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Hope & Chance Quotes |
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll wind up somewhere else.
—Yogi Berra, “Yogi-isms,” yogiberra.com
—Yogi Berra, “Yogi-isms,” yogiberra.com
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run
away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and
run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Culture,”The Conduct of Life, 1860
away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and
run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Culture,”The Conduct of Life, 1860
Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the
indifference of places. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” Essays:
First Series, 1841
indifference of places. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” Essays:
First Series, 1841
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.
—George Bernard Shaw, letter (1899), Collected Letters, 1972
condition of healthy life except fresh air …. It is a guzzling, lounging,
gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
—George Bernard Shaw, letter (1899), Collected Letters, 1972
The fabric of my faithful love / No power shall dim or ravel / Whilst
I stay here—but oh, my dear, / If I should ever travel! —Edna St.
Vincent Millay, “To the Not Impossible Him,”A Few Figs from Thistles,
1920
I stay here—but oh, my dear, / If I should ever travel! —Edna St.
Vincent Millay, “To the Not Impossible Him,”A Few Figs from Thistles,
1920
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write
standing up. —Ernest Hemingway, letter (1950), Selected Letters, Carlos
Baker, ed., 1981
standing up. —Ernest Hemingway, letter (1950), Selected Letters, Carlos
Baker, ed., 1981
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they
are wonderful things for other people to go on. —Jean Kerr, The Snake
Has All the Lines, 1958
are wonderful things for other people to go on. —Jean Kerr, The Snake
Has All the Lines, 1958
I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide,
forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath,
and then says to myself, “All right, then, I’ll
GO to hell.”
—Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,1885
forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath,
and then says to myself, “All right, then, I’ll
GO to hell.”
—Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,1885
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way
before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second
into new uncharted seas. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the
Orient, 1935
before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second
into new uncharted seas. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the
Orient, 1935
he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down,
and hits on extraordinary discoveries. —Ralph Waldo Emerson,
“Cockayne,” English Traits, 1856
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