Quotes for Travelers in This Crazy Time

Men think women are compulsively late, and that it has something to do with estrogen; but when women get lost they ask for directions. Men, however have testosterone, are inherently lost, and never ask for directions. No wonder they go with the flow -- its a direction they can understand.

Good one sojourn . . . and here's two more:

"All people generalize all the time."
"All women are sex objects and all men are sex fiends."

Completely not travel-related, but my favorite Dorothy Parker quote was her reply when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence. Her response: "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."

One of many favorite Mark Twain remarks: "The man who doesn't read great books has no advantage over the man who can't."

Hope everyone has a fine Valentine's Day!

"The world is a book and those who do not travel, read only a page."
~St. Augustine

This is great!
Mas...mas...mas!

"Darling, what is the difference between a painting done by someone who wants to paint like a child and a child's painting?" -- Jennifer Saunders of ABFAB fame

A truth for all mankind !
The world has 3 kinds of people:

Those who MAKE things happen !
Those who WATCH things happen!
Those who say " what in the hell happened"?

True, regardless of the nationality.

If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.

Will Kommen

"There are two kinds of people in this world...those who separate people into two kinds and those who don't."

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell bad after two days"
-attributed to Ben Franklin

"Being in a leadership position is like flying first class - the food's usually better, seats more comfortable and drinks are free. But everyone arrives at the same place at the same time, and if the plane hits a mountain those sitting up front are the first to go."

If when you are a younger man and you are not a liberal, you do not have a heart. If, however when you are an older man and you are not a conservative, you do not have a braon."

Sir Winston Churchhill

ooops,


"brain"

Okay ... had to put up a few more Mark Twain quotes:

"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

My grandmother had so many great quotes, but this one I love the most.....said just after she asked one of her grandchildren to do/get something for her:

"Why have a dog and do the barking yourself?"

My favorite Mark Twain quote:
America has no native criminal class, except Congress.

No Fear. No Distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter TRULY slide.
~Narrator from the movie Fight Club

Since we are on a Mark Twain kick:

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco".

Good for travelers to SF to remember.

Draw in your petticoats, Ladies. We are going through hell"(unknown)

If you don't have anything nice to say come sit by me. (Alice Longworth Roosevelt)

my favorite is: The difference between an ordinary life and an extroadinary life, is finding extroadinary things in ordinary life.

"I can handle anything but temptation"

Oscar Wilde

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

(Also Oscar Wilde)

"Happy thoughts, darling." (Cary Grant)

Incredible quotes.
You people are great!

Incredible quotes.
You people are great!

"Even the little children in Paris speak French."

attributed to Mark Twain

What is the one about the streets in Venice being flooded?

I hope I can remember this correctly...

Puedo que si o puedo que no, pero lo mas probable es, quien sabe?

uncle_sam, I believe Wilde said "I can resist everything except temptation."

My favorite Wilde quote is his description of fox hunting: "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."

A really bad meal is still much better than a really bad kiss.

It's better to be alone than to wish you were.

I just remembered one from the Q section of the Chi. Trib. The subj. of the article was about winters and what to wear and carry.
It goes something like this, "A used Kleenex is better than none."

"A ship in port is safe...but that is not what ships are made for."

-- Anon (I think...)

"Adventure is as needful to the real life of the spirit as food is to the body."

-- Micheal Drury

I just remembered one from the Q section of the Chi. Trib. The subj. of the article was about winters and what to wear and carry.
It goes something like this, "A used Kleenex is better than none."

A couple of my favorites:
"Once you label me, you negate me."
Kierkegaard

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

Not necessarily travel related but funny.
"If you see a fork in the road, pick it up." Yogi Berra

"Eat a live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."

Lewis Carroll (I think)

If you don't know where you want to go,
then any road will do. the white rabbit said to Alice in Wonderland.


Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.-Emo Phillips


If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation - Jean Kerr

The hottest place in hell is reserved for those when in time of great moral conflict maintain their neutrality. Dante

after having led 14 student tour groups (my students) the following quote has the greatest impact on me----"the difference between a crisis and an adventure is how we react to it"

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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." --- Virgina Woolfe

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." --- Robert Louis Stevenson

Marilyn, you are correct, sorry!

