My Favorite Quotes...

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
--- Mark Twain

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
--- Elizabeth Hubbard

“Can we actually ‘know’ the universe? My God, it’s hard enough finding your way around Chinatown.”
--- Woody Allen

“All the people like us are we. And everyone else is they.”
--- Rudyard Kipling

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
--- Will Rogers

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”
-- Minna Antrim

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
-- T. S. Elliot

“The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues – self-restraint.”
-- Edwin Way Teale

“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but in the end it is the journey that matters.”
-- Ursula K. LeGuin

“No, I was never lost, but I was confused for a few days once.”
-- Daniel Boone

“To different minds, the same world is a hell and a heaven.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
-- Helen Keller

Q. What’s the difference between a hiker and a homeless person?

A. Gortex
--Big Red aka Greg Benkert

“Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.”
-- Leo Buscaglia

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither
Deep roots are not touched by frost.”
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

“The art of life is often lost in the pace of living.”
-- Danette Rice

“There is no arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an eastwind is to put on your overcoat.”
-- James Lowell

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”
-- Henry Louis Meneken

“Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
-- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

“Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
-- Plato

Press on: Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
-- Calvin Coolidge

“If I had my life to live over I’d like to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier that I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans.. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter that I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would ride more merry-go-rounds, I would pick more daisies”
-- Nadine Stair

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong – because someday you will have been all of these.”
-- George Washington Carver

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please.”
-- Mark Twain

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.”
-- Sir John Lubbock

“It Is not the critic who counts; no the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory not defeat.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt

“My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.”
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder


“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind.”
-- Dr. Seuss


“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.”
-- Mark Twain

“Going into the woods and the wild place has little to do with recreation, and much to do with creation. For the wilderness is the creation in its pure state, its processes unqualified by the doings of people. A man in the woods comes face to face with the creation, of which he must begin to see himself a part – a much less imposing part than he thought.”
-- Wendell Berry

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds.”
-- Louis Nizer