Quotes for Travelers
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Susan Sontag
I can't think of
anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a
country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
Bill Bryson
One should count each day a separate life.
--Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)
The world is a book, and those who do not travel
read only a page.
--Augustine (354-430)
Not all those who wander are lost!
--J.R.R. Tolkien
"My escapade had given
me, as well as a lot of exotic experiences, the rather primitive pleasure
which you get from facing dangers and overcoming difficulties."
Andre Migot in Tibetan Marches
One look is worth a thousand rumors.
--Wen Hou, Warring States
Period
I love to travel, But hate to arrive
--Albert Einstein
The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must
wait till that other is ready.
--Henry David Thoreau
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
--Spanish Proverb
A journey is like
marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck
A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.
Nigerian Proverb
He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Proverb
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There
is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear
what he has seen in Hong-Kong. Vita Sackville-West (1892:C1962),
British novelist, poet.
"If the traveler expects the highway to be safe and
well graded, he might as well stay home."
Charles Kuralt
Little
by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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
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