Things that Bansai left for us

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"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye."
— Austin O'Malley

reader4
September 3, 2011, 5:28 am
This is from "The Cure of Alcoholism," 1913. O'Malley, U.S. physician and humorist (1858 - 1932), is saying here that if you have a roving or lustful eye you will not be happy.
bansaisequoia
February 13, 2012, 6:37 pm
But my eye never makes a sound. D'oh! now you've changed the entire context! Happiness escapes again.

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"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. "
— Joseph Addison

bansaisequoia
June 16, 2009, 10:19 pm
What about hyenas?

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"It is pleasant at times to play the madman."
— Seneca

bansaisequoia
October 8, 2010, 11:36 pm
What do you mean, "play" the madman?
maradnu
December 19, 2010, 1:46 am
I have found it so.
bansaisequoia
February 25, 2012, 7:18 pm
Play?
dovid1946
December 24, 2014, 1:08 pm
pretend to be the madman? like Hamlet?

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"Bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible. Still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
— Abraham Lincoln

PianoManGidley
April 10, 2009, 7:52 pm
Thorough would disagree with the second sentence.
bansaisequoia
May 15, 2010, 6:51 pm
Thoreau?
Allen
November 22, 2012, 5:31 pm
Thoroughly Thoreau.

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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
— Dr. Arbthnot

bansaisequoia
May 21, 2009, 9:53 pm
The author of this quote would seem to be John Arbuthnot. (link)

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"What a demanding pleasure that demands the use of one's mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness. "
— Ayn Rand

peterdry
February 28, 2009, 7:45 am
Spell it correctly
bansaisequoia
August 28, 2012, 6:28 pm
I-T. So do I win the spelling bee?
Eureka
March 22, 2019, 1:58 pm
Perhaps peterdry meant "judgement".

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"Life is always either a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope."
— Edith Wharton

bansaisequoia
September 25, 2010, 7:27 pm
I would rather crash in a featherbed than crash after falling off of a tightrope.

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"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum."
— Menander

bansaisequoia
May 22, 2010, 8:03 pm
Wikipedia says the phrase, "school of hard knocks," was originated by George Ade in 1912, so it is doubtful that this was said by Menander.

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"One aged man -- one man -- can't keep a house. "
— Robert Frost

bansaisequoia
June 1, 2010, 10:24 pm
I saw Les Paul live at the Iridium in Midtown Manhattan when he was in his nineties. There was not an empty seat in the place. An aged man can fill a house.

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"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
— Blaise Pascal

bansaisequoia
April 25, 2011, 6:22 pm
Actually, I'd rather be victorious without any fighting.

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"There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
October 5, 2011, 5:32 pm
Soft, semi-soft, semi-hard and hard. Cheese, glorious cheese.

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"I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me? "
— Madonna

bansaisequoia
October 30, 2012, 3:53 pm
Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie?

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"On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends. "
— Benjamin Disraeli

Altoid701
March 9, 2009, 1:38 am
Sounds like something Yoda would say.
pootie49
March 21, 2009, 8:44 pm
backwards to speak this man likes
bansaisequoia
May 22, 2009, 3:55 pm
Like good syntax to me it sounded.

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"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
— Robert Fripp

bansaisequoia
November 13, 2010, 3:23 am
I have at least 30 different music CDs on which Robert Fripp appears. I'm skeptical as to the authenticity of this attribution.

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"Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable."
— H.L. Mencken

bonsaisequoia
July 27, 2009, 1:04 am
(link) [Note: dead link.]