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".

[LLapp]

"The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination." — The War Cry

Anachronismatic
October 3, 2021, 5:29 pm
Driving down I-94 in one location, you see "Climax, 1 mile." Definitely false advertising.

[puzzleme]

Previous post reminded me of this: "You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone." - Rod Serling

[puzzleme]

Wordigo wins! (Lightly edited to remove solve times.)

"Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. " — Karl Kraus

elsiegirl
February 25, 2015, 8:20 am
He was clearly a morning person!
RS2
October 18, 2015, 1:47 am
Hear Hear!
marnita
September 15, 2016, 10:48 am
I'm very stupid in the morning before I have my coffee.
MamaB
November 22, 2016, 6:24 am
I'm Grumpy.
blueladyblue
December 23, 2017, 11:51 am
I think stupidity stays up late partying. Talk about your happenin' events...
firstdawn
January 11, 2018, 6:34 am
REPEAT!!! I just did this yesterday!
maradnu
January 28, 2019, 5:07 pm
That's why Trump tweets at 4am
imsoeasy
February 25, 2019, 9:36 am
Maradnu & Trump are together so much, they're like opposite twins.
Synonymous
July 20, 2020, 10:37 pm
imsoeasy that is a beautiful compliment you just paid maradnu. Anybody opposite Trump is not stupid. Nice.
DrCryptell
March 10, 2023, 9:41 am
Stupidity gets up early; genius never sleeps.
montyb
March 17, 2023, 6:02 am
So here I am at 6:00 AM (local time) playing cryptos.
Wordigo
September 22, 2023, 7:52 pm
^Early nerd gets the word. ;-)

[kb83]

There is a town in Northwest Minnesota called Climax. From Wiki: "Climax, founded in 1896, was named after a chewing tobacco company. The town's name has been a source of humor, and the slogan selected for the centennial was "Climax. More than just a feeling." Less well attested is the assertion that some unnamed local newspaper, reporting the death of a resident of a nearby town, ("Fertile, Minnesota"-- sic) ran a report of her passing under the headline Fertile Woman dies in Climax. "

[puzzleme]

An omadhaun is just an Irish boob.

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." — Peter Marshall

wvwoman
May 14, 2014, 4:15 pm
i first tried "small boobs"...i knew it wouldn't be right, but couldn't help making myself smile.
kb83
June 19, 2014, 8:10 am
small boobs inherited are worse than great boobs done. (Or are they?)
LLapp
September 20, 2016, 5:33 pm
No such thing as worse boobs; they are all beautiful.
montyb
April 10, 2017, 10:43 am
Aw, thanks for the kind word, LLapp. You certainly gave this boob a lift -- so to speak.
LLapp
July 16, 2018, 8:14 pm
Haha, monty.
puffybob
November 14, 2020, 12:49 am
He was great on Hollywood Squares
abra
December 5, 2021, 2:10 am
I loved the movie of A Man Called Peter, but I never read the book written by his wife. I did read her book Christie a couple times.
Wordigo
May 10, 2023, 11:53 am
This thread of comments is a booby trap.

[Eureka]

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." — Murphy's Law

Spenser
February 11, 2015, 1:34 am
Murphy's Law? Really?

abra
June 27, 2015, 3:49 pm
It must be a different Murphy.

ruxpin66
July 3, 2015, 6:12 pm
Murphy Brown?

RS2
March 24, 2016, 7:57 am
Should be Wienberg's Second Law from "Mastering Software Quality Assurance: Best Practices, Tools and Technique for Software Developers"

LLapp
December 31, 2018, 7:13 pm
Any quote about programming that can be misattributed, will be.

[pj48]

"Honor is not to be won, it must only not be lost." -Arthur Shopenhauer


montyb
October 18, 2014, 6:10 am
I'm certain I put mine on the night stand last night. Now where is it?
montyb
March 28, 2015, 6:49 am
Now my keys are gone!
Roxanne
February 28, 2016, 2:33 pm
I think I saw the dog carrying it around.
montyb
June 22, 2016, 1:42 pm
Great...my honor is probably buried by now.
Eureka
January 25, 2019, 12:37 pm
LOL montyb. I do hope you find it.
Elephino
September 1, 2020, 1:31 am
I saw an ad on Craigslist today: "1 honor, 3 keys $10 OBO. The honor is in "fair" condition"
montyb
April 15, 2021, 4:45 pm
Mine was never in that good of condition.
hrossa
August 14, 2021, 5:08 pm
LOL montyb, I bet yours was fine. Maybe it's with my glasses.
rasbury
August 22, 2021, 4:14 pm
Mine is a tie.

[LLapp]

"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men." — Henry David Thoreau

jnoodles
August 15, 2013, 1:01 am
Thank you. Thank you very much.

dovid1946
April 14, 2015, 3:37 am
The mythic hero usually lives his early years in obscurity and then his true heritage is revealed.

badbob
October 5, 2018, 10:15 pm
my cape is in the closet. just waiting for the call

pickleball
March 10, 2021, 3:27 pm
badbob- how you making out with no more telephone booth

badbob
August 20, 2022, 5:05 am
now I run into an Apple store and ask to use the men's room

[Eureka]

Bowling humor really strikes a chord with me.

"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." — Baba Ram Dass

onlyinvowels
March 28, 2018, 7:09 am
It kind of makes sense... You only truly understand the things said by the part of a person you can identify with. E.g. I hear (understand) people when they talk about cryptograms, but not when they talk about bowling, because one piece of me is cryptogram fan, but no piece of me is bowling fan.

lertsek
April 28, 2018, 7:51 pm
I thought everybody liked bowling. Perhaps my mind is in the gutter, so I'll spare you my split from reality.

bigdave
April 3, 2019, 6:54 pm
OIV framed the quote nicely, really pinned it down.

[Eureka]

"Good laws have their origins in bad morals." — Ambrosius Macrobius

momn8r
March 28, 2016, 12:21 pm
He sounds like a Harry Potter spell.

badbob
August 9, 2018, 7:44 pm
momn8r, you are correct i waved my wand after saying his name and the cat disappeared

momn8r
March 9, 2019, 7:34 pm
@babbob: oh you crypytowizard, you! Fluffy showed up here and now he wants to go home. Im sending him back right away. POOF!

[kb83]

To me, the name sounds like the new-age Gods who went on a vegetarian diet