US

texman,

Great quote!

US

I always liked this one by Rick Steves about travel in Europe. I've always tried to travel with this tought.

Paraphrase:

"The bed may not be too short, perhaps you're too tall."

There are differences, so accept them and enjoy!


US

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

Robert Frost

Eagles may fly but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

author unknown

1. fight club - 'you are not a unique and beautiful snowflake' (or something like that)
2. Why worry?
There are two things in life to worry about - whether you are well or whether you are sick.
If you are well, then you have nothing to worry about; but if you are sick, then you only have two things to worry about - whether you will get better or whether you will die.
If you will get better, then you have nothing to worry about; but if you will die, then you have only two things to worry about - whether you will go to heaven or to hell.
If you go to heaven, you will have nothing to worry about, and if you go to hell, you'll be so busy shaking hands with old friends, you won't have time to worry! (I don't know where this is from)
3. Emily Dickinson - If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Said by Bette Davis, not sure which movie, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride!"

Lewis, Bette Davis said it in "All About Eve".

The Venice one was by Robert Benchley, I think. he wrote on a postcard home (ore it might have been a telegram) "Streets filled with water - please advise"

You can't always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes, you get what you need. R. Stones

"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."

Tom Robbins, "Skinny Legs And All"

"Aw, nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded." Yogi Berra

"The only good Christian is Christian Dior."

"When in doubt, choose Krug."

---John G.

I love this thread - thansk to all!

Here are a few from me, not exactly about travel, but attitude:
Consider that a good disposition is invincible.
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of "Lamiae", bugbears to frighten children.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

For the path to salvation is long and the entrance is narrow.
and... All guests should be welcomed as Christ St. Benedict

Whatever appears alluring in this world is but a dream. Petrarca

LEOPARDI "Illusions, however weakened and unmasked by reason, still remain and form the chief part of our life."

"We are what we repeatedly do." - Aristotle

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes" Plato

"Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi

Giordano Bruno (1584): Don't rob a hive of honey in the nude. Don't bite unless you know it's stone or bread. Don't scatter thorns unless you're wearing shoes. On spiderwebs a fly should not intrude. A rat that follows frogs is good as dead.
The southern Italian philosopher who was burned at the stake in 1600 for heresy.
There is a statue of him in Campo di Fiori, Roma.

"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see." Samuel Johnson, recorded by Boswell on Apr.11, 1776
As far as I know he never went.
and also by SJ: A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Enjoy your life, and our great good fortune as travelers! Carolanna

"Moderation is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde

"Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art." - Virginia Woolf

"Humor is the mask of wisdom." -Friedrich Düürrenmatt

I'm trying to remember travel related ones:

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
Sir Winston Churchill

Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Ernest: "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train."

And the lyrics to a song by Sir Noel Coward:

Travel they say improves the mind, an irritating platitude, which frankly, entrenous, is very far from true.

Personally I've yet to find that longitude and latitude can educate those scores of monumental bores, Who travel in groups and herds and troupes of various breeds and sexes, Till the whole world reels to shouts and squeals and the clicking of Roliflexes.

(Chorus)
Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel, when the right people stay back home? what compulsion compels them and who the hell tells them
to drag their bags to Zanzibah instead of staying quietly in Omaha?
The Taj Mahal and the Grand Canal and the sunny French Riviera would be less oppressed if the Middle West would settle for somewhere rather nearer.
Please do not think that I criticize or cavil at a genuine urge to roam.
But why oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay back home?

(And bits from other verses):

What explains this mass mania
To leave Pennsylvania
and clack around like flocks of geese
demanding dry martinis on the Isles of Greece.

In the smallest street where the gourmets meet
They invariably fetch up
And it's hard to make them accept a steak
That isn't served rare and smeared with ketchup.

