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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