Famous Quotes that could pertain to Geocaching.

3.9k · September 16, 2003

There is too much gloom in the fourms today. Try to find a famous quote that could pretain to Geocaching...or twist it a might if you need to make it fit. My example is...

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

El Diablo

Everything you do in life...will impact someone,for better or for worse.

http://www.geo-hikingstick.com

8.4k · September 16, 2003

OOoooo. A fun thread.

Mine:

All I got is this here piece of hard rock candy, but its not fer eatin. It's just ferr lookin through. - Chief Dan George

Sngans

Sacred cows make the best hamburger....Mark Twain.

September 16, 2003

Well, you have to include this one, used prominently on skydiver.com

"We never seek things for themselves -- what we seek is the very seeking of things." -Blaise Pascal

3.9k · September 16, 2003

I can't agree more. Nobody is allowed to complain about anything fot the next 7 days. Except to complain about people complaing. thats allowed. My quote is my quote. by Robert Frost...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Because now I am Lost.

September 16, 2003

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

-Lewis Carrol

September 16, 2003

Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; however if the melody had not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable."

-Nietzsche

September 16, 2003

A political quote,

"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'"

-Russell Long

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Cache me out dammit, I'm in a hurry!

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

-Thomas Jefferson

September 16, 2003

ooh, I like this one better,

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep."

-Robert Frost

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Cache me out dammit, I'm in a hurry!

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

-Thomas Jefferson

38.2k · September 16, 2003

"The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expected" - Hugh Prather

"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going"- Goethe

And one pertaining to the forums:

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and begin again" - Andre Gilde

"You can't make a man by standing a sheep on his hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" - Max Beerbohm

September 16, 2003

I placed a cache a while back GCD32F and asked folks to leave quotes and so I've reviewed the quotes and chosen one for this thread.

The required quote here online I'll leave to old Longfellow, who's classic metaphor can speak for anyone who's ever put in a cache of their own:

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For who has sight so keen and strong,

That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow, still unbroke;

And the song, from beginning to end,

I found again in the heart of a friend.

September 16, 2003

"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers."

-Anon.

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Cache me out dammit, I'm in a hurry!

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

-Thomas Jefferson

September 16, 2003

My cache log from Verona, No Gentleman (GC3058), a Shakespeare-inspired cache:

August 2 by Metaphor

On the walk: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head..."

On the cache: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing..."

On the Travel bug: "Oh, you gods, why do you make us love your goodly gifts, and snatch them straight away..." (bug taken 7/17)

To the cache owner: "I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks..."

"All of us are standing in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

September 16, 2003

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

-Yogi Berra

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Matt

K7MTO

September 16, 2003

The old dreams were good dreams. They didn't work out...but I'm glad I had 'em. (Bridges of Madison County)

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

22k · September 16, 2003

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island..."

Oops that's not pro- geocaching, how about..

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first."

and my favorite line from a bad movie: a couple asking a man for directions:

Can we walk there from here?

You can walk there from anywhere!

8.4k · September 16, 2003

Tomorrow is the greatest labor saving invention of today. - Anonymus

Yard work? I think I'll do it tomorrow. After all there's 15 new caches listed. - Mark aka Snoogans

Sngans

Sacred cows make the best hamburger....Mark Twain.

September 16, 2003

"The best way out is always through."

-Robert Frost

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Cache me out dammit, I'm in a hurry!

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

-Thomas Jefferson

September 16, 2003

Last one...for now,

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Woody Allen

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Cache me out dammit, I'm in a hurry!

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

-Thomas Jefferson

September 16, 2003

"Was lost but now I'm found. Was blind but now I see." Amazing Grace I think.

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Dorothy: "How can you talk if haven't got a brain?" Scarecrow: "I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?"

3.9k · September 16, 2003

I bet we can all relate to this one while caching...

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

El Diablo

Everything you do in life...will impact someone,for better or for worse.

http://www.geo-hikingstick.com

3.9k · September 16, 2003

My wife The Princess of Darkness came up with this one. An example of a twist.

"dadgum the mesquitos and the posin ivy. Full speed ahead."

David Glasgow Farragut.

El Diablo

Everything you do in life...will impact someone,for better or for worse.

http://www.geo-hikingstick.com

September 16, 2003

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

3.9k · September 16, 2003

The long brown path before me, leading wherever

I choose!

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I am good-

fortune...

-Walt Whitman

September 16, 2003

'All of us get lost in the darkness, Dreamers learn to steer by the stars.

All of us do time in the gutter, Dreamers turn to look at the cars.'

-Neil Peart

from 'The Pass' on the 'Presto' album, by Rush

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If trees could scream, would we still cut them down?

Well, maybe if they screamed all the time, for no reason.

Click here for my Geocaching pictures and Here (newest)

8.4k · September 16, 2003

Here's one of my very own:

Geocaching: Wayyy more chances to contract West Nile Virus, or Lyme Disease, than the average person.

