The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
adj. Merely mechanical; routine; ordinary, not refined; used pejoratively.
contempt for the banausic occupations – T. S. Eliot:
“a sensitive, self-conscious creature . . . in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment” (London Magazine).
being implicated in the banausic business of paid employment which the Greeks traditionally found so distasteful”
“Would you tell me please, which way I ought to walk from here?”
“That depends a great deal on where you want to go, ” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where — “, said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you walk,” said the Cat.
J’ai dit souvent que tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne avoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre.
I have often said that all man’s unhappiness came from one thing, that is, not to know how to remain quietly in a room.
The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but most certainly willed. It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.