FAMOUS TRAVELLER QUOTES
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. -Mark
Twain
Voyaging is victory. -Arab Proverb
The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist. -Paul Richard, American Writer
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I
intended to be." - Douglas Adams
"The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun.
Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same
again after your passport has been stamped." - Graham Greene
"Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's aware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over there'll be time enough to sleep." - Alfred
E. Housman,
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." - Victor Hugo
"What I am doing today?
Nothing! And I am gonna do it all day" John C. (England)
"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol
of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely
philosophically, but almost with pleasure." - Aldous Huxley
"I aint gonna work on Maggies Farm no more" Bob
Dylan
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a
second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out
of you." - William James
"Man only dies when he stops dreaming" Aboriginal proverb
"Work, mate. Work is for Mugs" Atty Brennan (Liverpool)
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may
learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy
it." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways
to go. But no matter, the road is life." - Jack Kerouac
"If I was up somewhere warm, in Queensland say. And, I was chatting to a couple of
Swedish girls, picking apples. Blondes, yeah tall ones. Jaysus, Im telling you now,1
would be the happiest man in the world" Niall McCready (Donegal)
"But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as
I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me
are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of
everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn,
burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and
in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
- Jack Kerouac, On The Road
"Imagine"
- John Lennon
"Come 3.30 on Friday You wont see me for dust, mate. Im going Bush,
Mate. Fishing, hunting, riding the quads, sleeping under the stars, where no **** can
bother me" B. Gauci Rooty Hill
"... the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose
himself." - William Least Heat Moon (William Trogdon)
"He who does not travel does not know the value of men." - Moorish
Proverb
"Come and say Gday" Paul Hogan
"Keep it country"- The Stoned Crow
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign." -
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard
On that stone again. Its been so long since I been stoned again
Going to be stoned in places where I never seen again.
Im on that stone again Kiwi George
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware." -
Martin Buber
"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by
mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the
remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm
my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has
worked... In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I
fear the disease is incurable." - John Steinbeck
"The righteous truth is: There aint nothing worse than some fool, lying on some
Third World beach, in spandex psychedelic trousers, smoking damn dope! Pretending he
getting conscience expansion.I want conscience expansion I go to my local tabernacle, and
sing. I Aint goin to Goa." - Alabama 3
"Do on to others as you would have them do on to you". - J.C.
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