What peculiar obsessions inspire those processions
Of families from Houston, Tex., with all those cameras around their necks?
They will take a train, or an aeroplane, for an hour on the Costa Brava,
And then they'll see Pompeii
on the only day,
That it's up to its ears in molten lava.

There isn't a rock between Bangkok
and beaches of Hispanola
That does not recoil from suntan oil
and the gurgle of Coca Cola.

Wherever you go, there you are!

A wet bird never flys at night.

Two wrongs don't make a right,but two Wrights made an airplane.

HUH!!!

So many great quotes, what a treat! From today's SF Chronicle travel section:

Mark Twain: "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

Paraphrase...."I could never abstain from drinking. Can you image waking up in the morning and realize this is the best you are going to feel all day"......dean martin

Heard this one recently at a ski resort:
"There's no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing"

In a conversation between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill,
Lady Astor: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."

And as Dorothy Parker said: "There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

Cruelbee - great quote - I love that song.

A few more (some travel-related):

"If you look like your passport photo, you probably need the trip."

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

"Once a year, go somplace you've never been before."

"Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment." - Anthony Robbins

"We must live our dreams, not dream our lives."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"It's only a problem if it worries you." - this was once said to me by a computer technician, and struck me as having universal application

and one of my personal favouites (an ancient Chinese saying)...
"You have to stand a long time on a hillside before a roast duck flies into your mouth." (think about it)

. . .
"the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

“As with most things in life, what you get out of a trip is equal only to what you put into it. Learning about a place is part of the excitement of travel. Without prior preparation your experience is diminished because you miss the significance of what you are seeing and doing.” Barrie Kerper

“A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.” Sa’di Gulistan 1258, The Collected Traveler, Paris

A person who would bring knowledge home with him must take knowledge with him. (or something like that - I think it is (or was ) above the entrance in DC’s Union Station)

I like all of those because they speak to the importance of preparing for a trip - something I think many of you Fodorites will agree on (as oppossed to my family who think I prepare too much.)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower


Tell me what you want and I'll give you what you need. - Doobie Brothers

Moderation in all things, including moderation



Can't remember the source but think Benchley.

And of course, Giordano Bruno was correct and the church wrong (as usual).

From near to far
From here to there
Funny things are everywhere.

- Dr. Suess

from the GREAT fat Cartmen on SOUTH PARK "screw you guys, I'm outa here"

Yes it's a bit raw but I've found myself saying that in my mind after asking frainds if they want too travel here or there and since they don't have the travel bug tend too decline.
"I wish I could go but"

"Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground." Judith Thurman, "The Hand of Distance"
I guess I will feel this way if I am prevented from travel in this crazy time!

"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere"...Frank A. Clark

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"...Jonathan Winters

"Only a fool thinks price and value are the same"...Antonio Machado

"What makes us unique isn't where we end up, but how we choose to get there."

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"...ee cummings

"There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."

And, my personal favorite (sorry for the length):

Desiderata


Go placidly amid the noise and haste
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others,
even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is.
Many persons strive for high ideals
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disappointment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars.
You have a right to be here.
And whether it is clear to you or not,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive him to be,
and whatever your labours and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham and drudgery and broken dreams
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrman, 1927.

On the occasion of Albert Einstein's 50th wedding anniverary, he was asked to explain why the marriage was so successful.
"When we were married we agreed that I would make all the big decisions and my wife would make all the little decisions. Funny thing - in 50 years there have never been any big decisions!!!!!!"

This was actually Einstein's 2nd marriage. The first ended in divorce. Every time he made a mistake his wife would would always belittle him - "Way to go - Einstein."

Sorry for that one.
JoeG

"I believe in sex and death - two experiences that come once in a lifetime." Woody Allen

"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle." Henny Youngman

Life is uncertain ... Eat dessert first!

(don't know who said it first, but it was on a bakery window sign)

"Unfortunately there is so much original sin in us all that we find evil rather attractive." - Anthony Burgess

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

And: (this is crude, I appologize, but being a woman I find it oddly empowering) "Never trust anything that can bleed for 5 days and not die." - Anon.

