wisdomOver the next few weeks I’ll be sharing ‘Quotes from Forrest’.  These are quotes given to me by Forrest Fenn that he personally likes.   Last year we did something similar under a heading of Friday’s Fenn Favorite on my Facebook page.  I later included them all here on the site, under the same heading,  for all to see.  I will do the same with these.  After each week’s post on my Facebook page, I’ll update this page to include his new quote. (For those on my Facebook page, it will be under Tuesday’s Treasure)

Friday’s Fenn Favorite was inspired from a collection of quotes I gathered from Forrest’s books and posted under Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Quotes.  I love Proverbs 20:15 which states, “Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel”, and so I wanted to create a collection of Forrest’s ‘rare jewels’.  To me, they are part of his treasure.

Besides loving quotes myself, I feel the following quotes might offer a unique perspective into what Forrest likes and how he thinks. They may just help provide a lead for understanding his Poem and finding his hidden million dollar treasure!  And if not, no matter.  It will be fun! 🙂

 

Quotes from Forrest

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Posted January 27, 2015:
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.” ~ Christopher Hampton

 

Posted February 3rd, 2015:
“When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.” ~ Norm Crosby

 

Posted February 10th, 2015:
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much” ~ Oscar Wilde

 

Posted February 17th, 2015:
‘The secret to staying young is live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.’ ~ anonymous

 

30 Comments

    2. That is a great one E*. Funny. If anyone works on the Whistle Pig Hunt, I feel that quote is hinted at in the Chapter of Grandfather’s Office….:)… which, groundhog’s day is coming up…I should give that book another read. I suppose it is 12 years that hunt has been going on….!! I love it still.

      Jenny Kile

        1. Thanks E*. I had to laugh…but at the end of that article, and although I study a different type of ‘Whistle Pig’; a literary one…..they say those who study marmots/whistle pigs would be considered a ‘Marmoteer’. I suppose I should add that to my bio. 🙂

          Jenny Kile

    2. Excellent, E*! All for One…and One for All! I absolutely loved the Roosevelt quote you posted as well. Victory is infinitely sweeter and greatly treasured only after experiencing the heart-breaking, bitterness of defeat. Only then will the answer come to the question asked by the bloody and sweaty and teary-eyed. …Why?

      Thanks, again, Jenny. The gems found here are worth the trip every single time. 🙂

      JC1117

  7. Jenny – I just read Dal’s really intriguing post about the new book called, “The Chroma”:

    http://dalneitzel.com/2015/01/28/chroma/#comment-72887

    And he writes this:

    “How can I possibly find his treasure if I don’t know the literary likes and dislikes of the guy who hid it???”

    As I just finished a great book about the American West,…called, “Blood and Thunder”,…I wondered again about what books Forrest might recommend. Would a “What is Forrest Fenn Reading?”,…and maybe a sharing of books read by searchers,…who have been inspired by, “The Thrill of the Chase”,…be a good topic of discussion here on your blog?

    E*

          1. How did you manage that, Jdiggins? Are you invisible to radar, or what? 🙂 I wonder sometimes if I am. I had a “free pass” to Annapolis many moons ago. An Admiral told my dad he could get any of his sons in if we were interested. I stopped in to a recruiter’s office to ask some questions and talk to a Navy person at “ground level”. Nobody told me to do that. I just thought it would be a good idea. While I was there the officer tried to “find me” in the records…claiming that all of my test scores should be there. Long story short I did not exist. LOL! He found the people on either side of me…alphabetically…in my high school, but I was not there. He said that was very interesting.

            I found it MORE interesting that as we talked for 15 minutes or so he kept leaning toward me and spitting his tobacco juice in a garbage can right next to me. …and that sums up my brief stint in the Navy. 🙂 Sorry. I just got distracted, too.

            JC1117

    1. Jdiggins, surely you can find SOMETHING likeable if you look hard enough. It’s not ALL bad, is it? “Every cloud has a silver lining”…they say.

      Or is it…”Every silver lining that frames a cloud has a dark, foreboding thunderhead in the middle with enough potential energy to kill you multiple times with bolts of lightning and thunder that rolls through the hills like laughter”?

      …I forget. 🙂

      JC1117

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