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about not going into the grave easily but all beat to shreds?
Dances with Mice
11-26-2004, 12:09
about not going into the grave easily but all beat to shreds?"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand - martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"
I don't know the author.
Dances with Mice
11-26-2004, 12:12
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
--Hunter S. Thompson
That HAD to be Hunter! I hadn't heard it before, but I LIKE it!
Hacksaw
Kerosene
11-26-2004, 21:33
One of my favorites:
You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing.
This topic is cool. How many isms can we get?
Hereis mine.
Life is an adventure, NOT a guided tour!
Hacksaw :-?
TakeABreak
11-27-2004, 10:48
An expedition is not just about arriving at your destination, it's about the journey along the way.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin
FurTrappers
11-27-2004, 15:01
Here's one of mine....
"When things look bad, and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win, that's just the way it is." --The Outlaw Josey Wales
neighbor dave
11-28-2004, 08:16
i've seen a bear in the woods,and i've seen a beaver in the woods, but, i've never seen a bear beaver in the woods!!:jump :banana :D :clap
smokymtnsteve
11-28-2004, 08:47
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out
in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
Re post #11: Looks like "he's" back! :eek:
neighbor dave
11-28-2004, 13:22
nope!!! it's just me. ask peaks,he knows me.
jus got the word on what your talkin' about.
:jump :banana :clap :welcome
I just ran up on another one to which we can probably all relate on one level or another:
"Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify its offspring!"
Hacksaw
I am personally reminded of the time my 14 year old daughter and I were in the lingere' department in a local high end department store. (Hey, I am a single parent, I had to do all that stuff with my girl)
Lone Wolf
11-29-2004, 20:00
Live fast, die young and have a good looking corpse.
smokymtnsteve
11-29-2004, 20:46
Live fast, die young and have a good looking corpse.
well LW nethier me nor you will be able to leave a good looking corpse,
but there is still hope for BJ ;)
SavageLlama
11-29-2004, 21:06
Not really related to hiking but here are some good ones from Winston Churchill:
"I've taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
"I feel bad for people that don't drink. When they wake up, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
A little take off on LW's ism
"Live fast, die hard and LEAVE NO TRACE!"
My personal goal.
Hacksaw
Ain't this a fun thread?
smokymtnsteve
11-29-2004, 23:25
burn to complete crisp... scatter ashes
MileMonster
11-30-2004, 09:56
"Part of the irony of loving the natural world is understanding that it would be better off without human presence."
- from Rowing to Lattitude by Jill Fredston
Freighttrain
11-30-2004, 10:03
"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."
**** -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1899
The Will
11-30-2004, 11:51
"Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy, a pour forth generously over the world."
--Jack London, from Call of the Wild
Rain Man
11-30-2004, 14:00
"On the trail as in life, age doesn't have much to do with anything. It doesn't tell what your interests and priorities are, how much wisdom or insight you've gained, how you deal with people or life situations, and what you're capable of physically, mentally, or emotionally. It just indicates what year you were born."
The Are Mountains to Climb
by Jean Deeds aka "Indiana Jean"
page 126
Papa Razzi
11-30-2004, 14:54
I'm going to live forever or die trying.
-Yossarian, from Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
"I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm going to bring a
change of underwear."
------ Woody Allen
ga>me>ak
11-30-2004, 22:12
For people that complain about getting old...
With age comes wisdom, without the age, you don't get the wisdom
Money isn't everything, but, life sure sucks without any of it
smokymtnsteve
11-30-2004, 22:22
Age and treachery beats youth and vigor everytime. ;)
How about:
I've never seen a tombstone that said;
"I wish I'd spent more time at work"
Rosco
walkin' wally
12-01-2004, 12:30
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
G. Santayana