Classic Comments on the Quote

[wvwoman]

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "
— Friedrich Nietzsche


maradnu on 2009-06-06 21:14:25
No.

hopetheturtle on 2011-09-30 10:03:54
Wisdom is not an inspiration but a virtue that one is either born with or eventually learns over time. Of course some people never become owls.

kb77 on 2011-10-20 15:54:03
substitute 'wisdom' with 'greed'. now THAT makes some sense!!

wvwoman on 2012-07-16 20:41:07
how does the raven eating make him greedy?

bansaisequoia on 2012-07-31 04:09:01
"Wisdom is the domain of the wis."--Dale Bozzio

WRQ9 on 2013-11-17 10:44:38
Or, da wiz. This might show insight if the "raven" would in most circumstances never turn to carrion again. "Nevermore".

LLapp on 2015-05-25 09:49:37
This quote sounds like a close-up view of Nietzsche's mind going mad -- suspecting even his own wisdom of being some horrid nightmare.

Mobo on 2015-10-12 02:41:01
In other words, we wise up after we nearly destroy ourselves. Is that why the league of nations and the UN were created? And look how they both succeeded, not!

JJ20paws on 2016-04-10 12:23:48
Uplifting, as usual

Barnabas on 2016-09-16 12:01:37
Doth quote the raven... "Carrion my wayward son." I think he said that in Kansas somewhere.

universalmom on 2016-10-02 14:16:20
Hahaha, second time you've cracked me up tonight Barnabas!

darkyr on 2017-02-22 06:04:39
Yes, of course, it must be, because it all makes sense now.

Persephone59 on 2017-04-15 13:23:50
This quote is a new low. But the comments are funny, especially Barnabas'.

Persephone59 on 2017-05-27 07:40:54
Well that was a pretty dark quote, even for Nietzsche.

barnabas--i, too, appreciate your kansas comment--it is priceless!

[ddph]

Edited to remove an obscenity.

" He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. "
— Thomas B. Macaulay

kjmcaj on 2013-06-10 18:35:37
221 seconds.

mikehallbackhoe on 2014-12-25 18:37:37
I hate gardening quotes

montyb on 2015-03-28 12:12:23
Boy, I really stepped on the rake with this one.

nelnose on 2016-05-31 17:59:07
I couldn't rake to get this one finished.

highbrow on 2016-06-10 03:09:06
Rake: a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits. Huh.

highbrow on 2016-08-23 06:29:36
Rake. I had to try each remaining letter one at a time to figure out the K.

[ddph]

"If music is the pathway to the heart, as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."
— Henry Bromell

nevadasmith68 on 2013-08-10 20:39:10
Voltaire invented the car battery. Untill then a car ran by a hampster running in a wheel that turned the axle.

LLapp on 2014-12-10 14:16:40
Thanks for the research, nevada, but I'm pretty sure Voltaire invented the automatic transmission.

marnita on 2016-06-03 10:53:27
And the hamsters are still running the Kia Soul.

wolf on 2016-06-26 11:11:27
No. Voltaire invented the spray pump used for the windshield washer.

abra on 2016-09-18 14:52:40
I thought he had something to do with the Chevy Volt.

oddcouple on 2016-09-23 00:00:52
With a name like Voltaire, it has to be an air conditioner.

[LLapp]

"There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life." — William Lyon Phelps

chopstix on 2013-01-22 00:08:04
...often when they are having their portraits taken.

[aerie]

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. "
— Helen Rowland


fishbum on 2012-03-24 18:45:56
Where can I get a jug of common-sense?

universalmom on 2015-06-30 13:25:48
Fizzy stuff

darkyr on 2017-01-17 02:48:53
It's always on back-order at my grocery store.

skeeter on 2017-03-17 02:56:24
You can get it at the Five-and-Ten Sense store.

[ddph]

"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. "
— Samuel Johnson

marnita on 2014-08-12 06:17:58
Suicide bombers?

universalmom on 2016-11-05 00:22:13
so a prosecutor and an undertaker go into a bar...

obsessedreader8 on 2017-01-06 02:30:27
50 seconds.

kb83 on 2017-04-25 02:11:11
Funny, universalmom. The prosecutor says, "you prosecuting any burials? The undertaker says, "yeah, you undertaking any criminal cases? "

[aerie]

"It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass."
— E. S. Dallas


bansaisequoia on 2012-07-20 15:49:03
I would rather eat Twizzlers and remember that I am asstounding!

gryhnd51 on 2013-05-12 03:24:17
I would rather eat popcorn and remember that I am asstonishing!

ericthirdrow on 2014-09-23 08:37:25
I would rather eat steak and remember that I have asscended the food chain.

abra on 2015-01-07 13:40:05
I would rather eat chocolate and remember that I'm occasionally quite awesome.

puffybob on 2015-03-19 05:44:40
I think this quote is actually from Eeyore.

susanith on 2016-09-22 01:52:09
Ah, yes. Humility.