And: "Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down." - Collis P. Huntington

"I'm dying beyond my means in Paris"

Ocar Wilde

Life is a road with many twists and turns, that leads you back to where you started only much wiser for going along.

Mine

Man, if these quotes don't make people feel good about traveling and taking risks then I don't know what will.
Great job!

When you find yourself in the thick of it,
help yourself to a bit of what is all around you.

-Lennon/McCartney

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

MARK TWAIN

Another Mark Twain
paraphrase....."I once spent a month in France and never did get those idiots to understand their own language"

Some days you're the bug, other days you're the windshield.

THE WISDOM OF WILL ROGERS

1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

3. There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman... neither works.

4. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

5. Always drink upstream from the herd.

6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in
your pocket.

8. There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who
learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for
themselves.

9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
judgment.

10. If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.

12. AND FINALLY After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he
started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The
moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

Sign found in a ladies shop -
"Your husband called and said 'You can buy anything you like'".

When traveling, esp., Europe, my philosophy is;
'If I don't care where I am, I am not lost.'
'If I have no itinerary, I'm exactly where I ought to be.'
'If I can't see it this time, I'll see it next time.'
'If I have no schedule, I won't be late.'
.....and in this 'crazy time'.....
'Expect the unexpected.' Remember,
'Lotsa jerks out there are two beads
short of a Rosary.'

Just saw this one this past weekend

"The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc...
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French. We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
Mark Twain, 1869

Never look back. Someone is always gaining on you.


Satchel Paige

"In this world, you can either be oh-so clever or oh-so pleasant. I've tried clever; I prefer pleasant." - Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey."

Many of these are great - thanks for sharing!

"People who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
VOILA!

This one dawned on me the other day, and if someone said it before me, please attribute to them:

To see the world, one needs to *see* the world.

They say travel broadens the mind...till you can't get your head out of doors.

Elvis Costello

I love 'em! Keep 'em rollin' in!

Finally found my collection of travel quotes. Here are just a few of my favourites:


"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
Maya Angelou

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
Clifton Paul Fadiman

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."
Miriam Beard

"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."
Charles Caleb Colton

"As with most things in life, what you get out of a trip is equal only to what you put into it. Learning about a place is part of the excitement of travel. Without prior preparation your experience is diminished because you miss the significance of what you are seeing and doing."
Barrie Kerper

"Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground."
Judith Thurman, The Hand of Distance

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

"The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know."
Loren Eiseley

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
Samuel Johnson

Kavey, The quotes by Mark Twain and Maya Angelou are my favs.
Thx.

Here are some:
-"It is better to travel well than to arrive." - Buddha

-"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience." - Sir Francis Bacon

-"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. " - William James

-"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. " - Marcel Proust

I see many people here love Oscar Wilde as I do, so why not a few quotes from Oscar on Oscar:

"I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist, somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous I'll be notorious. Or perhaps...I'll rest and do nothing...These things are on the knees of the Gods. What will be, will be." (In Conversation at Oxford)
"Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused I know I have touched the stars." (In Conversation)
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." (In Conversation)



A few (sort of) travel-related quotes:
"...the great superiority of France over England is that in France every bourgeois wants to be an artist, whereas in England every artist wants to be a bourgeois." (In Conversaion)
"The world is a stage but the play is badly cast." ("Lord Arthur Savile's Crimes")
On the Eiffel Tower: "Turn your back to that-you have all Paris before you. Look at it-Paris vanishes." (In Conversation)



And my 2 favorite O. W. quotes:
"I have nothing to declare but my genius." (at customs in America)
"Either this wallpaper goes or I do." (Famous last words - in a room in what is now L'Hotel in Paris)

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

I may be in the gutter but I am looking up at the stars.

These two quotes of Oscar Wilde have sustained me during my 16 trips to the Betty Ford Clinic.

In an above post, EyeSpy attributes a quote to Jennifer Saunders when it was Patsy Stone who stated it. Tsk-Tsk, sweetie darling.

Thanks for the wonderful quotes.
Dutch proverb (sorry for the bad translation): "Dead fish float with the stream, living fish swim against it."

