Things that Bansai left for us

[Toeprint]

"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. "
— Seneca

babs
February 22, 2010, 6:33 pm
Why translate using "thou"? I don't recall there being a formal and familiar "you" in Latin--??
bonzaisekuoia
February 26, 2010, 4:15 am
babs, I've said the same thing about Akhnaten. If you think the Latin of ancient Romans is far removed from today's English, how about someone who lived more than a thousand years before that time on a different continent?

[Toeprint]

"I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race."
— Hugh Elliott

bansaisequoia
September 10, 2009, 12:14 am
any more

[Toeprint]

"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?"
— Khalil Gibran

bansaisequoia
June 11, 2010, 3:29 am
Have you tried eBay or Amazon?
hotmail1
October 6, 2011, 12:42 am
Where can I find an honest game?
bansaisequoia
May 25, 2013, 1:16 am
cryptograms.org.

[Toeprint]

"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live."
— Jacqueline Winspear

bansaisequoia
February 4, 2012, 12:03 pm
Grace is a Bond Girl. (link) [ Note: Original link is dead. Try https://web.archive.org/web/20131109...-1985-13-g.jpg instead.]

[Toeprint]

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. "
— Samuel Johnson

bansaisequoia
June 20, 2009, 11:26 pm
Is Samuel Johnson advocating book burning?
Lurker
February 19, 2010, 2:47 pm
Sounds more like he's anti-Kindle and ipad.
bansaisequoia
November 20, 2012, 7:13 pm
What a disquieting thought. They named an e-book reader, "Kindle." I hope it means they wanted to fire up more profound thoughts.

[Toeprint]

"When spiders unite they can tie down a lion."
— Ethiopian Proverb

bansaisequoia
December 18, 2010, 3:52 am
Has this phenomenon ever actually happened in the animal kingdom? Google that one.

[Toeprint]

"As the same fire assumes different shapes when it consumes objects differing in shape, so does the one Self take the shape of every creature in whom he is present."
— Maitrayaniya Upanisha

bansaisequoia
June 4, 2013, 9:26 pm
Upanishad, not Upanisha.

[Toeprint]

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
— J. K. Rowling

bansaisequoia
June 22, 2012, 4:12 pm
That is so muggly.

[Toeprint]

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
— Edwin Markham

bansaisequoia
July 28, 2012, 7:00 pm
Can you pass the soul shaker?

[Toeprint]

"I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient."
— Cyra McFadden

bansaisequoia
August 13, 2009, 8:58 pm
No Cosmopolitans. Just Vodka.

[Toeprint]

"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. "
— John D. Rockefeller

bansaisequoia
October 28, 2010, 3:24 am
This probably sounds really sweet when you control 90% of the world's oil reserves. "Standard Oil gradually gained almost complete control of oil refining and marketing in the United States... Its share of world oil refining topped out above 90% but slowly dropped to about 80% for the rest of the century."

[Toeprint]

"In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 13, 2009, 9:58 pm
When Hurricane Wilma passed through in 2005, a tree was downed a couple of blocks from my house. The root structure was so extensive, it lifted four slabs of sidewalk out of the ground. Fortunately, my house was untouched, though it did knock down most of the fences and the rafters of the pool screen.

[Toeprint]

"Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. "
— Theodore Roosevelt

bansaisequoia
October 13, 2009, 8:24 pm
Sounds better than UFC. It's bread and circuses time in America.

[Toeprint]

"Don't wait to be happy to laugh. You may die and never have laughed."
— Jean de la Bruyere

bansaisequoia
March 31, 2012, 2:35 pm
Got you covered. I sometimes laugh hysterically out of frustration.

[Toeprint]

"Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
January 27, 2010, 7:39 pm
Throw a lucky cryptedian into the sewer, and he will come up with a record time in his mouth.