#traveller

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. ↗

— Michael Palin

#comes #i #i think #modern #now

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

#been #before #circumstances #dull #fabulous

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

#attentions #daily #earnest #falling #fit

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#chuck #i #light #things #traveller

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#great #i #i remember #like #more

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#classes #encountered #i #instruction #john

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

#barren #cases #consequence #death #dreadful

wherever you feel peacefulness, you might call it home ↗

— Windy Ariestanty

#life

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#does #going #good #know #perfect

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive