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Quotes of the Day for 14 May 2004 - Travel

It was two hundred years ago today that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off from St. Louis to explore some of the huge area that Thomas Jefferson had acquired in the Louisiana Purchase the year before. I've just been on the road myself for a couple of days, and was off adventuring for a couple of days last week as well, so it seems that this would be a good time to use Travel as our theme.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
     - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
     - Eudora Welty, 1909 - 2001

When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
     - Helen Hayes, 1900 - 1993

A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.
     - Lao-Tzu

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
     - Loren Eiseley

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
     - Augustine of Hippo, 354 - 430

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