Traveller Quotes - Page 9

• We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Volcanoes, Eggs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

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• The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

  George Saunders

  Data, Troops, Doe

  "Just who is this Magna Carta fellow?" by George Saunders, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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• Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Fall, Passion, Son

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• All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Travel, Home, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.5236, e-artnow

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• We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Romantic, Travel, Dull

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Turkish Embassy Letters”, p.115, Ravenio Books

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• European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.88, Routledge

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• All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Games, Hardship, Barren

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Im a pretty organised traveller.

  Penny Lancaster

  Organised

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• Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This is a novel [Candid] which has narratives within narratives, such as when Cunégonde recounts her story.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Play, Venice, Narrative

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

  Paracelsus

  Doctors, Wife, Lessons

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• I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eight, Boston, Years

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Perfect, Water, Path

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• To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth;
  To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance;
  To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners;
  To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer.
  Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie;
  Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Ignorance, Rainbow

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

  William Bartram

  Travel, Journey, May

  William Bartram (1792). “Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates”, p.8

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• The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lakes, Passing By, House

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• A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Journey, Als, Way

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• Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Religion, Towers

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• The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Lonely, Unseen, May

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

  James Harrington

  Men, May, Firsts

  1656 The Commonwealth of Oceana.

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• A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Doe, Rust, Ends

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Workaholic, Bits

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• This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.

  Dervla Murphy

  Moving, Epic, Past

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.39, The Overlook Press

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• A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

  Juvenal

  Beggar

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• Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

  Tertullian

  Prayer, Fall, Home

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