Things that Bansai left for us

[Toeprint]

"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!

[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.

[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]

"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]

"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]

"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.

[Toeprint]

"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?

[Toeprint]

"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. "
— Doris Lessing

bansaisequoia
June 12, 2010, 2:39 am
Would you believe she's a Nobel Prize Winner?

[Toeprint]

"You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?"
— Bob Moawad

bansaisequoia
December 24, 2009, 6:17 pm
I'm trying to cover my tracks.

[Toeprint]

"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

kat
January 27, 2010, 4:14 pm
No.
bansaisequoia
October 12, 2010, 8:01 pm
Est stulti. Semper enim affirmatio ad feminas. [Translation: It's stupid. Always an affirmation for women.]
universalmom
April 11, 2013, 2:26 am
Minime, fatue. (Ad Spurgeonem loquitur) [Translation: No, you fool. (speaks to Spurgeon)]

[Toeprint]

"All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience. "
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

bansaisequoia
September 17, 2009, 10:41 pm
Since this was said by an Englishman, shouldn't it be "speciality?"

[Toeprint]

"If we don't take care of the customer... somebody else will. "
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
May 10, 2011, 6:01 am
Maybe we could get Bugsy Siegel to take care of them.... ....yeah, take care of them....

[Toeprint]

"All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it."
— Lyndon B. Johnson

MarcusAurelius
January 2, 2011, 2:10 pm
Who the hell is Hubert? Sounds like he is learning to be content no matter how meager his situation.
bansaisequoia
March 7, 2011, 1:17 am
Undoubtedly, Hubert H Humphrey.

[Toeprint]

"Pardon is the choicest flower of victory. "
— Proverb

bansaisequoia
November 4, 2009, 7:59 pm
I suppose. If you're walking the Green Mile.
Shirli
November 10, 2017, 1:17 pm
I wish someone could explain how the average time on this cryptogram is 122 and this Bansaisequoia person takes 9 seconds. That is impossible.
tclcac
September 7, 2019, 4:04 pm
Maybe this Bansaisequoia person is a computer whiz and has written a program that can be plugged in to solve it.
oddcouple
June 20, 2020, 5:07 pm
Bansai was a whiz, all right, but the "computer" he plugged in was his own.

[Toeprint]

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
— Anna Freud

bansaisequoia
October 8, 2009, 9:43 pm
I survived Conservatory. Some of my buds even went on to the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the London Classical Players.