Things that Bansai left for us

[Toeprint]

"Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

bansaisequoia
July 14, 2009, 12:38 am
Well, tell that to Newt Gingrich and any other legislator who wants to do away with the National Endowment for the Arts. (link)

[Toeprint]

"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. "
— Henri Frederic Amiel

saipanwriter
February 8, 2011, 4:06 am
"prevision"--not your ordinary word!
bansaisequoia
May 26, 2012, 7:14 pm
It sounds like a word used by preverts.

[Toeprint]

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

bansaisequoia
December 29, 2016, 8:55 am
Jest leaves you feeling cleaner than soap!

[Toeprint]

"You are only as wise as others perceive you to be."
— M. Shawn Cole

bansaisequoia
October 23, 2012, 12:25 am
Even if I'm aboard a ship of fools?

[Toeprint]

[Note: Andre Gide was initially mis-spelled, but has since been corrected.]


"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
— Andre Gide

bansaisequoia
August 27, 2009, 10:18 pm
The author of this quote is Andre Gide.

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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
— Andre Gide

bansaisequoia
September 6, 2009, 8:16 pm
The author of this quote is Andre Gide.

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"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
— Andre Gide

bansaisequoia
September 16, 2009, 9:19 pm
The author of this quote is Andre Gide.

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"It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not."
— Andre Gide

bansaisequoia
May 2, 2010, 4:11 am
Andre Gide

[Toeprint]

"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."
— Hermann Hesse

bansaisequoia
August 17, 2010, 6:33 pm
Pretend?

[Toeprint]

"The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. "
— Thomas J. Peters

bansaisequoia
March 8, 2012, 8:10 pm
Hmmm... that's a rather thought provoking aphorism, Peters. (Sucker! Now we'll get more and better aphorisms out of him without giving him a thin dime or a plugged nickel for a raise)

[Toeprint]

"The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. "
— Georg Lichtenberg

bansaisequoia
September 12, 2009, 12:16 am
Some have a differing viewpoint and believe that primates actually do create representational art.
bansaisequoia
September 21, 2009, 8:00 pm
(link)

[Toeprint]

"The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility."
— Charles Mathias, Jr.

bansaisequoia
August 15, 2011, 11:07 am
I used to have a Chuck Connors "Cowboy In Africa" lunch box. What was yours? (link)
bansaisequoia
August 6, 2012, 4:46 pm
Oops! My older image expired. Here it is again. (link)

[Toeprint]

“A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. "
— Orson Welles

bansaisequoia
November 21, 2009, 7:14 pm
Did he say any of his own films were good. "Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"--Orson Welles

[Toeprint]

"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
— Scott Adams

bansaisequoia
October 26, 2010, 8:47 pm
I thought the creator liked irrational numbers like pi and e.

[Toeprint]

"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
— Ashley Montagu

bansiasequoia
February 28, 2010, 11:32 pm
Isn't it rather redundant to say, "The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings..."?

7.

bonzaisequaio

February 19, 2010

12 seconds

9.

bansaisequoia

April 16, 2011

13 seconds

[Toeprint]

"The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system."
— Robert C. Peale

bansaisequoia
July 18, 2013, 8:58 pm
The infant mortality rate has dropped, but the mortality rate is 100% for persons born over 130 years ago.

[Toeprint]

"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. "
— Jean Rostand

kokumo
July 6, 2012, 5:45 am
He wrote Cyrano de Bergerac. Possibly my favorite play
bansaisequoia
August 18, 2012, 6:52 pm
So what did this guy write? (link)

[Toeprint]

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "
— John F. Kennedy

PianoManGidley
February 19, 2009, 10:05 am
I think "jailor" is the more common spelling.
LiveLoveLaugh
July 18, 2009, 6:34 pm
jailer is correct
bansaisequoia
September 22, 2009, 5:40 pm
Either/or. (link) (link)
bansaisequoia
May 31, 2010, 4:22 pm
And let's not forget "gaoler."