Robert W. Service

Quotes

• “There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting; It’s luring me on as of old; Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting So muc...”
• “There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tale...”
• “Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wantingSo much as just finding the gold.It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,It...”
• “A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;While high overhead, green, yellow and red,...”
• “It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to ...”
• “It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to q...”
• “I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins --The other kind do...”
• “Of Books and Scribes there are no end:This Plague--and who can doubt it?Dismays me so, I've sadly pennedAnother book abo...”
• “This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit sur...”
• “Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”
• “The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.”
• “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”
• “Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.”
• “The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire”
• “Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.”
• “A promise made is a debt unpaid.”