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Here's a few I like:
“Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.”
-John Muir
“…in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages…in the woods we return to reason and faith.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's yours?
"To the dull mind nature is leaden.
To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is always a certain risk in being alive, and if you are more alive there is more risk"
Henrik Ibsen
and one that I first heard at a lecture by Alan Hinkes, the British mountaineer.
“Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime.
Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”
Edward Whymper
RovingArcher
13-07-2004, 20:35
"...and in the end, when I can no longer draw the bow or watch the arrow embark it's flight; when alas I possess only the spirit of the hunter, I will hunt...if only in my dreams...because the hunt is born amidst my soul, and I...I am a hunter."
Peter Lacavazzi
"Bl**dy Land Rovers, now whats broken" - Many, many people
TheViking
14-07-2004, 15:44
Hi...
"Even the longest journey begins with a step"
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in a hour...
Augories of Innocence - Wiliam Blake
TheViking
14-07-2004, 17:22
Hi...
"I don't know with what weapons the 3rd world war will be fought, but I know that the 4th will be fought with clubs".
Albert Einstein
TheViking
14-07-2004, 17:27
Hi again... :wink:
"When the wind of changes blows, there is two type of people: the ones who build shelters and the ones who build windmills."
"ramble on " robert plant and jimmy page
You'd s**g the crack of dawn if you got up early enough!
My old sgt major.
Or
Never share a shell scrape with anybody braver than yourself!
Sorry if that offended anyone! :?:
I'm going away to a far distant land
I'm going away for a while
But I'll return to you my love
I'll go ten thousand miles
The sun will dry up the ocean
Heavens will cease to be
The world will lose it's motion
If I prove false to thee
kelly joe phelps, taken from a traditional song" lass of loch royal",which i`ll add is exellent
G'day
Needed to share this one
Out of step with the crowd since i was young
By nature i love the mountains
Once by chance snared in the world's net:
Now i have lost thirty years.
Caged birds cry for their native woods.
Pooled fish long for deep waters....
to not know a thing and ask the question, is to know a moment of shame.
to not know a thing, not ask the question, and remain ignorant, is to know a liftime of shame.
i hve no idea where i read it.....
cheers, and.
jamesdevine
15-07-2004, 08:45
My husband is a real outdoor survival expert. For the last three months he has lived in a den on the riverbank, and eaten nothing but fish which he catchs himself by diving underwater.
Mind you he is a Otter
Mrs Otter, River Exe, Devon.
(Letter to Viz Mag 1995) As quoted in The Book of the Bivvy Chp 7
"The treasures of this world-Flashy jackets, walking poles, the satellite GPS navigator- cause only grief and envy. The abscence of a marble palace or a flexible-pole domeline tent may be more enjoyable than the proud possession of it."
The book of The Bivvy Ronald Turnbull
There was a young girl from france who.....
TheViking
20-07-2004, 17:44
Hi...
What about some latins?? :wink:
''Sapere Aude''
Roughly translated it would be something with: have the courage to use your own intellect... :wink: :-)
AntarcticFire
20-07-2004, 19:25
One of my favourites is:
"I banish fear with two words; you lead!" - Some Climber.
Hi...
What about some latins?? :wink:
Is 'Hakuna Matata' latin?
:wink:
So many quotes, so little time....
"I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member"
Groucho Mark
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can from a wise answer"
and a personal favourite...
"I've got a luvverly bunch of coconuts" :-)
TheViking
20-07-2004, 20:59
Hi...
Like 'Carpe Diem' latin..... :wink: :-)
Rule of survival: Pack your own parachute.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Some of my favourites are from the war - here's one and some more to come;
'The art of warfare is not to die for you country, but to make the other bast**d die for his'
General George S. Patton, Jr.
Command of the U.S. 3d Army -1944.
"Nuts"
General McAuliffe commanded the 101st Airborne Division and other troops at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge (WW 2) and this was his answer to a request to surrender by the commander of the surrounding German forces.
"O.K., let's go"
General Dwight D. Eisenhower words in the early hours of June 5 1944, these words launched the greatest invasion force in the history of warfare - you would of never of thought that these small words, meant so much.