[Annamariah]

"Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along."
— Mignon McLaughlin

cindidido on 2014-10-11 18:06:42
And they're on their way to a pity party.

[ddph]

Oh, Monty!

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
— Don Herold

gryhnd51 on 2014-04-11 18:38:37
In my own experience, the brighter you are the more your supervisors/bosses will EXPECT you to learn. This expectation is a wonderful thing for both your work life and your personal life, and should be appreciated.

obsessedreader8 on 2014-05-31 15:59:54
Love the photo of Herold!

mikehallbackhoe on 2014-07-21 17:42:35
I guess I still have a lot to learn

montyb on 2015-05-21 07:34:59
I was so bright my parents called me "sun".

darkyr on 2016-10-07 04:37:41
You probably felt that the world revolved around you.

[ddph]

"He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. "
— Thomas B. Macaulay

kjmcaj on 2013-06-10 18:35:37
221 seconds.

mikehallbackhoe on 2014-12-25 18:37:37
I hate gardening quotes

montyb on 2015-03-28 12:12:23
Boy, I really stepped on the rake with this one.

nelnose on 2016-05-31 17:59:07
I couldn't rake to get this one finished.

highbrow on 2016-06-10 03:09:06
Rake: a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits. Huh.

highbrow on 2016-08-23 06:29:36
Rake. I had to try each remaining letter one at a time to figure out the K.

(Obscenity deleted)

LLapp on 2017-04-05 08:29:27
Hey, this is a PG site.

[aerie]

"Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it."
— Joe Clark

LLapp on 2016-03-25 17:31:28
Or just keep de foot out of your mouth to begin with.

[ddph]

"If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. "
— William Penn

sonofcarc on 2009-02-11 18:42:10
I believe "wouldn't" should be "wouldst," without an apostrophe.

chriscrojam on 2011-02-17 22:51:48
Oh gee, thank you sonofcarc for making it three times harder!

Lurker on 2012-06-25 00:33:04
That's it, sonofcarc, no more "helpful" comments from you! At least I got "thy" right, or I'd still be trying to solve it.

abra on 2013-08-05 14:28:15
You mean this used to be Wouldn't, and they FIXED it? Love that.

chopstix on 2014-03-12 19:52:30
who the heck is carc - and why did they have a child? ...just kiddin' folks!

GtrZan on 2014-05-22 09:17:56
this was not fun... just sayin'

abra on 2015-04-21 15:34:02
I didn't remember this one, but I got THY and THOU right, on the first try. That got me a Very Fast.

figmo on 2015-07-31 11:37:29
When I saw William Penn, I expected "thy," "thee," and "thou."

SippyGurl on 2015-11-05 19:37:45
there aren't any apostrophes anymore. at least, not what shows after solving... i don't remember what the solving part had.

lainecap on 2017-04-11 14:52:50
He still looks like Larry, the Quaker Oats guy.

[LLapp]

"A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world." — Joseph Addison

montyb on 2016-04-26 22:03:42
Escaping the censures should be easy; you'd only have to hide once every ten years.

[LLapp]

"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided." — John Locke

elrelster on 2009-11-27 15:18:24
I studied John Locke in my history class!

Allen on 2014-05-06 02:22:34
I studied Shakespeare in my literature class!

LLapp on 2015-02-24 08:20:20
I studied Mad Magazine in my math class!

tgreen517 on 2015-03-19 04:52:55
Alfred E Newman was popular in all my classes!

[montyb]

Three cheers for one of the best threads ever!!!

"In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. "
— Plutarch

skoogie2 on 2014-01-24 01:56:41
to everything, turn, turn, turn

montyb on 2014-02-23 14:18:45
...there is a season, turn, turn, turn...

wordfairy on 2014-09-28 20:41:42
♪♫♪ and a time for every purpose under heaven ♪♫

abra on 2015-08-17 10:59:39
A time to be born, and a time to die A time to plant, and a time to reap...

opallady on 2015-09-26 11:33:24
A time to kill, a time to heal. A time to laugh, a time to weep.

wvwoman on 2015-10-31 13:53:27
a time to build up, a time to break down a time to dance, a time to mourn...

LizardLeap on 2016-01-23 09:52:37
a time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together...

emtonsti on 2016-08-04 10:34:31
to everything turn, turn, turn

wvwoman on 2016-10-17 10:30:16
a time of love, a time of hate a time of war, a time of peace a time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing...


Way to keep the faith, Friends!