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Vagabonding and Travel Quotes

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Dont take life too seriously…no one comes out alive – Elbert Hubbard

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving – Lao Tzu

He who knows that he has enough, will always have enough – Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth. – Buddha

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope – Edward Abbey

My greatest skill has been to want little – Henry David Thoreau

Always do what you are afraid to do – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

We will not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Elliot

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. – Pico Iyer

Not all those who wander are lost – JRR Tolkien

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there – Unknown

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles. – Tim Cahill

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty & well preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’ – Hunter S. Thompson

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling

And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran

The Famous Last Words of Famous People

Posted on November 20, 2010 by

This, is the last of earth. I am content. – Adams John Quincy

For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. – Bacon Sir Francis

Let’s roll. – Todd Beamer

Don’t die like I did. – George Best

Work hard to gain your own salvation. – Buddha

Hallo, the bow is up… I’m going… I’m on my back… I’ve gone. Oh. – Donald Campbell

Let not poor Nelly starve. – King Charles II

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way. – Erskine Childers

It’s better to burn out than to fade away. – Kurt Cobain

My design is to make what haste I can to be gone. – Oliver Cromwell

I do not believe in my death. – Salvador Dali

My God. What’s happened? – Diana, Princess of Wales

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire. (Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.) – Isadora Duncan

Bugger Bognor! – King George V

Mehr Licht! (More light!) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning – organize. – Joe Hill

On the contrary. – Henrik Ibsen

Be of good comfort Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out. – Hugh Latimer

Strike the tent. – Robert E. Lee

I’m shot. – John Lennon

I told you I was ill. – Spike Milligan

This hath not offended the king. – Thomas More

Thank God, I have done my duty. – Horatio Nelson

I am just going outside and may be some time. – Captain Lawrence Oates

What do I tell the pilot to do? – Barbara Olson

Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do! – Lord Henry Temple Palmerston

I believe that a life lived for music is an existence spent wonderfully, and this is what I have dedicated my life to. – Luciano Pavarotti

I think I could eat one of Bellamy’s veal pies. – William Pitt

Let me go to the house of the Father. – Pope John Paul II

I hope I haven’t bored you. – Elvis Presley

I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell. – Walter Ralegh

So little done, so much to do. – Cecil Rhodes

Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues. – Ken Saro-Wiwa

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance. – General John Sedgwick

“What is the answer?” No answer came. She laughed and said, “In that case what is the question?” – Gertrude Stein

If this is dying, then I don’t think much of it. – Lytton Strachey

Relax – This won’t hurt. – Hunter S. Thompson

One of us must go. – Oscar Wilde

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life. – Ludwig Wittgenstein