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller

Not so travel related but I like them.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy. _ Benjamin Franklin

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. Dave Barry

When I read the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Henry Youngman

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Earnest Hemingway

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film. Steven Wright

Not mine - just passing on the wisdom

There are 10 types of people in this world... Ones that understand binary and the ones that don't.

Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability

If you're gonna be late, then be late and not just 2 minutes - make it an hour and enjoy your breakfast

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day... Teach a man to fish and he will sit in boat drinking beer. You decide

It is ALWAYS a bad idea to ask a large man how much his mother charge?

You don't have to be mad to work here, in fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that you are not.

If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked

One more: here in the Netherlands, when someone has a perfect life, we say that "he is living like God in France".

"When the ship runs out of ocean
and the vessel runs aground
Land's where we know the boat is found.
Now there's nothing unexpected
About the water giving out
"Land's" not a word we have to shout
But there's something beside the shoreline
Moving across the beachhead
Coming up from the shipwreck
Making as if to say:

Women & men
Bringing with them messages of love
and everywhere they go love will grow
When you see the faces of the women
and the men, you two will know

Women & men have crossed the ocean
They now begin to pour
out from the boat and up the shore
Two by two they enter the jungle
and soon they number more
Three by three as well as four by four
soon the stream of people gets wider
then it becomes a river
river becomes an ocean
carrying ships that bear
Women & Men"
by They Might Be Giants (yup, the SAME BAND who sings the theme song to Malcolm in the Middle)
"Women & Men" from the album Flood (c. 1990)

See, now there's a little bit of travel and geography all in one song, which fits the parameters of this thread. : )

Beatchick,

Another comes to mind from TMBG, for those on that cruise and in credit to those in the transportation industry. And just because it's goofy. -

There's a picture opposite me
of my primitive ancestry
which stood on rocky shores
and kept the beaches shipwreck free.
Though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
after killing Jason off
and countless screaming Argonauts

The absence of fear being unknown to him, he was unable to detect it's presence. John Knowles " A Seperate Peace"

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.

Anybody know who said it?

My favorite quote:

Success
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. this is to succeed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Time Wounds All Heels".

And one more:

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Albert Einstein

I like the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats.
I will arise and go now
And go to Innisfree.
And a small cabin build there
Of clay and wattles made.
Nine bean rows will I have there,
A hive for the honeybee
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

The poet is buried at Drumcliffe near this little island on Lough Gill in County Sligo in the north-west of Ireland.
Also buried in area is the author of this piece,Oliver St John Gogarty, whose epithaph this is:

Our friends go with us as we go
Down the long path where beauty wends.
Where all we love foregather so
Why should we fear to join our friends.

Many mention quotes from Wilde.I was in Dublin looking at Oscar Wilde`s statue once and a man stopped to look.I told him Wilde had lived in the house across the street.He asked me did he still live there.Oscar Wilde lived from 1854 to 1900.

"There are two things in this world that I cannot handle....People who are intolerant of other's cultures....and the Dutch." -Michael Caine in Austin Powers, Goldmember

I have to apologize for the source of this quote, but it just makes me laugh.

As kids my brothers and I would play this silly game about our town as it was so small. Here goes, See that town we're coming too? then my other brother would say, you mean the one we're in? then I would say, no the one we just went through. These post are a good cheer up! Thank you. Alice

A couple of my favorites:

Natures first green is gold
Her Hardest hue to hold
Her early leafs a flower
But only so an hour
The leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down today
Nothing gold can stay

Robert Frost

and...

"I would never want any woman who would have me for a boyfriend."

Woody Allen

"it's good to be a pessimist: every time you're either proven right or pleasantly surprised"

"too bad all these people who know how to run a country are too busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair"

"a positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort"

Kavey, thank you for posting this link in another thread!

Dr Rumack:
"The life of everyone on board depends on one thing: Finding someone on board who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner."

The church is near, but the roads are icey. The tavern is far, but I'll walk carefully.

