Things that Bansai left for us

[Toeprint]

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

bansaisequoia
June 23, 2010, 2:55 am
My five day work week is enough. I don't think I could stand 10 days.

[Toeprint]

"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. "
— Oscar Wilde

Altoid701
October 13, 2012, 1:56 am
bjarni herjolfsson!
bansaisequoia
November 17, 2012, 8:05 pm
Thanks for adding to my knowledge, Altoid!

[Toeprint]

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. "
— Judith Viorst

bansaisequoia
May 22, 2010, 8:04 pm
I have the strength to give the other three pieces to my friends.

[Toeprint]

"If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists."
— Jewish Proverb

bansaisequoia
May 27, 2013, 11:22 pm
If the post office gave away stamps, the world would be full of philatelists. If everyone felt no romantic love, the world would be full of philanderers. If there were no aesthetic discernment, the world would be full of Philistines.

[Toeprint]

"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

momof6
April 14, 2009, 4:30 am
Who doesn't want to bury themselves under the covers and go back to sleep when it's minus a lot outside?
bansaisequoia
June 8, 2009, 8:56 pm
I want to back to sleep and estivate when I know it's already 90 degrees F outside with 90% humidity. Whaddaya know, I stumped spell check with "estivate."

[boiboiboiboiboi]

"Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
September 14, 2009, 8:06 pm
Jerry Garcia's first wife, Carolyn Adams, was also known as "Mountain Girl."

Marry a city girl and you marry a tiny apartment. -Me

[Toeprint]

"Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
September 14, 2009, 8:06 pm
Jerry Garcia's first wife, Carolyn Adams, was also known as "Mountain Girl."

[Toeprint]

"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected."
— Jimmy Cannon

bansaisequoia
April 15, 2010, 3:40 am
This is a definite "coulda woulda" quote. I first tried "grayed" or "brayed." I gotta remember that it could have been a frayed Christmas Tree light of yesteryear that might have caused a fire. Good thing I caught it in time. I'm glad I saved your holiday.
montyb
July 6, 2013, 1:41 am
Frayed...grayed. It's me either way.

[Toeprint]

"Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods. "
— Unattributed

maradnu
July 4, 2009, 6:22 pm
Life is but a dream, sha-boom, sha-boom.
bansaisequoia
July 11, 2010, 3:21 pm
Actually, the lyric by The Crewcuts is, "Life Could Be A Dream."

[Toeprint]

"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1."
— Ernest Rutherford

bansaisequoia
August 15, 2009, 12:18 am
This just didn't seem like something a witty physicist would have said, so I dug a little further and found the quote to be this: "You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 to the 12 to 1 against."

[Toeprint]

"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."
— Aeschylus

silveryaspen
June 11, 2009, 7:26 pm
Ye Olde English .... arghhhhh!
bansaisequoia
December 20, 2009, 12:36 am
As if it was spoken by Ancient Greeks.

[Toeprint]

"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel."
— Faith Sullivan

bansaisequoia
August 31, 2009, 11:47 pm
Truly impressive time, countess.
countessofmontecry
February 16, 2012, 8:55 pm
Back to you, Bansais.

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[Toeprint]

"Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows."
— P.A. Fiorentino

bansaisequoia
March 28, 2010, 7:11 pm
Is this an insult, or a compliment?!?!
pootie49
June 25, 2012, 3:38 pm
depends if you have a hangover or not.

[Toeprint]

"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them."
— Charles Buxton

bansaisequoia
October 1, 2012, 3:31 am
I derived greater pleasure just now by breaking my previous record time by one second.

[Toeprint]

"It is only the ignorant who despise education. "
— Publilius Syrus

datagawa
September 30, 2010, 1:53 am
Publius
bansaisequoia
October 24, 2010, 3:59 am
I beg to differ. (link)