--- title: "1 Arcadia Quotes By Robert W. Service" description: "1 Arcadia quotes by Robert W. Service. Plus more from Robert W. Service and more Arcadia sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/303/robert-w-service-17575_alas_alas-the-road-to-anywhere-is-pitfalled-w_1091295.jpg" --- > [Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master, And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/alas-the-road-to-anywhere-is-pitfalled-with-disaster-there-s-hunger/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/303/robert-w-service-17575_alas_alas-the-road-to-anywhere-is-pitfalled-w_1091295.jpg) ## Other authors on Arcadia - [Steven Magee 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/steven-magee/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tom-stoppard-91582.jpg) Tom Stoppard 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/tom-stoppard/) - [Jenn Bennett 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/jenn-bennett/) ## More by Robert W. Service > [“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed. "Please make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/i-keep-collecting-books-i-know-i-ll-never-never-read-my-wife-and/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [“The Call of the Wild They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching, They have soaked you in convention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/the-call-of-the-wild-they-have-cradled-you-in-custom-they-have-primed/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/just-draw-on-your-grit-it-s-so-easy-to-quit-it-s-the-keeping-your/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/when-children-s-children-shall-talk-of-war-as-a-madness-that-may-not/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/the-happy-man-is-he-who-knows-his-limitations-yet-bows-to-no-false/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/this-is-the-law-of-the-yukon-that-only-the-strong-shall-thrive-that/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/now-a-promise-made-is-a-debt-unpaid-and-the-trail-has-its-own-stern/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/it-s-easy-to-fight-when-everything-s-right-and-you-re-mad-with-the/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/it-s-the-steady-quiet-plodding-ones-who-win-in-the-lifelong-race/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/alas-the-road-to-anywhere-is-pitfalled-with-disaster-there-s-hunger/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/then-you-ve-a-hunch-what-the-music-meant-hunger-and-night-and-the/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/a-half-dead-thing-in-a-stark-dead-world-clean-mad-for-the-muck-called/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [“There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/there-are-strange-things-done-in-the-midnight-sun-by-the-men-who-moil/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [“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 much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/there-s-gold-and-it-s-haunting-and-haunting-it-s-luring-me-on-as-of/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) > [“ The Quitter When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-w-service/the-quitter-when-you-re-lost-in-the-wild-and-you-re-scared-as-a-child/) [Robert W. Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-w-service/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arcadia/robert-w-service/#itemlist", "name": "1 Arcadia Quotes By Robert W. 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