Bushcraft Quotes

[Montivagus]

Well now that it's got serious.....

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
- Richard Kemph

A widely-read man never quotes accurately ... Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
- Hesketh Pearson

 

[andyn]

Nightwalker re post #99


WELL SAID

ditto. :

 

[andyn]

A widely-read man never quotes accurately ... Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
- Hesketh Pearson

Shouldnt you of like misquoted that?

 

[sandsnakes]

'Its buggering wet'

Me in a field when I discovered my rucksack leaked and everything I possesed was floating.

Sandnakes

 

[Rod]

To quote the venerated Father Jack Hackett: ... "Feck Off!"

 

[Montivagus]

Shouldnt you of like misquoted that?

If I quoted it correctly it was by sheer accident!

Bad bushcraft quotes anyone?

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
Buffalo Bill

 

[leon-b]

night walker i also heard it from ray mears i think it was the four seasons one but im not sure, i wonder who the originating source is im sure someone on here must know
leon

 

[The Joker]

To quote the venerated Father Jack Hackett: ... "Feck Off!"

My Hero

 

[Tadpole]

Patria est communis omnium parens. ~ Cicero











Quid rides?...De te fabula narratur. ~ Horace

 

[Ed]

Patria est communis omnium parens. ~ Cicero
Quid rides?...De te fabula narratur. ~ Horace

For those that didn't learn latin in school or that had an education in the classics it would have been nice if you had put in a translation.... So as I did do latin in school, I guess its up to me.... They mean......

Our native land is the common parent of us all. Cicero

Havn't done the second one yet... I'll have to get my books out ..... the first one is a classic though

Ed

 

[Ed]

The second latin quote means

What are you laughing at? The joke's on you. Horace

Though I think you may have mis quoted it... the origional is
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur - What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke's on you.

Ed

 

[Tadpole]

For those that didn't learn latin in school or that had an education in the classics it would have been nice if you had put in a translation.... So as I did do latin in school, I guess its up to me.... They mean......

Our native land is the common parent of us all. Cicero

Havn't done the second one yet... I'll have to get my books out ..... the first one is a classic though

Ed

sorry, I guess I was showing off,

The second latin quote means

What are you laughing at? The joke's on you. Horace

Though I think you may have mis quoted it... the origional is
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur - What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke's on you.

Ed

To be punctilious, it actually says.
Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story is told of yourself

 

[Ed]

Maybe you should correct my other translation.... I was 12 yrs old the last time I did latin..... I just pulled it from an old quotation book I used at the time, it is not my translation.... I never was any good at latin, I just thought it would at least help those that didn't have a clue. You may want to check the orgional quote of your second one, as I may be wrong on that aswell.

Sorry again everyone for the wrong translation.

Ed

 

[Tadpole]

Maybe you should correct my other translation.... I was 12 yrs old the last time I did latin..... I just pulled it from an old quotation book I used at the time, it is not my translation.... I never was any good at latin, I just thought it would at least help those that didn't have a clue. You may want to check the orgional quote of your second one, as I may be wrong on that aswell.

Sorry again everyone for the wrong translation.

Ed

nope it's ok, I'm just messing

 

[Montivagus]

For those who think they're in a roman forum

parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus

The thread is obviously maturing so it must be time for a bit of John Wayne

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

 

[WhichDoctor]

Old favorite of my headmaster....."if 'it's worth doing, it's worth doing well!"

And if its not worth doing, get Rimmer to do it.

Sorry someone mentioned Red Dwarf earlier it just reminded me .

I've never known wolves to do that. Pixies on the other hand are not to be trusted.

Pixies! Pa! Its elves you got to watch mate


Sorry for butchering this quote, I soar it on this forum somewhere but i cant remember where or who posted it. If it was you feel free to correct me.
--The white man makes a big fire and gets warm from gathering wood, the indian makes a small fire and gets warm from that.--


Oh yes and on the knife sharp blunt debate I can honestly say i have never cut myself with a blunt knife, but I always get cut within 12 hours of sharpening any knife. I always think they are getting there own back for being so badly sharpened .

 

[Montivagus]

Right that's it, I've had to write my own! (See sharp knife blunt knife thread)

"A sharp knike in the hands of a wise man is less dangerous than a blunt knife in the hands of a fool!"

Montivagus

 

[Nightwalker]

Thanks for your support andyn, and your translation work Ed! You probably could have copied that into Google and it would have found it on a webpage somewhere (with the translation).

To remind some users; this is thread is "Bushcraft Quotes"

Im not siding with anyone on the arguement, but nice quote Montivagus! Its on http://bushcraft.acnetwork.co.uk/

 

[Porcupine]

you're only lost if you have a problem with not knowing where you are



walk softly and carry a big stick


and of course : an african or a european swallow?

 

[Neanderthal]

Can't remember where i heard this one but it still makes me laugh.

From a Native Indian up in Canada/The Yukon.

"Back in the Old Days, we paid no taxes and the women did all the work. Then the white man came along and thought he could improve things."