Things that Bansai left for us

[Toeprint]

"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe."
— Richard Gere

bansaisequoia
March 2, 2012, 5:51 pm
I'm more of a kudu than a narwhal.

[Toeprint]

"None loves the messenger who brings bad news. "
— Sophocles

bansaisequoia
April 25, 2011, 8:43 pm
None loves?

[Toeprint]

"Pretentious quotations are the surest road to tedium."
— Henry W. Fowler

momof6
April 19, 2009, 2:35 am
Then how come so many of us are addicted to this site?
kat
July 18, 2009, 6:34 pm
Mom has a point there...
bansaisequoia
September 20, 2009, 8:58 pm
We don't experience tedium because most of these quotes lack pretension. Do you feel quotes by Will Rogers, Bob Dylan or Satchel Paige are full of pretension?
kat
October 11, 2009, 11:11 pm
No..I suppose you're right Bansai. I could cheerfully do without some of Ben Franklin's and H.L. Mencken"s quotes even if I don't consider them pretentious.
bansaisequoia
January 25, 2010, 7:06 pm
And when you consider that Einstein is Einstein, and not the guy who cleans your pool or bags your groceries, his quotes seem pretty unpretentious, too.

[Toeprint]

"My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot."
— Ashleigh Brilliant

bansaisequoia
April 4, 2012, 11:46 pm
Mine is an epic with a cast of thousands. Admission is free. Or you can sneak in the exit door.

[Toeprint]

"One chops the wood, the other does the grunting. "
— Proverb

punga
April 28, 2009, 7:59 am
??
LiveLoveLaugh
November 7, 2009, 12:39 am
ugh
bansaisequoia
March 13, 2011, 12:13 am
punga just chopped the wood, and LiveLoveLaugh did the grunting.

[Toeprint]

"It's awesome. Every day is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books."
— Charlie Sheen

bansaisequoia
May 16, 2011, 3:58 pm
Actually, it looks like Ashton Kutcher is winning.

[Toeprint]

"Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently."
— John G. Vance

bansaisequoia
April 5, 2010, 11:19 pm
Eh. If you say so.

[Toeprint]

"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
— Clarence Thomas

bansaisequoia
September 20, 2009, 7:42 pm
Specious rhetoric. Groups are comprised of individuals.

[Toeprint]

"You are not an artist - an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate."
— Eric Pio

kat
January 13, 2010, 4:20 pm
I wonder who he was talking to...
bansaisequoia
July 16, 2010, 7:20 pm
Ergo, Enrico Caruso was not artistic. He didn't write the operas he sang.
pootie49
May 20, 2011, 6:55 pm
probably himself Kat.

[Toeprint]

"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."
— David Ben-Gurion

bansaisequoia
August 20, 2009, 12:46 am
I believe in miracles, you sexy thing.

[Toeprint]

"In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. "
— Edmund Burke

bansaisequoia
January 15, 2011, 2:00 pm
The Gallos I see are Ernest and Julio.

[Toeprint]

"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory. "
— Zig Ziglar

bansaisequoia
October 16, 2012, 2:54 pm
Robert Duvall said, "That smell--that gasoline smell--it smells like victory."

[Toeprint]

"It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears."
— Rod Serling

bansaisequoia
January 25, 2011, 7:14 pm
A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead. You're in the Zone.

[Toeprint]

"There is no such thing as a solitary Christian."
— John Wesley

bansaisequoia
September 12, 2010, 2:36 am
Then why did they cloister monks in Medieval times? (And, actually, this practice continues in the 21st Century)

[Toeprint]

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. "
— Christian Nestell Bovee

bansaisequoia
March 16, 2010, 11:01 pm
How do we know this isn't a delusion of yours?