Any neat travel quotes?
Mar 3rd, 2016, 12:58 AM
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Lady Bracknell: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
I guess that can go for luggage as well.>>
to digress further, my favourite lines from that play are these:
"Cecily: Do you suggest, Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement? How dare you? This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different."
to return to the topic, my two both come from phrase books, the first apocryphal the second real:
"my postilion has been hit by lightening"
and from a real but ancient Berlitz spanish phrase book:
"please can you tell me where I may buy some chewing tobacco".
I guess that can go for luggage as well.>>
to digress further, my favourite lines from that play are these:
"Cecily: Do you suggest, Miss Fairfax, that I entrapped Ernest into an engagement? How dare you? This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different."
to return to the topic, my two both come from phrase books, the first apocryphal the second real:
"my postilion has been hit by lightening"
and from a real but ancient Berlitz spanish phrase book:
"please can you tell me where I may buy some chewing tobacco".
Mar 3rd, 2016, 08:26 AM
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The last part of Tennyson's "Ulysses" always touches me.
Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Mar 3rd, 2016, 11:16 PM
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“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
"When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
"In the end what we regret most are the chances we never took" Frazier Crane (with apologies to Mark Twain)
"When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
"In the end what we regret most are the chances we never took" Frazier Crane (with apologies to Mark Twain)
Mar 4th, 2016, 12:28 AM
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"Don't you love the smell of grease about the engine of a Channel steamer? Isn't there a lot of hope in it?" - Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
“Journeys end in lovers meeting.” – William Shakespeare
"Avrai tu l'universo, resta l'Italia a me." -- Giuseppe Verdi, Attila
“Journeys end in lovers meeting.” – William Shakespeare
"Avrai tu l'universo, resta l'Italia a me." -- Giuseppe Verdi, Attila
Mar 4th, 2016, 05:12 AM
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
