A Quote by Florence King

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King

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Florence King
American - Novelist
January 5, 1936 - January 6, 2016

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

My favorite was the Silver Surfer growing up. I just thought that his slug line, 'He who travels fastest, always travels alone,' always appealed to me as a kid.

Adrian Pasdar

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

Theodore Roosevelt

Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

Ella Maillart

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

Henry David Thoreau

I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.

Bobby Keys

Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.

Shams Tabrizi

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

Hernan Cortes

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

Hal Borland

As social media grew and people learned of our travels, my wife would get requests from friends for suggestions about their travels. So she would help them connect with the right people and set up the right trip.

Chris Pronger

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.