Here is one I like by Bill Bryson:
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
And from another of my favorites, Carl Sagan:
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
MartiniDave
21-07-2004, 10:44
"Drink..." - Father Jack Hackett
Another from Sagan:
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
"Instinctively, there is a Woodlander in all of us."
My Wife - last year.
"Our ancient woodlands are a result of what happens when,
for once, man decides to work with nature as opposed to against it”
Me - last year.
" wait to your Father gets home"
My Mum - when I was a boy...........well, last year actually! :shock:
"Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or secret gate; And though I oft have passed them by, A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the moon, East of the sun." JRR Tolkien
also i like the on in my signature(sp)
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chugnut7
21-07-2004, 12:24
Never trust a man who doesn't wear a belt.
also...
"if you win the rat race, your still a rat" Banksy http://www.banksy.co.uk
bushwacker bob
21-07-2004, 13:48
''FECK''
father Jack
also...
"if you win the rat race, your still a rat" Banksy http://www.banksy.co.uk
The "NO FEAR" logos of the nineties always annoyed the hell out of me; the ones I especially remember were "Second place is first loser" and "If you can't win, don't play"
My own response to that last one is "If you can't lose gracefully, you don't deserve to win"
The whole ethos behind that logo makes me very, very angry; not the play to win element, the play to win at all costs one.
If it don't fit, force it.
If it breaks, it needed replaced anyway.
:-)
Measure by eye.
Mark with chalk.
Cut with axe.
Bang to fit!
The "NO FEAR" logos of the nineties always annoyed the hell out of me; the ones I especially remember were "Second place is first loser" and "If you can't win, don't play"
My own response to that last one is "If you can't lose gracefully, you don't deserve to win"
The whole ethos behind that logo makes me very, very angry; not the play to win element, the play to win at all costs one.
yes... i see where you are coming from... but they are compleat oposites, the "no fear" slogans suggest winning is the only worth while outcome... but Banksy suggests that even if you win its not that great anyhow
TheViking
21-07-2004, 20:37
"What I hear, I forget.
What I see, I remember.
What I try, I master!"
Chinese quote. I guess the short version would be 'Learning by doing'?!?! :biggthump
Posted this (earlier signature) because i got a new sig now.... :wink:
Keith_Beef
21-07-2004, 22:26
Hi...
What about some latins?? :wink:
''Sapere Aude''
Roughly translated it would be something with: have the courage to use your own intellect... :wink: :-)
I'd render it as "Dare to know".
Keith.
Keith_Beef
21-07-2004, 22:31
Never trust a man who doesn't wear a belt.
Never trust a skinny butcher.
Keith.
qweeg500
22-07-2004, 00:23
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail (Atilla the Hun)
Nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth (Benny Hill)
Matt
Roving Rich
22-07-2004, 14:14
:o): :lol: :lol:
I like that cheap pun.
And i trusted my skinny butcher, he was a prisoner of war and worked on THE bridge on the river quai. He never recovered from the starvation and remained gaunt and wiry for the rest of his days
Rich
TheViking
22-07-2004, 14:37
I'd render it as "Dare to know".
See, the thing is that it is translated to danish from latin (which is difficult directly to do) and then I translated it from danish to english, so.... :wink: :biggthump (and I did it right :wink: :biggthump )
Searched a little on the net and it can mean both... The 2 sentences are quiet the same, just in a shorter and longer version.
Tomtom: "yes... i see where you are coming from... but they are compleat oposites, the "no fear" slogans suggest winning is the only worth while outcome... but Banksy suggests that even if you win its not that great anyhow"
Totally agree, and Banksy's is a good quote. The rat race is not there to be won, it's there (I think) to be rejected, or at least avoided if at all possible.
<returns to work at his central London desk - daydreaming of the coming weekend...>
Tomtom: "yes... i see where you are coming from... but they are compleat oposites, the "no fear" slogans suggest winning is the only worth while outcome... but Banksy suggests that even if you win its not that great anyhow"
Totally agree, and Banksy's is a good quote. The rat race is not there to be won, it's there (I think) to be rejected, or at least avoided if at all possible.
