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.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Travel Quotes , Disappointment Quotes

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

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Tags : Al Stewart Quotes , Travel Quotes , Land Quotes

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Travel Quotes , Years Quotes

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Travel Quotes , Water Quotes

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Travel Quotes , Men Quotes

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

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Tags : A. R. Ammons Quotes , Travel Quotes , Going Away Quotes

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Travel Quotes , Stars Quotes

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Travel Quotes , Home Quotes

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

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

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Travel Quotes , Leaves Of Grass Quotes

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Funny Quotes , Travel Quotes

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Travel Quotes , Mind Quotes

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Country Quotes , Travel Quotes

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Travel Quotes , Adventure Quotes

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Travel Quotes , Moving Quotes

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Travel Quotes , Journey Quotes

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Travel Quotes , Artist Quotes

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Travel Quotes , Business Quotes

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

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Travel Quotes , Journey Quotes

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

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Travel Quotes , Fun Quotes