton, and the book told me he was boring and pedantic.

matarisa on 2011-06-08 23:53:20
Chacun a son gout.

LLapp on 2015-07-09 12:38:35
Everyone has his goat.

[ddph]

Points

"Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light."
— C. V. R. Thompson

wnt2ply on 2011-01-06 19:06:55
what do I do with the points?

kb77 on 2011-09-25 19:14:12
it travels faster than brain waves also it seems.

LLapp on 2014-12-16 14:21:07
wnt2ply: Nothing! I consider points an embarrassment because they show how much time I've frittered away at puzzle-solving.

skoogie2 on 2014-12-21 02:35:01
au contraire, llapp, it's time well spent and to be celebrated as brain work time!

Highpoint on 2015-02-24 12:32:12
Are the points redeemable for cash?

abra on 2015-05-17 14:58:12
Haven't you all been cashing in your points?

[LLapp]

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy." — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

montyb on 2013-07-09 21:33:45
Hah! That'll show 'em!