<returns to work at his central London desk - daydreaming of the coming weekend...>
oh right.. my misunderstanding :wink:
I prefer the absences and the big empties, where the wind ricochets from sand grain to mountain. I prefer the crystalline dryness and an unadulterated sky strewn from horizon to horizon with stars. I prefer the raw edges and the unfinished hems of the desert landscape... Desert is where I want to be when there are no more questions to ask." - Ann -Haymond Zwinger
The Mysterious Lands
SquirrelBoy
24-07-2004, 16:17
"Who Dares Wins"
SAS or Del Boy (delete as oppro) :o):
“you can be so open minded that your brain falls out of your head”
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." --John Ruskin
This is fun!!
"Ahh, Beer, the cause, and solution to all our problems"
A currently relevent one:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "
--John Stewart Mill—
And to finish:
“Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. If you practice crap, you will become a Crapmaster."
"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity...
Lick it once, and you suck forever."
I've had a wonderful evening... but this wasn't it."
hobbitboy
24-07-2004, 20:13
"The pen is mightier than the sowrd, but you need keep a sword close by in case the pen fails"
:roll:
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~ Jung
and another
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. ~ Jung
SquirrelBoy
24-07-2004, 23:54
" Who`s more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him " - Obi Wan Kenobi
" Try not. Do or Do not. There is no try " - Yoda
" We make a living by what we get. But make a life by what we give " - Winston Churchill
MartiniDave
28-07-2004, 10:23
"Eunachs are not born, they are created" - Char Walla "It ain't half hot mum!"
TheViking
09-08-2004, 20:46
''Sapere Aude''
Or "Dare to think for yourself"...... :wink: :biggthump
RovingArcher
09-08-2004, 21:54
As the two men stood looking into the chest of a great bear, one turns to the other and says, how are we going to out run him? The other looks at his companion and replies, "I only need to out run you".
"old fishermen never die... they just smell that way"
tenbears10
09-08-2004, 23:03
It is better to live one day as a tiger than your whole life as a sheep.
However as Alison Hargreaves found this can have fatal consequences. I still had the utmost respect for her though.
and my personal favorite
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Four Quarters, Little Gidding, pt. 5
Bill
TheViking
29-08-2004, 09:37
Hi...
"In nature their are neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences!"
Squidders
29-08-2004, 12:14
Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked in to jet engines. - Unknown
Dip me in jam and throw me to the lesbians - Me
To err is human, to moo is bovine - Me again
I think therefor you are - God
God created all men - Sam Colt made them equal!
Its not the size of your knife that matters - but what you create with it!
I might not like what you have to say - but I'll die for your right to say it.
No man is truely free while he allows another man to tell him he is.
Laws are chains we all wear as slaves of state.
A weak man will complain about that which a bold man will silently over come, yet in bemoaning his softeness only the weaklings voice gets heard.
Squidders
29-08-2004, 14:14
God created all men - Sam Colt made them equal!
:rolmao: :lol: :rolmao: :lol: :super: :o):
The pen is mightier than the sword - only when the sword is very small and the pen very sharp - Terry Pratchett
The pen is mightier than the sword - but it is by the sword that the pen is free to write :nana:
Only the squeaking clog gets the oil
Judge me not by my words but by my deeds - for words are cheap yet in action is a man's heart truely revealed.
Nobility is not a right born of breeding but a right born of thought and deed.
You believe you are right, so it is better that I am wrong in your eyes than to be seen as wrong in my own.
TheViking
09-09-2004, 19:00
Hi...
When I was eating dinner for 10 minutes ago, I made up a new quote!
"It's not the way you do it that counts... It's the results!"
Cheers :uu:
"lives all about ass, your either covering, kicking it, kissing it or try to get it"
Sometimes your the windscreen, sometimes your the bug!
Times fun when your having flies
Kermit the Frog
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana
Anon
TheViking
18-10-2004, 20:49
"We must all fear evil men. But there is a thing we must fear most... and that is, the indifference of good men!"
