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Travel11 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt · 1822Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him. — Francis Bacon · 1625All 11 quotes →Human nature2 quotes
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. — Mark Twain · 1897A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain · 1897Law2 quotes
Necessity knows no law. — Mark Twain · 1869Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain · 1897Lawyers2 quotes
I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. — Jonathan Swift · 1726A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. — Samuel Johnson · 1773Moral principles2 quotes
Prosperity is the best protector of principle. — Mark Twain · 1897Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain · 1897Morality2 quotes
Prosperity is the best protector of principle. — Mark Twain · 1897Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain · 1897Purpose of travel2 quotes
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt · 1822For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879Tourism2 quotes
What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place. — Bill Bryson · 1991It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well. — Aldous Huxley · 1925Truth2 quotes
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. — Mark Twain · 1897Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain · 1897Adventure1 quote
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dark-times neither day nor night-the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they cast a mysterious shadow of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. — William Least Heat-Moon · 1982America and the UK1 quote
There is no such thing as "the Queen's English." The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares! — Mark Twain · 1897American West1 quote
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. — Bernard De Voto · 1943Appetite1 quote
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain · 1897Architecture1 quote
Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642Authenticity1 quote
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882Avant garde1 quote
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. — Mark Twain · 1869Being assertive1 quote
The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. — Mark Twain · 1897Benefits of aging1 quote
Why, sir, a man grows better humoured as he grows older. He improves by experience. When young, he thinks himself of great consequence, and every thing of importance. As he advances in life, he learns to think himself of no consequence, and little things of little importance; and so he becomes more patient, and better pleased. — Samuel Johnson · 1773Blasphemy1 quote
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. — Mark Twain · 1897Capitalism1 quote
No permanent elevation of a people can be effected without commerce. — David Livingstone · 1861Causes of crime1 quote
Necessity knows no law. — Mark Twain · 1869Certainty1 quote
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. — Laurens van der Post · 1958Cooking1 quote
My definition of Man is, "a Cooking Animal." The beasts have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook... Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats. — James Boswell · 1773Creativity1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Crime1 quote
Necessity knows no law. — Mark Twain · 1869Custom and convention1 quote
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain · 1897Dark side of human nature1 quote
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. — Mark Twain · 1897Delusion1 quote
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain · 1897Desire1 quote
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain · 1897Desperation1 quote
Necessity knows no law. — Mark Twain · 1869