Classic Comments on the Quote

[LaynaLyn]

"How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables? "
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

larry149
April 21, 2016, 3:03 am
You mean the earth isn't flat?
killdozer
August 12, 2016, 5:28 pm
And the earth was not created in six days, and people were not made out of mud in a magic garden.
darkyr
August 21, 2018, 7:15 am
And Justin Bieber isn't the next Michael Jackson.
maradnu
December 12, 2019, 9:59 pm
But is he the next Celine Dion?

badbob
November 2, 2021, 10:08 am
and fish came out of the sea without lungs or legs or speech and created the designated hitter rule

[Eureka]

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." — R. Buckminster Fuller

montyb
January 25, 2013, 11:16 pm
In fact, the buckminster fullerene ("bucky ball") is the most sperical naturally occuring molecule known.

chopstix
July 31, 2013, 7:15 pm
well darn if ya don't learn something new every day from this site! thanks montyb!

montyb
November 2, 2013, 1:01 pm
I hope you learned that I meant "spherical", chopstix.

chopstix
May 29, 2014, 6:20 am
hah, I must have! I guess it could be taken as a typo for spiritual...

slow1
April 7, 2016, 8:09 am
What a coincidence - that chopstix and montyb would both get this quote twice!..fascinating.

montyb
June 22, 2020, 4:07 pm
It certainly is!

darkyr
December 11, 2020, 3:32 pm
Perhaps montyb and chopstix are the same person and this was all just an elaborate ruse to distract us from something astonishingly more sinister and sperical.

montyb
February 4, 2021, 10:58 pm
Well, it's true that Chopstix and I have never been seen at the same time.

abra
May 31, 2022, 1:36 am
Good work, darkyr. The mysteries of the Crypto Universe are revealing themselves thanks to solvers like you.

montyb
October 17, 2022, 11:01 pm
During my youth and shortly after acquiring Silly Putty and Flubber, my mother let me know that allowing each to flow deep into the pile of the living room carpet was definitely a wrong reason.

Elephino
April 5, 2024, 12:07 pm
I have to confess that in order to distance myself from montyb (due to circumstances I cannot disclose here), I changed my name a few years ago. chopstix is my dead name. But in order to confirm my ongoing camaraderie with monty I am adding a wiki link to elaborate on his original comment: (link). and an excerpt: "...The discoverers of the allotrope named the newfound molecule after R. Buckminster Fuller, who designed many geodesic dome structures that look similar to C60 and who had died in 1983, the year before discovery...."

[LaynaLyn]

"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."
— E.M. Cioran

agatha
January 1, 2011, 3:30 pm
Well, I hath lusted after the young asparagus stalk. Doth that count?
universalmom
July 18, 2012, 5:40 am
Okay, what on earth does envying a vegetable mean??
Queethebean
August 8, 2012, 11:08 pm
I guess one's life could be so chaotic that one might wish one were a zucchini.
Allen
December 12, 2013, 2:01 am
I envy vegetables--they're so...grounded!

haverwench
July 5, 2015, 3:41 am
I suspect we're about to beet this pun to death.

maradnu
January 23, 2018, 3:24 pm
All we are saying is give peas a chance

montyb
April 28, 2019, 4:20 pm
I think more people than we realize are envious of vegetables. Go to any beach and see all those poor saps futilely trying to photosynthesize.

[LaynaLyn]

"There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ."
— Henry Grube

LLapp
March 16, 2019, 2:47 am
Thanks Viktoria, what you wrote is exactly the distinction that I see between embracing the teachings of Jesus, which I do, and believing he was a savior, which I don't. I believe the human condition, not sin, is at the base of human suffering, and that salvation, if there is such a thing, lies in the work we all do, in our own private ways, to be at peace with being human.

Persephone59
October 2, 2021, 3:01 am
Is being a Grace dispenser anything like being a Pez dispenser? Sorry, not in a serious mood just now. Well, actually I'm not sorry.
Fudi
October 15, 2022, 5:16 pm
Paul was the cute one. Everyone knows that.

[LaynaLyn]

"To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so. " Proverb

LLapp
October 22, 2015, 5:17 pm
This is the creed of the climate change deniers.

