A nickle ain't worth a dime any more.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
I have to comment on this one WM... I've heard this one before & really like it... so true, unfortunately.Originally Posted by WingedMonkey
The weather is here.......wish you were nice..........
"Walk long enough in the hills and you will find the tiger".
"Nobody uses the shelters anymore, they're too crowded." - If Yogi Berra had hiked the A.T.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
I believe Jimmy Buffett once saing "The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful"The weather is here.......wish you were nice..........
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General
"The marvels of modern technology include the development of a soda can which, when discarded, will last forever and a $10,000 car, which, when properly cared for, will rust out in 2--3 years."
“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in price.” --Ben Franklin
I carry a journal on every hike. I write down so may quotes and thoughts that I come across during each hike that I could write a book here. I'll ponder those thoughts and quotes during my entire hike and take those journals out off trail to reread and ponder those same thoughts many times over. I'm going to keep saying it - THRU-HIKING IS NOT JUST ABOUT HIKING!
If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to your
mountain, "MOVE!" and it WILL move... and NOTHING will be
impossible for YOU!
- Matthew 17:20
I enjoy aphorisms (pithy/old sayings) and the sometimes redundancy or conflicts between them, and in that context I came up with this one:
"Don’t burn your bridges before you count the unhatched chickens on the cart that’s before the horse."
Of course, then there are all the counter-aphorisms for that set, such as "A stitch in time saves nine", "Look before you leap", probably others (?). Fun stuff. Aphorisms are like statistics, insofar as you can seemingly always find one to demonstrate what you want to demonstrate (which generally is an after the fact observation that someone else should have acted differently).
Gadget
PCT: 2008 NOBO, AT: 2010 NOBO, CDT: 2011 SOBO, PNT: 2014+2016
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain.
"We don't grow too old to play, we grow old because we stop playing." Ben Franklin.
"Hurry up slowly"
"He may grow old but he'll never grow up".........my wife.
The quote in my signature, from General Lee.
“I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all I have never mentioned.” --Edward Abbey
“You’re all invited on my tour, and if you don’t like it, you’re free to get off, and I’ll invite you on the next one. But I’m the tour guide. And it’s my tour, and I know why I am doing it”.
On a gravestone in the Quaker Cemetary, Camden SC:
Listen friends as you pass by,
as you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you will be.
Prepare yourselves, and follow me.
Please don't read my blog at theosus1.Wordpress.com
"I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Thank God for Search and Rescue" - Robert Frost (first edit).
“Sometimes I wonder if I wasn’t born to animals and stolen by humans”.
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