The priest in Boondock Saints
arctic hobo
18-10-2004, 22:07
The quote of great truth (fellow engineers will understand) :o):
To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimised and feature-poor toys. :o):
Nightfall
18-10-2004, 22:29
A few I like The early bird may get the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese. Talk is cheap and lies are expensive. Shine it may, run it must. The last one is from a old cheif petty officer from my second ship when I was in the navy.
Saw this on a van today and thought it appropriate,
Moderator: unfortunatly its not approprate here! :roll:
To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimised and feature-poor toys.
that makes me an engineer then :o):
I make you right there Stu!
What about these:
"what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"
"luctor et emergo"
"All of life’s problems can be solved with two things—duct tape and WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, you need duct tape. And if it doesn’t move and it should, you need WD40"
"Don't eat yellow snow"
TheViking
21-10-2004, 20:43
"Don't eat yellow snow"
I have to be honest: i've heard and seen that one so many times, it's drivin' me nuts! :shock: :yikes:
I prefer to paraphrase one: "whenever I hear the word lifestyle I reach for a machine gun."
George
I have to be honest: i've heard and seen that one so many times, it's drivin' me nuts! :shock: :yikes:
Believe me Viking, if you are really eating or rather drinking snow high up in the Alps, it does become a very wise saying :wink:
Lennart
Carcajou Garou
22-10-2004, 21:49
The Valiant taste of death but once
A coward dies a thousand times
To thyne self be thru. Shakespeare?
just a thought
A quote from 'New Internationalist' November issue.
Power cannot tell things as they are. For example, when it says 'terrorism in Iraq', it should ususally say 'national resistance to foreign occupation'.
Eduardo Galeano.
Bushmaster
07-11-2004, 01:11
I like this one
"Rules are for the guidance off wise men,and the blind obedience of idiots"
My Grandad!
Geoff
:ekt:
Abbe Osram
08-11-2004, 15:28
A quote from Krishnamurti;
Without being simple, one cannot be sensitive - to the trees, to the birds, to the mountains, to the wind, to all the things which are going on about us in the world; if one is not simple one cannot be sensitive to the inward intimation of things.
cheers
Abbe
TheViking
21-11-2004, 18:55
"Do you fear the force of the wind,
The slash of the rain?
Go face them and fight them,
Be savage again.
Go hungry and cold like the wolf,
Go wade like the crane.
The palms of your hands will thicken,
The skin of your forehead tan--
You'll be ragged and swarthy and weary
But--you'll walk like a man."
-Dan Beard.
TheViking
25-11-2004, 16:40
Erara humanum est :wink:
RovingArcher
25-11-2004, 17:18
A quote from 'New Internationalist' November issue.
Power cannot tell things as they are. For example, when it says 'terrorism in Iraq', it should ususally say 'national resistance to foreign occupation'.
Eduardo Galeano.
Yep. Seems when the people don't hear the truth, they feel better about their new found loyalties to those they fear the most. Themselves.
Nightfall
26-11-2004, 01:14
This one may have already been said "Teach your children and you teach your grandchildren".
TheViking
04-12-2004, 16:54
This one goes for kit, knives, etc.
I made it up myself actually: "touch before you judge". :wink:
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantasm, a dream.......
From the Diamond Sutra.
Shakyamuni Buddha c. 500 BC
Paganwolf
04-12-2004, 19:13
This one goes for kit, knives, etc.
I made it up myself actually: "touch before you judge". :wink:
Thats the one fella!!!!!! or "USE BEFORE YOU ABUSE" :wink:
This one goes for kit, knives, etc.
I made it up myself actually: "touch before you judge". :wink:
That a good one Vike :wink:
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me, than a full frontal lobotomy :shock:
Jeroen Zuiderwijk
05-12-2004, 22:12
If it don't fit, force it.
If it breaks, it needed replaced anyway.
