Great Quotes About Travel
Sep 20th, 2003, 11:37 AM
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Henry David Thoreau - Walden, 1854
"It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar."
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love,1945
"Frogs...are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends."
"It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar."
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love,1945
"Frogs...are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends."
Sep 20th, 2003, 12:28 PM
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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel?s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sep 20th, 2003, 04:08 PM
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"A good traveler never takes off with a blank mind, but with a preformed view, colored by a mass of knowledge. And accepts that his certainties and prejudices will be shaken........A long voyage continues to change me, affect me, as a great book does."
French writer/philosopher, Bernard-Henri-Lévy
French writer/philosopher, Bernard-Henri-Lévy
Sep 20th, 2003, 07:05 PM
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"The joy I felt when, at long last, looking from a hilltop an hour's ride away, I could see Prague, escapes description." Richard Wagner
"If the world were a crown, Prague would be her prettiest gem." Goethe
"Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass." Hans Christian Andersen
"I know a song of Africa. . .does Africa know a song of me?" Isak Dinesen
"All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If the world were a crown, Prague would be her prettiest gem." Goethe
"Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass." Hans Christian Andersen
"I know a song of Africa. . .does Africa know a song of me?" Isak Dinesen
"All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sep 21st, 2003, 03:37 AM
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Still my favorite:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."
-- Mark Twain
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."
-- Mark Twain
Sep 21st, 2003, 07:13 AM
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"... He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to...'"
- Frodo Baggins, thanks to JRR Tolkein
- Frodo Baggins, thanks to JRR Tolkein
Sep 21st, 2003, 01:25 PM
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I recommend to all of you who lust for travel a book that friends gave us before our last trip:
Tje Quotable Traveler, edited by Deborah McHugh and published by The Lyons Press. It's over 200 pages of wonderful quotes from a broad, broad spectrum of people--form Martin Amis to Dave Barry, Groucho Marx to D.H. Lawrence, Michael Palin to Margaret Mead, Jacqueline Kennedy to J.R.R. Tolkien!
My favorite: "Travel spoils you for regular life" by writer Bill Barich.
Tje Quotable Traveler, edited by Deborah McHugh and published by The Lyons Press. It's over 200 pages of wonderful quotes from a broad, broad spectrum of people--form Martin Amis to Dave Barry, Groucho Marx to D.H. Lawrence, Michael Palin to Margaret Mead, Jacqueline Kennedy to J.R.R. Tolkien!
My favorite: "Travel spoils you for regular life" by writer Bill Barich.
Nov 30th, 2003, 06:42 PM
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Mark Twain
For me, the "road less travelled" has not always been from choice but from necessity. Regardless, these experiences have usually provided the best memories, unexpected food, laughter, etc. I guess Mr. Twain knew a thing or two...
Mark Twain
For me, the "road less travelled" has not always been from choice but from necessity. Regardless, these experiences have usually provided the best memories, unexpected food, laughter, etc. I guess Mr. Twain knew a thing or two...