Annamariah
October 12, 2016, 12:10 am
Not necessarily. Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable, wasn't it?
ericthirdrow
February 9, 2018, 5:54 am
The Titanic fits perfectly. They believed that the ship sinking was impossible, oops, they made it so.

marnita
July 25, 2018, 6:51 am
No, eric, they unfortunately did NOT make it impossible to sink the Titanic.
tclcac
November 6, 2018, 11:50 am
So all of the things I was not able to do when I was younger, was my fault because I thought they were impossible (such as growing a second set of eye in the back of my head when my children were small.
badbob
May 2, 2019, 3:56 am
how do you think the unthinkable? with an ithberg

[LLapp]

How to knock some sense into a bickering-about-God thread...


"When we lose God, it is not God who is lost." — Unattributed

montyb
August 14, 2012, 1:44 pm
I would wager the vast majority of atheists, agnostics, animistic or Vedic religions know what they are doing, where they are going, and are not "lost" at all.

Highpoint
February 17, 2015, 3:33 pm
May Zeus forgive you.

Jalapenoman
July 29, 2015, 1:57 am
I kept trying this with "when we lose YOU." Also.... athiests are more lost than anyone on the planet. At least Sun worshipers recognize that there is a supreme being.

marnita
August 3, 2016, 11:48 am
Here we go again. The religious are always right - just ask them.

mumu
November 15, 2016, 3:46 am
God is basically humanoid, with certain crab-like features.

jd314
December 10, 2017, 1:48 pm
Here we go again. Just who is being intolerant? Interesting that the self-righteous project that quality on those with whom they disagree, and then hate them for it.

marnita
January 6, 2018, 9:08 am
jd314 - I was referring to Jalapenoman's comment, not to the quote.

Descifrador
February 23, 2018, 6:43 am
jd314: Sure! If you overlook the fact, as you seem to be doing, that Jalapenoman made a judgmental comment comment. No one else had done it. There's nothing "intolerant" about responding to that.

Roxanne
October 1, 2018, 1:27 am
If I hear any more arguing about religion from you, I am going to stop this website right here right now and you can just walk home, all of you.

Persephone59
May 5, 2019, 8:45 pm
mumu, you must mean the quickly running sideways while waving the claws in the air? Yes, I see that.

LLapp
June 2, 2019, 12:41 am
No fair, Roxanne should have just made the arguing people walk home!! Now we're ALL stuck here, and I wasn't even arguing. Does anyone have a map?

GramBow
October 29, 2019, 10:49 am
Come near to God and He will come near to you. James 4:8 He has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5

Eureka
June 26, 2020, 12:16 am
I knew I shouldn't have worn heels today.

[Eureka]

Roxanne is brilliant and hilarious. I haven't seen her on here in ages. I hope she still plays.

[LLapp]

One of Roxanne's finest posts of historical fiction...

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." — Leo Rosten

universalmom
April 28, 2014, 2:32 pm
When it's not mean-spirited

abra
July 20, 2015, 1:53 pm
Yes, a lot of humor, nowdays, is not affectionate.

montyb
May 11, 2016, 10:14 am
Nevertheless, I still laugh at a good pie fight.

Persephone59
June 25, 2017, 6:11 pm
Most humor is not mean spirited. It lightens the mood and puts people at their ease. Oh, yeah, it's fun, too.

Roxanne
April 13, 2018, 1:23 am
Most people don't realize the degree to which Hoosiers today still engage in pie-fighting, a phenomenon that to some in southern Indiana is a serious matter involving territorial control and family - or clan - honor. The custom arose just after the Civil War, when there were political differences still to be resolved among residents near "The River" (as the Ohio is called in Indiana) . The practice likely would have died out completely had not Willis Johnson invented an improved mechanical egg beater in Cincinnati in 1884. The custom of topping pies with whipped cream then spread rapidly down the Ohio and took hold in Evansville in the autumn of 1905 (the Wikipedia article for 1906 includes many entries that explicate the chronology of the First Evansville Pie War). From there it moved north to cover an area coterminous with that of the Hoosier apex of the South Midland US dialect. Improvements in pressurization technology exacerbated the use of whipped cream on pies, and the practice of pie-fighting spread rapidly north as each farming community engaged in a sort of rural arms race with its neighbor. Most notoriously, the 20-year Hobbieville-Popcorn vendetta decimated the population of the latter village, which plummeted from a high of 6,672 residents in 1932 to 314 today. Pie-fighting became illegal in 1958 with the Poindexter-Hardin Act, yet it is still practiced in clandestine 'pie pans,' secret pie-fighting clubs often associated with gambling, pig-racing, and beer pong.

