Quotes by Authors - Page 45

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
John Updike
Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.
Anonymous
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.
Mordecai Richler
When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.
Mark Twain
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
James Baldwin
For 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
Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
Jonathan Swift
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
Anonymous
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'
Anonymous
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
Henry David Thoreau
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
Christian Morgenstern
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
Fred Allen
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Mark Twain
It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!
Mirabeau
Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo
We are here today and gone tomorrow.
Anonymous
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
Oscar Wilde
A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.
Louis E. Thayer
Here's to your good health and your family's good health and may you all live long and prosper.
Washington Irving
A cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies.
Dowling Bartholomew
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine
Better late than never.
Livy
See Time has touched me gently in his race And left no odious furrows in my face.
George Grabbe
I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
Time is money.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
In time take time while time doth last for time Is no time when time is past.
Anonymous
Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.
Anonymous
No first step can be really great it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value not only of his cause but of himself.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
Joan Benoit Samuelson
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
Joanna Field
Human successes like human failures are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.
Patty H. Sampson
There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cellularly like a laborious mosaic.
Anaïs Nin
Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.
Marge Piercy
If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
Inspiration does not come like a blot nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
Brenda Euland
No matter how big and tough a problem may be get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something.
George F. Nordenholt
Great issues develop from small beginnings.
Norman Vincent Peale
It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it.
Dorothy Baker
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Haskins
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts sparked here and there by minor incidents warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places at different times the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.
Marilyn Ferguson
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale