Things that Bansai left for us

[Toeprint]

"Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour."
— Edward M. Kennedy

bansaisequoia
August 28, 2009, 2:12 am
R.I.P.

[Toeprint]

"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. "
— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

bansaisequoia
May 6, 2010, 4:04 am
"Like a true nature's child We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna die"--Dennis Edmonton aka Mars Bonfire (Another great Canadian)

[Toeprint]

"Physics is imagination in a straight jacket."
— John Moffat

bansaisequoia
November 17, 2012, 7:18 pm
Unless he's making some joke I'm not getting, it should be "straitjacket ." I find it hard to believe a noted physicist with a PhD would blow this one.

[Toeprint]

"'Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice."
— Anonymous

[There was an error in the quote which has since been corrected.]
bansaisequoia
June 11, 2009, 10:03 pm
This could use an apostrophe on the contraction.

[Toeprint]

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. "
— Will Rogers

bansaisequoia
November 9, 2009, 4:56 pm
Did I tell you I'm working on a screenplay?

[Toeprint]

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. "
— Socrates

bansaisequoia
May 4, 2010, 4:44 pm
He was great in "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure."

[Toeprint]

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."
— A. P. Gouthey

bansaisequoia
January 30, 2011, 6:11 am
Hey, I fingerpainted some masterpieces in preschool.

[Toeprint]

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

kat
December 27, 2009, 7:42 pm
So THAT explains the crushing bouts of depression... *wink*
bansaisequoia
July 9, 2010, 3:43 pm
So, you have those crushing bouts, too? *nudge*nudge*

[Toeprint]

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. "
— Carl Jung

bansaisequoia
November 5, 2009, 5:04 pm
It's better that we should warp reality.

[Toeprint]

"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. "
— James Thurber

Barnabas
October 25, 2011, 3:04 pm
Did Mr. Thurber run to the same barber as Jay Leno?
bansaisequoia
February 4, 2012, 7:03 pm
No, his barber cuts Donald Trump's hair.
Note: This is James Thurber's profile picture. James_Thurber_6427.jpg

[Toeprint]

"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. "
— Richard Whately

bonszaisequaio
February 22, 2010, 6:25 pm
Am I not man? I am Devo!

[Toeprint]

"A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

bansaisequoia
July 5, 2010, 2:40 pm
Even snails and frog legs? I doubt it.

[Toeprint]

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
— Gilbert Chesterton

bansaisequoia
July 13, 2012, 7:07 pm
I'd draw flesh tone over GK Chesterton's mustache.

[Toeprint]

"Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child."
— Laurens van der Post

bansaisequoia
May 2, 2010, 6:57 pm
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.

[Toeprint]

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
— Jack London

bansaisequoia
July 1, 2012, 6:52 pm
He shouldn't have wasted so much time around the Arctic Circle. The days can be so long there.