#traveller

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#arrival #artisans #assembled #dangerous #discontent

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

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. ↗

— Josh Billings

#expense #good #pay #repair #road

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

#attention #climates #different #distinctions #explore

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

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. ↗

— James Harrington

#first #historian #man #may #must

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#considered #country #everybody #foot #him