Sngans

Sacred cows make the best hamburger....Mark Twain.

September 16, 2003

If, at first, you don't succeed, log a 'couldn't find it', it won't kill you.

-martmann

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If trees could scream, would we still cut them down?

Well, maybe if they screamed all the time, for no reason.

Click here for my Geocaching pictures and Here (newest)

September 16, 2003

"And if we are lost, then we are lost together" - Blue Rodeo

-Donna G

September 16, 2003

Here's one with a twist.

"One small step for man, one giant leap for a geocacher." Neil Armstrong

BTW I got first dibs on putting a geocache on the moon. Now were did I put that dynomite?

I bought a GPSr so the ladies would stop telling me to get lost. It didn't work .

September 16, 2003

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

--Albert Einstein (03/14/1879-1955)

September 16, 2003

"Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party." - Jimmy Buffett

September 16, 2003

I still haven't found what I'm looking for. - U2

September 16, 2003

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

- Aeschylus

September 16, 2003

Lincoln Reviews a {Cache}

For those who like this kind of a {cache}, this is the kind of a {cache} they will like.

Page 34 A Treasury of the Familiar, Edited by Ralph L. Woods.

For those looking for those great words of wisdom, or other famous or interesting quotes, please check out this series. There are three books, all of them having quotes like the one above and below.

See the happy moron

He doesn't give a da**

I wish I were a moron

My God, perhaps I am

Author Unkown

5.3k · September 16, 2003

"He says we're going the wrong way..."

"Oh, he's drunk. How would he know where we're going?"

-- Steve Martin & John Candy in Planes, Trains & Automobiles

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

Eamus Catuli AC145895

1k · September 16, 2003

To paraphrase one of my favorite cartoonists:

"I got a rock....but it's a signature rock."

Charlie Brown, from "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."

Webfoot

Veni...Vidi...Vicachi.

I came...I saw...I geocached.

September 16, 2003

Not exactly famous, but what popped into my head...

"There you are, off in the distance,

Sunk without a prayer,

You may seek your own deliverance,

You'll never find it there."

Robin Trower, "Fly Low".

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- Team Og Rof A Klaw

All who wander are not lost.

September 16, 2003

Another, possibly for five-star terrain:

"Jump in the river and learn to swim,

God's gonna wash away all of your sins.

And if you still ain't seen the light,

God's gonna buy you a satellite!"

The Hooters, "Satellite"

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- Team Og Rof A Klaw

All who wander are not lost.

September 16, 2003

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

- Yogi Berra

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All weal drive, the only way to go!

September 16, 2003

How about this one:

seek and ye shall find

-god

September 16, 2003

Here's one:

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."-Jawaharlal Nehru

"We'd mount an expedition heading up into the bay,superstitious children playing Pirate for a Day."-Jimmy Buffett

September 16, 2003

I found another one:

"It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us."-Real Live Preacher, RealLive Preacher.com

"We'd mount an expedition heading up into the bay,superstitious children playing Pirate for a Day."-Jimmy Buffett

September 16, 2003

"I came. I saw. I logged."

Visit the Mississippi Geocaching Forum at

http://pub98.ezboard.com/bgeocachingms

September 16, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by The BeeGees:
I still haven't found what I'm looking for. - U2

Good one!

Since others are including lyrics, this is what immediately popped into my head. Maybe I have a different take on things, but this kind speaks to the somewhat isolated nature of the way we participate.

Walked out this morning

Don't believe what I saw

A hundred billion bottles

Washed up on the shore

Seems I'm not alone at being alone

A hundred billion casatways

Looking for a home

3.9k · September 16, 2003

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[This message was edited by J&MBella on September 16, 2003 at 09:08 PM.]

3.9k · September 16, 2003

'Tis said, that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey, and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let this be lesson to us all. Rehide the cache well or suffer the same fate.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Because now I am Lost.

[This message was edited by J&MBella on September 16, 2003 at 09:14 PM.]

3.8k · September 16, 2003

I can't remember who says it, but it goes like this:

"If it feels good...do it"

==============="If it feels good...do it"================

**(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")**

.

September 16, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by sept1c_tank:
I can't remember who says it, but it goes like this:

_"If it feels good...do it"_

That was Ruth Westheimer whose pathetic pleas for approval by telling people what they want to hear led to a society where things like HIV become epidemics - yeay!

September 16, 2003

I think an appropriate one, considering the latest happenings here, would be by our own Jeremy: "Discuss geocaching, don't be a hairless rat".

As for a twist on an old quote, I wonder if Will Rogers were a geocacher, would he say this, "All I know is what I read in the forums." ?

1.5k · September 17, 2003

I haven't seen this one yet, I can't believe it's not here yet.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road. The Good Witch

1.7k · September 17, 2003

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Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes

On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:

"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --

"Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"

Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898

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