Things that Bansai left for us

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"No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
May 13, 2013, 5:47 pm
What about Charles Lindbergh?

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"People of Wealth and the so-called upper class suffer the most from boredom. "
— Arthur Schopenhauer

kat
November 1, 2009, 4:51 pm
I feel so sorry for them.
kat
February 21, 2010, 11:35 pm
It must be terrible.
kat
March 12, 2010, 4:16 pm
Oh how they suffer.
bansaisequoia
April 17, 2010, 6:51 pm
I'm crying my eyes out, kittikat.
pootie49
May 29, 2011, 4:57 pm
oh i feel their pain...they can wipe their tears with their hundred dollar bills. no wait, they use those to light their hundred dollar cigars, silly me.

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"My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."
— Henny Youngman

maradnu
April 14, 2009, 1:09 am
L'Chaim.
kat
April 18, 2009, 2:05 am
Cheers!
smoochie222
May 2, 2009, 12:38 am
salud
kat
November 15, 2009, 10:16 pm
Slainte!
bansaisequoia
January 15, 2010, 7:41 pm
Na zdrowie.
opallady
October 9, 2010, 9:26 pm
Prosit!
Quizzical
May 9, 2013, 5:15 pm
skál
JenDiaz72
June 25, 2015, 11:54 am
Slainte! Here's tae us, wha's like us? Damned few an' they're a' deid (Scottish toast)
Eureka
February 11, 2020, 12:00 pm
GAN BEI!
hrossa
August 28, 2020, 1:43 pm
Noroc!

[Toeprint]

"Opportunity always looks better going than coming. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
April 7, 2012, 8:33 pm
But if you put your opportunity beer goggles on, it looks better coming than going.

[Toeprint]

"One great cause of failure is lack of concentration."
— Bruce Lee

bansaisequoia
June 7, 2010, 9:26 pm
I'm sorry... ...you were saying?

[Toeprint]

"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign."
— Dwight Eisenhower

bansaisequoia
August 20, 2009, 12:36 am
Ironic that this was said by the man who had Nixon serve under him as vice-president.

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"I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet."
— Carry Nation

bansaisequoia
June 5, 2009, 3:58 pm
Nooooo! She's destroying kat's livelihood!

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"By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me."
— Andrew Schneider

bansaisequoia
June 11, 2009, 11:47 pm
Mid-November is when I breathe a sigh of relief that hurricane season is finally over.

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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. "
— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

bansaisequoia
December 6, 2009, 10:58 pm
Same here, duder.
LLapp
June 5, 2021, 4:35 am
Bansaisequoia, aka Joseph Kartheiser of Boca Raton, left us at age 57 on September 24, 2019. His comment at the top of this thread gave me a big lump in my throat. His sense of humor really was a godsend for him. (link)

[Toeprint]

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "
— Friedrich Nietzsche

bansaisequoia
July 31, 2012, 4:09 am
"Wisdom is the domain of the wis."--Dale Bozzio

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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. "
— George Eliot

bansaisequoia
September 25, 2009, 12:19 am
Good thing she never met Isaac Asimov.

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"When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. "
— Arthur Rimbaud

bansaisequoia
September 10, 2009, 8:19 pm
"When I was seventeen It was a very good year."--Ervin Drake (just don't listen to the William Shatner version)

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"You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. "
— Alexander Pope

bansaisequoia
August 5, 2010, 6:20 pm
What if he means there's no corpse in the house?

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"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. "
— Thomas Fuller

JD_1947
November 23, 2014, 9:49 am
. . good quote! . . I like it! . . . 59 seconds . . how does bansai do it . . does he have a crypto-cracker software program . . . ?
Lurker
February 13, 2015, 12:46 pm
He has the best one ever designed... his brain.
maradnu
June 22, 2016, 5:45 am
He is very smart, has a good memory for quotes, has good solving skills, a fast internet connection, and is a touch typist. Killer combination.
Shirli
November 17, 2017, 12:00 pm
I still think he is a bot
LLapp
June 7, 2019, 1:59 am
If he were a bot, he would solve in 2 seconds, and he would have a 100% success rate.

[Toeprint]

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. "
— H.L. Mencken

bansaisequoia
November 22, 2009, 6:43 pm
I bet he thinks he's saving humanity with his aphorisms.