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Famous Quotes that could pertain to Geocaching.


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Great wisdom from a master TB finder:

 

"It's a web of life, in my opinion, and absolutely any movement is the next step in reaching it's goal. That weird side trip to Florida, may be the next step to Canada. And a side trip may have saved it from going MIA by pilferage in Pennsylvania."

 

bthomas on the subject of TB movement 10/27/2003

 

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If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

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Here's two of my favorites:

 

What is your Name? What is your Quest? What is your favorite color?

 

Monty Python - Search for the Holy Grail

 

There are strange things done,

in the Midnight Sun,

by the men who moil for Gold.

 

The Cremation of Sam McGee

by Robert L. Service

 

If you can't find it, you ain't looking hard enough!

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"My Precious"

-Gollum

 

"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try."

-Yoda

 

"Who's the more foolish . . . the fool or the fool who follows him?"

-Obi-Wan

 

"Little by little, one travels far."

-J. R. R. Tolkien

 

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

-J. R. R. Tolkien

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Here's a few that I don't think have appeared yet.... enjoy:

 

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

- John M. Ford

 

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.

- Walker Percy

 

He who would travel happily must travel light.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

 

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

- Colette (1873 - 1954), Paris From My Window, 1944

 

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do then 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. Discover.

- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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what happened that day on the hillside

you and I shivered from grief not from weather...

what happened that day, so long ago?

you laughed at my only suggestion

it's hard to keep finding answers to questions

-ronnie martin

 

~note on lyric origin:

ronnie IS a synthisizer/vocals only group (joy electric) that is suprisingly loud & darned awesome live. this is part of a song from his side project (he's guitar/bass/vocals, another guy does the drums), shepherd: commiting to tape . I just bought it from ronnie, personaly, last night, after his show. I also saw ronnie's brothers' (jason martin) group, starflyer 59, last night. they are one of the only groups that I hold higher than joy electric. here's part of one of their songs

 

your bet is lost

you're fading slow

sundown

the dark has laid you low

your slipping heart....

sundown

the dark has laid you low

 

i'm sure we've all had a feeling like this at the end of a good caching day.

 

i'll try to find some more

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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca

 

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

 

What a long, strange trip it’s been. - Jerry Garcia

 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

 

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. - William Durant, founder of General Motors

 

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot

 

So long, and thanks for all the fish. - Douglass Adams

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Don't forget Yogi ...

 

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

 

"Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical."

 

"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."

 

and my all time favorite Yogi Berra quote ...

 

"I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."

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We shall go on to the end

We shall find in France, we shall find on the seas and oceans

We shall find with growing confidence and growing strength in the air

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be

We shall find on the beaches,

We shall find on the landing grounds

We shall find in the fields, and in the streets

We shall find in the hills

We shall never surrender

 

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

(slightly amended by yours truly)

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The only true law is that which leads to freedom. Jonathon Livingstone Seagull

 

The only thing stopping you from doing it is pain, and pain doesn't hurt you! Odd logic from LeatherKnight's father

 

I like this thread a lot. More to come!

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Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore --

Tell me where the cache is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"

Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

 

 

Are you crying? THERE'S NO CRYING IN GEOCACHING!

 

Trying to find waypoint you are, young Cachewalker? Do or not do - there is no try!

 

 

New movie title: Snakes on a Cache.

 

 

And probably the truest line: "Ohhh....that's gonna leave a bruise."

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For the caches you ran out of time for, or DNF'd:

 

"Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back."

 

(The Road Not Taken--Robert Frost)

 

For the "Will caching survive?" crowd:

 

Now we are engaged in a great forum debate, questioning whether that hobby, or any hobby so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

 

(My apologies, President Lincoln! :) )

 

BuckeyeClan

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Lead upward to the peaks; and there

I feel, pushing my ribs apart,

The wide sky entering my heart.

 

"Roads" Bryon Herbert Reece

 

I just ran across this today, while googling up information about this Appalachian Mountain poet. I have to admit I had never heard of him until I did a Waymark for a Georgia Historical Marker I found last week.

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