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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)