Daniel Boone Quotes
2 November {22 October O.S. 1734 - September 26, 1820
More Daniel Boone Quotes
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
Daniel Boone— As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993) by John Mack Faragher p. 301
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
Daniel Boone— As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993, p. 302) by John Mack Faragher.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone— American pioneer and explorer
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.
Daniel Boone— As quoted in the opening lines of "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon; containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke" in The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke (1784) by John Filson.
I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
Daniel Boone— As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993, p. 65) by John Mack Faragher.