[Eureka]

"The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory." — Unattributed

montyb
May 4, 2013, 12:30 am
I will write a stinging, yet profound, rejoinder as soon as I think of it again.

montyb
July 24, 2013, 6:33 pm
...still working on it...

montyb
August 31, 2016, 9:40 pm
Oh yeah! Stinging rejoinder. Now where did I leave it?

darkyr
December 22, 2016, 3:34 am
Would you like me to leave your stinging rejoinder? I think I remember how it goes.

montyb
September 11, 2017, 12:11 am
Please do, darkyr. Thank you very much. Now where did I leave my keys?

marnita
March 24, 2018, 2:30 pm
Monty has obviously been here at least four times. If he had a great memory, he would surely have the record by now. I think his conscience must be pretty clear.

montyb
December 9, 2018, 6:05 am
Who is this Monty guy?

LLapp
November 15, 2020, 8:53 pm
Hey, somebody left their car keys here.

rasbury
February 26, 2022, 7:35 pm
Just press the "clear" button and start again.

hrossa
September 24, 2022, 10:15 am
Yay! Rasbury found montyb's rejoinder. Thanks, r.

[LLapp]

"A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card." — Edgar A. Shoaff

blueladyblue
December 9, 2021, 6:27 pm
I'd prefer to have his password.

[kb83]

montyb's question is a good question. The syntax seems to imply it is the person's adversity or prosperity, but I agree with rasbury that one would assume it was the friend's adversity or prosperity that was intended. If so, then a clearer statement would be "...than to a friend in prosperity".

[LLapp]

"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity." — Chilon of Sparta

montyb
January 13, 2020, 5:32 pm
Wait. Would this be my adversity or my friend’s adversity? And exactly whose prosperity is involved? It makes a difference.

rasbury
July 31, 2020, 7:05 pm
I assume he means your friend's adversity or prosperity. If not, it's not such a nice quote. I want to figure it out quickly in case he sends me a friend request.

[montyb]

"I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it."
— Queen Juliana

cheryljean777
June 2, 2011, 5:57 pm
I know the feeling.

madrone
October 15, 2011, 12:56 am
Here, here!

pootie49
June 25, 2012, 3:24 pm
She's talking about math isnt she?

montyb
July 20, 2012, 10:49 pm
I vote for punctuated equilibrium.

abra
May 24, 2013, 8:59 pm
Oh yes, I feel this way about a lot of things.

skoogie2
July 27, 2013, 7:47 pm
I think it's chemistry!

locodad
September 20, 2013, 1:46 pm
I think is women , no offense since they are lovely

gryhnd51
May 8, 2014, 8:36 pm
locodad...that's very sweet, and very funny!

abra
January 22, 2017, 6:09 pm
I think its math, and probably commas.

maradnu
June 21, 2018, 5:20 am
I don't understand people who can't understand algebra

mellav1
July 8, 2021, 9:52 am
Apparently said about an "electronic data processing machine" aka computer

badbob
January 28, 2022, 4:03 am
maybe she's talking about cricket

maradnu
January 4, 2023, 11:11 pm
I had a punctuated equilibrium but lucky the doctors were able to fix it.

Kaden Vanciel
August 5, 2023, 4:01 am
Who's Queen Juliana?

hrossa
March 7, 2024, 1:05 am
Punctuated equilibrium is when LLapp is satisfied with the quote's placement of commas and semicolons.

[Synonymous]

Great come back by Eureka. I laughed out loud and it's 3 o'clock in the morning. Still chuckling.

[LLapp]

"When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone." — Robert Brault

iltquilt
July 16, 2012, 12:06 am
Oh, puleeze!

bazinga
November 12, 2012, 12:11 am
This guy is so dull I am beginning to suspect he owns this site and throws in his own quotes.

CryptoB
February 25, 2013, 2:05 am
Ick! I think I'd prefer to see Jack Handey quotes his.

barbaralv8
August 18, 2014, 8:12 am
I like this quote. I think Brault understands that living life only for yourself can lead to emptiness, loneliness and bitterness. Having someone else to be with and live for is wonderful.

Quizzical
December 19, 2014, 2:04 am
He comes up with an occasional good one, but a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while, as they used to say.

Unattributed
December 9, 2015, 5:08 am
...did I miss a meeting where we all agreed to hate this guy? 'Cuz I think it's a nice quote.

Eureka
November 15, 2018, 7:05 am
Unattributed, not only did we have a meeting where we all agreed to hate Brault, but your name also came up....