The original one that I generally use is: Here's to flat lakes and portages.
I keep a list of one-liner words of wisdom in my PC's homepage (all plagarized, of course), and here's an extraction related (perhaps vaguely) to canoeing. I'm worried that this website might run all of these lines together. I'll double space & hope for the best...
"Anyone who has known Algonquin Park will be disappointed when they get to Heaven" -- Ralph Bice.
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” ― Albert Einstein
"Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go Canoeing" - Henry David Thoreau
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. -Japanese Proverb
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs - proverb
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
We are what we celebrate - entrepreneur and inventor Dean Kamen
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less. - Ken Blanchard
Anyone can make love in a canoe, it's a Canadian who knows enough to take out the centre thwart. - Philip Chester
Take everyrhing as it comes; the wave passes,, deal with the next one -Tom Thomson, 1877 - 1917
Not all those who wander are lost - j.r.r. tolkien
A mans gotta do, what a man's gotta do. -John Steinbeck, in Grapes of Wrath
Our lives… need the relief of where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. — Henry David Thoreau
-Here's to flat lakes and portages,
Doug Elliott