:-)
That sounds like a true mechanic. Here's what an aeronautical engineer would have as reply: "When a plane crashes, we can trace down exactly which mechanic used a hammer to beat in a pin that didn't fit, damaging the lug, which eventually broke due to metal fatigue, causing several hundred passengers to fall towards their deaths. When something doesn't fit, report!"
And another engineer's quote: "I'm an aeronautical engineer. I have the knowledge to either make you feel completely safe in an airplane, or to make you never dare to step into one ever again." :wink:
Both are by me, and I have a whole bag more like these :-)
Jeroen Zuiderwijk
05-12-2004, 22:16
What about these:
"what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"
My addition to that one: "First, don't die!" :wink:
"All of life’s problems can be solved with two things—duct tape and WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, you need duct tape. And if it doesn’t move and it should, you need WD40"
I like that one :biggthump
Rule for precision: Measure with a micrometer - Mark with chalk - Cut with an axe - Bash to fit! :yikes:
One of my favourite motorcycle ones.....
Designed in a pub..... Built in a shed....... Ridden by a *@#!% :yikes:
Squidders
06-12-2004, 08:41
If at first you don't succeed, sky diving isn't for you.
-Me
If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.
If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.
I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
- Jack Handy
I'm not lost; just locationally challenged.
It was said by an explorer and was on the boxes of silva compasses. I cant remember the explorer- anyone have a silva box!!??
Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
nice :rolmao:
You edited while I was posting :super:
Give a man a fish and he will be fed for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you have ruined a perfectly good business opportunity :biggthump
TheViking
06-12-2004, 15:03
Give a man a fish and he will be fed for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you have ruined a perfectly good business opportunity :biggthump
:rolmao: :biggthump Good one.
bambodoggy
06-12-2004, 15:29
"Am I scared? ? ?...What, you think I'm apprehensive because I'm happy"? ? ?
"of course your not anti-social... especialy when there is no one within 50k of you"
Mr Cissey
06-12-2004, 15:38
One for our glorious leaders:
'Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant'
bambodoggy
06-12-2004, 16:00
"Never trust an English household that makes you take your shoes off as you enter their home".
"Can't talk.......eating" - Homer J Simpson.
"I think, therefore I am" - René Descartes.
"I am, therefore I must be" - Monty Python.
"Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes".
"This looks like a complicated job, better get a bigger hammer", - My father, Ex-REME and British Airways machanic amoungst others I suspect.
"Go on, you'll be fine" - Several mates as I tried out our newly built "death slide" as a kid.
TheViking
06-12-2004, 16:19
"Go on, you'll be fine" - Several mates as I tried out our newly built "death slide" as a kid.
I reckon. :-P :wink: :roll: :shock:
"I think, therefore I am" - René Descartes.
"I am, therefore I must be" - Monty Python..
"I'm pink, therefore I'm spam"
"Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes".
Then you can judge him all you want, 'cos you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.
From an "England's Glory" matchbox donkey's years ago..
"Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way"
To be is to do (I. Kant)
To do is to be (A. Sartre)
Do-be-do-be-do (F. Sinatra)
Yabba-Dabba-Doo! (F. Flinstone)
Haggis is a kind of stuff black pudding eaten by the Scots and considered by them to be not only a delicacy but fit for human consumption. The minced heart, liver and lungs of a sheep, calf or other animal's inner organs are mixed with oatmeal, sealed and boiled in maw in the sheep's intestinal stomach-bag and... [Excuse me a minute.]
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.
I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel
But it was just some Git with a torch bringing me more work !
Moonraker
07-12-2004, 02:03
Quote from a recent Radio 4 comedy show.
"He sung like a horse?"
Women asking why a rather drunk girlfriend, out for the night, was not returning home from a first date and mishearing her a little :o):
I was in stitches. Why is it that some little thing can crease you in half... :-)
TheViking
18-12-2004, 23:13
"Do all the good to your neighbor you can,
do as little harm as possible,
and trust in God."
Daniel Boone's motto
TheViking
08-01-2005, 15:00
"Plus esse quam simultatur"
Rhapsody
08-01-2005, 16:57
"In the world I see, you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower... and when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway. "
Tyler Durden - Fight Club.
We can only hope.