https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:51:24 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/boone-daniel/995/ https://wist.info/boone-daniel/995/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=995 I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

Daniel Boone (c.1734-1820) American pioneer
(Attributed)

Variants:

• "I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." (J. Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993))
• "I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." (Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State (The WPA Guide to Missouri) (1941)

]]> https://wist.info/boone-daniel/995/feed/ 0 995 https://wist.info/boone-daniel/19676/ https://wist.info/boone-daniel/19676/#respond Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:52:07 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=19676 I often observed to my brother, You see now how little nature requires to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; And I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briars and thorns.

Daniel Boone (c.1734-1820) American pioneer
(Attributed)

In "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon; containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke" in John Filson, The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke (1784). ]]> https://wist.info/boone-daniel/19676/feed/ 0 19676