Great Quotes About Travel
Apr 19th, 2006, 08:10 AM
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"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." John Steinbeck.
Which is close enough to my favorite non-travel quote (by George Carlin, I think): "If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem."
Thanks, JandaO for topping this thread.
Which is close enough to my favorite non-travel quote (by George Carlin, I think): "If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem."
Thanks, JandaO for topping this thread.
Jul 14th, 2009, 03:22 PM
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Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration. ~Dave Barry
Jul 14th, 2009, 10:29 PM
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Alice asked the Chesire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, "What road do I take?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know", Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?"
The cat asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know", Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it really doesn't matter, does it?"
Jul 15th, 2009, 01:12 AM
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Just a few from the many in Tony Perrottet's informative and entertaining
<i>Route 66AD; On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists</i> -
"Jupiter, protect me from your guides at Olympia, and you, Athena, from yours at Athens!" - Varro
"Many of us endure all sorts of hardships to behold some remote sight. For Nature made us born admirers; her jewels would be lost without an audience." - Seneca
"Even the Gods don't spend all their time in Heaven. They take journeys to Aethiopia, to Olympia, to Mount Athos..." - the pagan prophet Apollonius of Tyana
"If you're clean and neat, then here's a house ready and waiting for you. If you're dirty - well, I'm ashamed to say it, but you're welcome too." - plaque from excavated Roman inn in Spain
<i>Route 66AD; On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists</i> -
"Jupiter, protect me from your guides at Olympia, and you, Athena, from yours at Athens!" - Varro
"Many of us endure all sorts of hardships to behold some remote sight. For Nature made us born admirers; her jewels would be lost without an audience." - Seneca
"Even the Gods don't spend all their time in Heaven. They take journeys to Aethiopia, to Olympia, to Mount Athos..." - the pagan prophet Apollonius of Tyana
"If you're clean and neat, then here's a house ready and waiting for you. If you're dirty - well, I'm ashamed to say it, but you're welcome too." - plaque from excavated Roman inn in Spain
Jul 15th, 2009, 07:57 AM
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From Moab to Monemvasia,
and all points in between,
In crowded cities, lonely trails and
humble villages set in green,
I hear the echoes of my own sweet home
in every place I've been.
And I catch a glimpse of my truer self
in every stranger's face I've seen.
and all points in between,
In crowded cities, lonely trails and
humble villages set in green,
I hear the echoes of my own sweet home
in every place I've been.
And I catch a glimpse of my truer self
in every stranger's face I've seen.
Jul 15th, 2009, 04:25 PM
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And... "You know, you speak English really well!" - North American native English speaker to Australian native English speaker on a train in northern Sweden.
[He's still learning, but at least he can spell 'accommodation' and doesn't routinely insert an apostrophe in the possessive 'its', even if he drops the occasional letter typing.]
[He's still learning, but at least he can spell 'accommodation' and doesn't routinely insert an apostrophe in the possessive 'its', even if he drops the occasional letter typing.]
Jul 15th, 2009, 07:28 PM
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I coined this on this forum when I was still in 70's...now that I'm 80, with every ache and pain it seems to take on more meaning. At times, I wish I never came up with it...but it ain't a bad motto for all of us bitten by the peripatetic travel bug:
<b>"travel 'til you unravel !"</b>
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...and as the Deadheads said..<i>"Keep on truckin'"</i>
<b>"travel 'til you unravel !"</b>
stu tower
...and as the Deadheads said..<i>"Keep on truckin'"</i>
