Oscar Wilde Quotes, Travel Quotes, Disappointment Quotes

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Travel Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Travel Quotes , Giving Quotes

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Travel Quotes , Typical Quotes

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Hovhaness Quotes , Nature Quotes , Travel Quotes

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Dog Quotes , Travel Quotes

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Travel Quotes , Swim Quotes

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Travel Quotes , America Quotes

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Travel Quotes , Sake Quotes

The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Carolla Quotes , Travel Quotes , Knowing Quotes

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Travel Quotes , Adventure Quotes

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Travel Quotes , Women Quotes

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Travel Quotes , Home Quotes

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Travel Quotes , Food Quotes

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Travel Quotes , Greatness Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Travel Quotes , Glasses Quotes

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Travel Quotes , Writing Quotes

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Travel Quotes , Horse Quotes

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Travel Quotes , Journey Quotes

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Travel Quotes

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Travel Quotes , Land Quotes