There are two kinds of people: the 'givers' and the 'takers'. The 'takers' may eat better but the 'givers' sleep better.
Danny Thomas

Daily Guide To Happiness

Pray: It is the greatest power on earth

Love: It is a God given privilege

Read: It is the fountain of wisdom

Think: It is the source of power

Be Friendly: It is the road to happiness

Give: It is too short of a day to be selfish

Play: It is the secret of prepetual youth

Laugh: It is the music of the soul

Work: It is the price of success

Save: It is the secret of security

>Message: Life is uncertain ... Eat dessert first!

I've seen this in a book called "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long", by Robert Heinlein. It was a book of quotes, supposedly by the main character of many of his scifi books, Lazarus Long.

Some others by him (the character lives about the year 4000AD):

I suspect that our race's tragedy has been played endless times. It may be that an intelligent race has to expand right up to its disaster point to achieve what is needed to break out of its planet and reach for the stars. It may always -- or almost always -- be a photo finish, with the outcome uncertain to the last moment. Just as it is with us. It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail...

Take life in big bites! Moderation is for the monks.

In a society in which it is a mortal offense to be different from your neighbors your only escape is never to let them find out.

A rational anarchist believes that concepts, such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame.. as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and _nowhere_ else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world.. aware that his efforts will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.

What are the marks of a sick culture? It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the county and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

And, finally, (I can't believe noone has yet posted this one!), I believe it was Samuel Johnson: "The man who is tired of London is tired of live"

I never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to read on the train.
~Oscar Wilde

Hands down best travel advice / quote:

Never pass up the chance to go to the bathroom.
Henry Kissinger (I think)

I lovvvvvvvvvvvve this website.
surfingmomma

Hey, Hightide, I thought I said that!!

Not travel related, but my favorite and will be my epitaph...

"He saw himself as a crystal pool of clarity, and viewed his life as a troubled glass of misunderstood virtue"
Steinbeck

Beatchick: Well, if you're a parent, you prolly said it enough times it very well could have been your own!!!

Between that little nugget and a few choice others I couldn't have raised my kids! ('sit up straight'; 'don't talk with your mouth full'; 'did I hear a please with that request?'; 'remember who you are and what you are'; 'a bath is not an incarnation of the devil'; 'please take your foot off your sisters throat'; etc.) hehe

LOL ~ "'please take your foot off your sisters throat'"
I reckon, hightide, that un's my favorite!!

There's gotta be a way! (?)

'"Be prepared!" Girl guide motto

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (?)

Don't sweat the small stuff. (?)

Most challenges in life are not in our control. It's how we respond that decides our worth. (?)

If it isn't illegal, immoral or life threatening, let them learn from the consequences. (Barbara Coloroso)

A life unexamined is a life not lived. (?)

Do it now. Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery. All we have is now. (?)

From those who have much, much is expected. (?)

The ? means I know that I learned these from someone else, but can't cite the source. And I apologise for the paraphrasing.

Don't pet the sweaty stuff!
Author unknown (for good reason) lol

My favorite quote of all time:

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow - what a ride".

I'm not sure who said it... Anyone?

Renee,
If I'm not mistaken, that's part of a classic George Carlin quote:
"Don't sweat the petty stuff and don't pet the sweaty stuff."

"An active mind cannot exists in an inactive body."-Gen. George Patton

(Yes, I know the quote is for physical health, but oh well!)

Amelia Earhart

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself"

"After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying."

“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”

"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."

"Not much more than a month ago I was on the other shore of the Pacific, looking westward. This evening, I looked eastward over the Pacific. In those fast-moving days which have intervened, the whole width of the world has passed behind us -except this broad ocean. I shall be glad when we have the hazards of its navigation behind us."
-- Amelia Earhart, several days before she left for Howland Island and disappeared

Courtesy of Eric Idle



Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
n this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,

'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Cheers all
Steve

A Spanish saying:

"It is wonderful to do nothing - and to rest afterwards."

Friends are those, who when you make an
ass of yourself, don't think it's a permanent condition.

TRUE Friends are God's apology for relatives.

<<On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.>>

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry