Things that Bansai left for us

[Toeprint]

"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. "
— Joseph Addison

connie
April 9, 2009, 3:38 pm
Who talks like that?
bansaisequoia
July 19, 2009, 8:02 pm
Joseph Addison.

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"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being."
— Jane Wyman

connie
April 7, 2009, 6:14 pm
Who talks like that?
bansaisequoia
May 31, 2009, 8:18 pm
Jane Wyman.

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"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. "
— William Butler Yeats

connie
April 10, 2009, 3:40 pm
Who talks like that?!
bansaisequoia
July 2, 2009, 11:02 pm
William Butler Yeats.

[Toeprint]

"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. "
— Seneca

bansaisequoia
January 30, 2011, 7:14 am
The serpent dared me to take a bite of that apple.

[Toeprint]

"Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. "
— Samuel Johnson

bansaisequoia
June 28, 2012, 6:57 pm
Real men drink flaming glasses of everclear and dribble it all over their beards. They snicker at their 2nd degree burns.

[Toeprint]

"On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers."
— Robert Jordan

bansaisequoia
April 16, 2010, 7:29 pm
I wonder if this comes from his novel, "The Path of Daggers?"
bansaisequoia
March 28, 2011, 6:42 am
(I give his novels ten stars for "boring." I won't even get it into pretentiously lengthy and redundant.)

[Toeprint]

"Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices."
— Shana Alexander

bansaisequoia
December 11, 2011, 4:44 pm
I'm having a bad hair life.

[Toeprint]

"Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, What's in it for me? "
— Peter de Vries

bansaisequoia
March 25, 2009, 5:41 pm
Since most cosmologists and astrophysicists believe that the universe is about 12 to 15 billion years old, and since their highest estimates are 20 billion years, I'm wondering how the author of the quote came up with a figure of 80 billion years?

[Toeprint]

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "
— Oscar Wilde

bansaisequoia
June 15, 2012, 5:55 pm
Gene and Laura Ingalls are Wilder.

[Toeprint]

"All things change, nothing perishes."
— Ovid

1.

bansaisequoia

October 3, 2011

5 seconds

JD_1947
November 18, 2014, 8:22 am
5 SECONDS!!! bansai, my hats off to you . . . it took me longer than that just to figure out where to start . . . !!!! . . . by the way, nice quote by Ovid . . . shows a lot of insight . . .
Synonymous
February 20, 2020, 10:31 pm
Very low success rate and I agree with JD_1947, Bansai was magnificent, hat's off.
Eureka
April 25, 2020, 6:50 pm
Nothing perishes, including bansai's brilliance.

[Toeprint]

"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. "
— Niccolo Machiavelli

bansaisequoia
May 23, 2009, 8:21 pm
Didya ever notice that there are Prince Matchabelli colognes, but Machiavelli wrote "The Prince"? Weird, huh?

[Toeprint]

"The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows."
— P. G. Wodehouse

bansaisequoia
March 27, 2012, 4:28 pm
Those butterflies are real party animals. And they're always blasting Heart's "Dog And Butterfly" from the speakers of their tricked out vehicles as they go to keggers and raves. Not to mention Elton John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight."

[Toeprint]

"A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid."
— Jack Benny

bansaisequoia
August 4, 2014, 10:17 am
What the schmuck is he talking about?

[Toeprint]

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. "
— Salvador Dali

bansaisequoia
September 25, 2011, 5:45 pm
I'm not angry!

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[Toeprint]

"Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one."
— Astrid Alauda

bansaisequoia
February 10, 2012, 8:32 pm
My temples are a part of my body.

[Toeprint]

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
— George Washington

bansaisequoia
July 3, 2012, 1:00 am
That's the best aphorism you could come up with?
debzhaus
August 15, 2016, 9:44 pm
It is better to offer no aphorism than a bad one.

[Toeprint]

"When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other."
— Alan Alda

bansaisequoia
September 8, 2012, 11:10 pm
They're usually not engaged in civil disorder, either. Alan Alda is such a riot!