Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Quote: Francis Bacon ...
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
-- from Essays: Of Travel, 1597
-- from Essays: Of Travel, 1597
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Quote: William Hazlitt ...
"I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home."
-- from "On Going On A Journey," 1822
-- from "On Going On A Journey," 1822
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Quote: Charles Dudley Warner ...
"There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it, when the traveler is settled simply as to his destination, and commits himself to his unknown fate and all the anticipations of adventure before him."
-- from Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing, 1874
-- from Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing, 1874
Monday, December 21, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Quote: Bertrand Russell ...
"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me."
-- from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, volume 1, 1967
-- from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, volume 1, 1967
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Quote: Anna Louise Strong ...
I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
-- from I Change Worlds: the Remaking of an American, 1935
-- from I Change Worlds: the Remaking of an American, 1935
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Quote: Lin Yutang ...
"A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler is one who does not know where he came from."
-- from The Importance of Living, 1937
-- from The Importance of Living, 1937
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Quote: Theophile Gautier ..
"The pleasure of traveling consists in the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion, when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the ease and comfort which he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventures. Everything is so well arranged, so admirably combined, so plainly labeled, that chance is an utter impossibility."
-- from Voyage en Espagne (Wanderings in Spain), 1843
-- from Voyage en Espagne (Wanderings in Spain), 1843
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Quote: Ambrose Bierce ...
PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously.
-- from The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
-- from The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Quote: Alain de Botton ...
"The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find a home in the ordinary world."
-- from The Art of Travel, 2002
-- from The Art of Travel, 2002
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Quote: e.e. cummings ...
--- listen: there's a hell-- from "pity this monster manunkind," 1944
of a good universe next door; let's go
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Quote: Paul Theroux ...
"It is fatal to know too much at the outset: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot."
-- from "Discovering Dingle," first published in Travel & Leisure, 1976
-- from "Discovering Dingle," first published in Travel & Leisure, 1976
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Quote: Robert Service ...
There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
-- from "The Men That Don't Fit In," published in Songs of a Sourdough, 1907
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
-- from "The Men That Don't Fit In," published in Songs of a Sourdough, 1907
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Quote: Storm Jameson ...
"I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible."
-- from Journey from the North, volume 1, 1969
-- from Journey from the North, volume 1, 1969
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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