The first to go beyond where the road ends goes alone.
From Leaving No Stone Unthrown, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The gravel road past the Hadley place stops at a culvert and then there is nothing but burdock and a deer trail going up. I followed a man up it this morning, or rather I flew ahead and waited, which is cheating. He stood at the culvert a long while and looked back down the road twice before he went on. For years I thought the hard part was the walking. It is not; the first to go beyond where the road ends goes alone, and the going is the easy half of it. Nobody came up behind him. I did not see where he ended up, because the wind turned and I went where the wind went.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- Beware the finger that points the way.
- I’m an optimist because I believe the pessimists are right, but not for much longer.
- There are as many reasons to smile as directions to look.
- Snap into it!
- The problem with positive thinking is that somebody else defines positive.
- It is easier to judge a man than to know him.