Things that Bansai left for us

[xenia]

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
— Charles M. Schulz

maradnu
May 23, 2009, 1:16 am
Maybe it is because your life has no direction, etc that you are happy.

bansaisequoia
September 4, 2009, 11:55 pm
Because you were filthy rich and didn't have a care in the world. (link)

bansaisequoia
March 9, 2010, 12:01 pm
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."--Henry Miller

[Toeprint]

"A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life."
— James Goldsmith

bansaisequoia
August 6, 2013, 12:38 am
This seems especially insipid when said by a billionaire. If Gandhi or Mother Teresa had said it, okay, it might have a little meaning. If the life of pleasure is so meaningless, why didn't the billionaire give away all his money to help the downtrodden? Pleasure is unpleasing?

[Toeprint]

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
— Dorothy C. Fisher

bansaisequoia
August 16, 2009, 4:44 pm
Lean on me when you're not strong, and I'll be friend. I'll help you carry on.

[Toeprint]

"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. "
— Somerset Maugham

snoozy
July 16, 2009, 4:07 pm
Half your luck.
bansaisequoia
January 18, 2010, 9:19 pm
Wish I had that kinda scratch.

[Toeprint]

"I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me."
— Leontyne Price

PianoManGidley
January 21, 2011, 2:13 pm
Maybe it's just because there's no context and I have no idea who this person is or was...but this just sounds like a completely arrogant statement.
bansaisequoia
April 2, 2011, 11:57 pm
Leontyne Price is a noted soprano.

[Toeprint]

"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."
— Jack Handey

Lurker
July 6, 2010, 8:50 pm
I forget, what's the Sears Tower called now? It has a new name.
bansaisequoia
July 17, 2010, 4:58 pm
Willis Tower

[Toeprint]

"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred."
— W. N. Taylor

bansaisequoia
May 9, 2012, 7:02 pm
Apparently, the term "nooner" is unfamiliar to W.N. Taylor.

[Toeprint]

"Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us. "
— Earl Nightingale

bansaisequoia
July 19, 2009, 8:52 pm
Why am I unmarried with no children?

[Toeprint]

"Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game."
— Alan Moore

bansaisequoia
April 19, 2010, 7:18 pm
This comes from his graphic novel, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."

[Toeprint]

"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. "
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

bansaisequoia
October 14, 2009, 7:44 pm
" Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."--Hippocrates "Art is long, life short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult."

[Toeprint]

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

bansaisequoia
May 21, 2010, 8:53 pm
'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'

[Toeprint]

"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
— Kin Hubbard

fishbum
March 8, 2011, 7:08 pm
Boy, that's me.
bansaisequoia
March 13, 2011, 4:04 am
Boy, that's men.

[Toeprint]

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
— Burt Bacharach

bansaisequoia
June 26, 2010, 3:25 am
Fortunately, Hal David was his lyricist.

[Toeprint]

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef."
— Martin H. Fischer

bansaisequoia
September 11, 2012, 3:33 pm
"Save the livers!"--Dan Aykroyd

[Toeprint]

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
— Matt Groening

bansaisequoia
August 1, 2012, 7:41 pm
Ice weasels I can deal with. What about the ice honey badgers?