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Okay, I notice that on many posts (mine included) we will use quotes from writers etc... to illustrate the point. Or then put a travel quote in our signature. Well then, for a bit of fun here amongst the serious travel gurus...

What is your favorite travel quote?

Here are a couple of mine to get the thread moving...

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going."
- Paul Theroux

"I never hear the word 'escape'
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation,
A flying attitude!"
-Emily Dickinson

My favourite:

"People don't take trips...trips take people." - John Steinbeck

'You might be in the river, but to go anywhere you have to let go of the bank'
-Jay Bishoff-

'The adventure starts where the plan stops'
- Me, although I'm sure this has been stated by other people in other ways -

'When in Rome f**k me Roman'
- someone here in the office -

Nick

[This message was edited by Nick on 28 August 2002 at 16:54.]

"It is the journey that enlightens--not the destination..." ~ Kwai Chang Caine

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." ~ Leonardo Di Vinci

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by those you have. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

"The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet."
- J.R.R Tolkien

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Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from [the gods].

"There's no solace on Earth for us
for such as we
who search for a hidden city
we shall never see
Only the road and the wind and the rain
and watchfires under stars,
the sleep and the road, again."

-Unknown, taken from "Hitchhiker's Guide To Europe"

"Do one thing everyday that scares you"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, 'Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.'"
- Terry Pratchett

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

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.

**Blessed are the flexible, for they shall never be bent out of shape**

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
--Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps more of a 'writing' quote than a 'traveling' quote... but I find I've etched it into the first page of every travel journal I've kept.

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here are some of my favourites

“For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted Time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze."
Richard Bode, First you have to row a little boat

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. "
Theodore Roosevelt

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."
- Rumi

"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. Because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

"when the ocean crashes...do not let me hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!"
-Rumi

ummmmm, where am I? oh yeah, , hehe, here.
what time is it?? oh yeah, , hehe, Now.

Fill your heart with simple joy Traveller.
Scatter freely along the road
The treasure you gather as you go.
Rabrindranath Tagore.

# You will know more about a road by travelling it,
than by consulting all the maps in the world.

How about Oscar Wilde's comment while going through customs in New York:

"I have nothing to declare but my genius"

"You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic." (Thomas Pynchon)

"... and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." (T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding")

"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which i cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place..." (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

I keep a notebook full of little travel quotes and places I want to go. When I see something interesting, or worth remembering, I pull it out and write it down. Same thing with my palm pilot... it's full of travel quotes.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time

Thomas Sterne Eliot

Stefano
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