Roads And Journeys Quotes

• The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

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• The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

  Don Williams

  Journey, Two, Twists

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• The road goes ever on and on

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Books And Movies, Errands, Fellowship

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Travel, Carpe Diem

  Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16

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• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Travel, Memorable

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.481, Delphi Classics

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• There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Travel, Journey

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Travel, Adventure, Soul Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1983). “Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches”

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• Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Travel, Fun

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• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Sports, Hope

  Virginibus Puerisque "El Dorado" (1881)

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• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

  Pat Conroy

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Hate, Memorable

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• 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

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Past

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• People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media

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• Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Travel, Journey

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Joy

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• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Glasses, Ego

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

  Graham Lowe

  Sports, Travel, Team

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• The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Trying

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